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Tourism has played an important role in
Buntenbock for a good 100 years. In the early days it was advertised as a healthy place to recover from illness due to its mountain air. Buntenbock lay on important transport routes and was traditionally a village of carters, who mainly worked for the mines.
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that passes nearby. The village has a small spa park where, from April to
September, there is a village market every fortnight on a Wednesday. In winter there is tobogganing and cross-country skiing on Buntenbock's local mountain, the Ziegenberg.
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goat's cheese. In the area around
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The keeping of domestic animals, particularly horses and goats, stems from that time. In the cheese dairy of
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Official website of the
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