Abbenrode is a village and a former municipality in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

[1] The village is situated north of the Harz mountain range, near the Ecker creek and the border with the state of Lower Saxony.

The Abbenrode manor, possibly named after a first settler called Abbo, arose in the medieval Duchy of Saxony and was first mentioned as Abbenrot in an 1129 deed issued by King Lothair III of Germany.

The abbey was devastated during the 1525 German Peasants' War and finally dissolved under the rule of the Protestant Halberstadt administrator Sigismund of Brandenburg in 1554.

After World War II the village became isolated and decayed owing to its location close to the inner-German border.