Bad Sachsa

What Bad Sachsa does

Stadt Bad Sachsa is a municipal government (Gebietskörperschaft / juristische Person des öffentlichen Rechts) in the Harz region of Lower Saxony, Germany. Granted city rights in 1525 and marking its 500-year anniversary in 2025/2026, the town operates under Mayor Daniel Quade and provides statutory public services to residents and visitors including administration, utilities oversight (gas, electricity, water), waste disposal, urban planning, education, healthcare access, cultural institutions, sports facilities, and tourism infrastructure. The city markets itself as a family-friendly spa town (Kurort) and is developing a new residential area with up to 39 building plots at 99 EUR/sqm to attract and retain families.

The city's digital product surface consists of a municipal website (bad-sachsa.com) and supporting civic-service modules: the Ratsinformationssystem council information system (effective January 1, 2024), an Online-Service portal for administrative transactions, a Veranstaltungskalender regional event calendar, the Stadtspiegel digital newsletter, the Bürgerbroschüre citizen brochure, the Ferienpass children's holiday program, and the Barriere-Melden accessibility reporting tool. The technology stack is conventional: Google Maps API for cartography, Survey123/ArcGIS for the renewable energy site submission tool, and compliance with BITV 2.0 (partial) and DSGVO/GDPR. No API, SDK, or AI/ML capabilities are disclosed.

The business model is non-commercial: revenue derives from German municipal tax allocations, property taxes, regulated utility/wastewater fees (collected on the city's behalf by partner Harz Energie GmbH & Co. KG), and state grants. Real estate services for the new residential development are routed through Sparkasse Osterode am Harz. The entity has no parent company, no private ownership, no funding rounds, and operates on a small internal staff of approximately 10 employees. This profile is not suited to traditional PE/VC/M&A investment analysis frameworks, as the entity is a publicly owned local government, not a commercial enterprise.

Name

Bad Sachsa

Legal name

Stadt Bad Sachsa

Website

https://bad-sachsa.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stadt Bad Sachsa is a municipal government in the Lower Saxony Harz region of Germany, providing statutory public services — utilities oversight, administration, education, waste management, and tourism — to residents and visitors of this 500-year-old spa town.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bad Sachsa

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Core offering

Stadt Bad Sachsa is a municipal government entity delivering public administration services to residents, businesses, and visitors of Bad Sachsa in the Harz region of Lower Saxony, Germany. Its core offering comprises civic administration, urban planning and building permits, public utilities coordination (gas, electricity, water), waste disposal services, education and youth services, healthcare and social services, cultural and sports facilities, and tourism infrastructure. The official city website (bad-sachsa.com) and its integrated digital portals function as the primary engagement channel for these services.

Product overview

Bad Sachsa's official digital presence consists of a municipal website with integrated civic services. The core offering is the city website (bad-sachsa.com) which serves as the primary portal for citizen engagement, providing access to administrative services, local news via the Stadtspiegel newsletter, and the Bürgerbroschüre citizen brochure. Supporting services include the Veranstaltungskalender event calendar, the Ratsinformationssystem council information system, the Online-Service portal for administrative transactions, and the Ferienpass children's holiday program. The Barriere-Melden service allows citizens to report accessibility issues.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Official City Website and Online-Service Portal (bad-sachsa.com) The official municipal website of Bad Sachsa providing digital citizen services, administrative information, event calendars, construction/development area listings, and access to administrative forms and official online processes for residents, businesses, and visitors.
• Ratsinformationssystem (Council Information System) Political council information system providing public access to meeting agendas, minutes, and council documents, supporting municipal government transparency for citizens and stakeholders.
• Veranstaltungskalender (Regional Event Calendar) Regional event calendar system for Bad Sachsa and surrounding municipalities, allowing event submission and search functionality for residents and visitors seeking local events and activities.

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Sparkasse Osterode am Harz - Filiale Bad SachsaminorOthersSparkasse serves as a contact point for real estate matters related to the new residential development area. Jörg Draffehn from Sparkasse handles inquiries about the building plots in the Sportplatz Steinstraße development.
• Harz Energie GmbH & Co. KGminorOthersHarz Energie has been contracted by the city to calculate and collect wastewater fees (Abwassergebühren) on behalf of the municipality.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Samtgemeinde Walkenried: A collective-municipality structure in the same Harz region that handles shared administrative functions for several member communities. Relevant as a regional governance peer for understanding shared-service and outsourcing models.

Direct peers

• Ilsenburg (Harz): A Harz municipality in Saxony-Anhalt of comparable population scale with a similar tourism-and-residential economic base. Provides a peer benchmark for small-town council information systems and digital service portals.
• Ellrich: A small Harz-border town in Thuringia adjacent to Bad Sachsa. Comparable in scale and administrative footprint, and useful as a cross-state peer for benchmarking municipal revenue mix and demographic trends.
• Oberharz am Brocken: A consolidated Harz municipality in Saxony-Anhalt formed from several smaller towns including the former Sankt Andreasberg. Provides a useful comparison for governance scale, tourism integration, and demographic challenge management in a peripheral Harz setting.
• Bad Lauterberg im Harz: A neighboring 'Bad' (spa) town in the Harz region of Lower Saxony, comparable in scale, demographic profile, and tourism-dependent economic base. Both municipalities deliver similar municipal services and compete for visitors in the southern Harz.
• Walkenried: A small Südharz municipality in Lower Saxony adjacent to Bad Sachsa, with similar population scale, rural character, and reliance on tourism and regional cooperation. Comparable as a near-neighbor peer for benchmarking municipal-service delivery.
• Bad Harzburg: A 'Bad' spa town on the northern edge of the Harz with a similar municipal-service mandate and tourism-led identity. Offers a directly comparable mix of Kurbeitrag-financed services, council information systems, and residential development programs.
• Braunlage: A Harz-region tourism municipality in Lower Saxony with a comparable population size and similar mix of winter/summer tourism, municipal administration, and Bau- und Gewerbegebiete offerings.

Broad incumbents

• Goslar: A larger Harz-region city in Lower Saxony that provides a comparable urban-governance model for a tourist-historic town, with a more extensive e-government offering and council information system that benchmarks what Bad Sachsa's digital roadmap could evolve into.
• Landkreis Göttingen: The county authority that includes Bad Sachsa. Provides the higher-level administrative and supervisory framework, comparable as a structural peer for understanding funding flows, planning oversight, and inter-municipal service cooperation in the region.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bad-sachsa

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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