Romanesque Road

Stiftskirche Quedlinburg Schloßberg
The "Romanesque Road" links 88 important medieval buildings in 73 towns dating from the period between 950 and 1250.

The "Romanesque Road" links 88 important medieval buildings in 73 locations dating from the period between 950 and 1250. In the form of an eight - with Magdeburg at the centre - the variety of buildings - cathedrals, churches, monasteries, castles, fortresses and houses - and historical insights into their time are linked over a length of more than 1,000 km.
As part of the European cultural route TRANSROMANICA, the "Romanesque Road" runs through Saxony-Anhalt. Established in 1993, it is one of the most successful tourist routes in Germany.
The southern route of the Romanesque Road features important buildings from the Romanesque period in the ancestral home of the Ottonians, who particularly characterised this region of central Germany in the Middle Ages. The cathedrals of Merseburg, Halberstadt and Naumburg, as well as the collegiate church of Quedlinburg, are home to outstanding cathedral treasures.
Among the treasures of Romanesque architecture in Quedlinburg are the collegiate church of St Servatii, the Wipertiikirche and the collegiate church of St Cyriakus in Gernrode.
Day trips to the Salle-Unstrut region allow you to explore Romanesque treasures such as the Naumburg Cathedral of St Peter and Pau, the Neuenburg Castle in Freyburg/Unstrut and the Rudelsburg Castle in Bad Kösen.
On the northern route, brick buildings take centre stage, such as the Premonstratensian monastery of St. Marien Nikolai in Jerichow - considered to be the oldest brick building in Germany - and the parish church of St. Petri in Leitzkau.

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