Quedlinburg
King Henry & the Finkenherd
700 years ago, your visit to the UNESCO World Heritage Site Quedlinburg would not have gone unnoticed. Watchtowers and city walls safeguarded the cobbled old town with its impressive timber-frame architecture. In the climatically favoured location of Henry the Fowler’s coronation palatinate, you are surrounded by history wherever you walk. According to legend, Duke Henry of Saxony was offered the German crown while he was out fixing his birding nets.
Timber-frame buildings from five different centuries are the UNESCO World Heritage Site’s trademark. At the centre of Germany’s largest heritage area, the Renaissance town hall with the Roland statue has pride of place. Many of the winding alleyways lined by flower-decorated timber-frame houses lead to the castle hill. Much awaits discovery along the way. The Stiftskirche St. Servatius on the castle hill houses the cathedral treasure and was the site of splendid Easter celebrations in Ottonian times. The highly symbolic cathedral treasure, which in the confusion of the post-war period had left the country, was returned to Quedlinburg in 1994. Proudly on show is also the oeuvre of painter Lyonel Feininger and, at the Klopstockhaus, the personalities of 18th-century Quedlinburg.
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A comprehensive event calendar with annual festivals such as the Quedlinburg Summer of Music will accompany you through the year.
Tourist Information Quedlinburg
Markt 4, 06484 Quedlinburg
Tel. +49 3946 905624
www.quedlinburg-info.de
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