heritage since 2014, is still cultivated. Winter market The former railway station of Altenau, a wooden building dating from 1914 Personals Wilhelm Knop Adolf Knop Hermine Hartleben Politics Town council 2006 local elections: SPD: 7 seats (54.16%) CDU: 6 seats (45.84%) Former Mayors 1856 Tolle (first mayor) 1878 Rössing 1879 Jordan 1890 Hodann 1894 Aderhold 1896 king 1904 Schmidt 1908 (February 17) Dr. Angel 1913 angel 1915 custom 1918 Unoccupied 1919 Cooper 1931 Breyel 1946-1948 Tosch 1948-1953 Heins 1950 Heins (Mayor), Breyel (City Manager) 1953–1956 squire 1956–1971 forester 1971–1976 Biegholdt 1976-1981 Loikkasek 1981–1986 Biegholdt 1986–1991 Schierloh 1991-2005 Gerhard Lindemann since 2005 Alexander Ehrenberg Religion The Protestant majority of the population is organized in the parish of St. Nikolai, the center of which is the St. Nikolai Church, built in 1669 in the center of Altenau. The parish today belongs to the Clausthal-Zellerfeld parish, which also includes the St. Petrus Chapel in Schulenberg . The Catholic St. Oliver Church from 1979 is located on the Glockenberg. Today the church belongs to the parish of Clausthal-Zellerfeld. Economy and Infrastructure The Altenauer brewery, formerly Paul Kolberg GmbH & Co. KG , was taken over by the Klostergutsbrauerei Wöltingerode GmbH with effect from August 1, 2012 . Its sole shareholder is the General Hanover Monastery Fund, represented by the Hanover Monastery Chamber . The brewery currently has an annual output of around 8,000 hectoliters of beer, which is brewed in eight variants, and 3,000 hectoliters of non-alcoholic beverages. There are also numerous companies that can be attributed to tourism, such as hotels, guest houses, holiday apartments, restaurants and the corresponding retail trade. In Altenau you will find a Police and Firestation, a Doctors Office, Drugstore. Traffic Altenau is on the federal road 498, which leads from Goslar to Osterode . Via an approximately eight kilometer long and up to nine percent steep country road, the "Steile Wand", you can access the B 4 in Torfhaus . Buses of the regional bus Braunschweig (RBB) and the HarzBus drive to Goslar, Clausthal-Zellerfeld and Sankt Andreasberg . Altenau is also the end point of a long-distance bus line from Berlin, the so-called BEX bus line. Until 1976, Altenau station was the end of the Innerstetalbahn, the other end of which was in Langelsheim . In 1977 a last train ran the route. This route was closed for cost reasons. The tracks have been completely removed, the route