Bad Blankenburg ( ) is a spa town in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 6 km southwest of Rudolstadt, and 37 km southeast of Erfurt.
It is most famous for being the location of the first kindergarten of Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel, in 1837.
In the nineteenth century, Bad Blankenburg was part of the small principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
Bad Blankenburg is the headquarter of Deutsche Evangelische Allianz, the net of copperation of most Protestant churches in Germany.
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“Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but they are without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)