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Half-timbered idylls in the Harz Mountains

City tour to Wernigerode, from 165 € p.p.

Cultural tour to Wernigerode:

“Evening outlines, narrow gauge-railways and roses”

-> Why you should travel to Wernigerode

-> Highlights

-> Travel ideas and excursions

-> Arriving

Why you should travel to Wernigerode:

- unspoilt, romantic natural landscapes and picturesque half-timbered buildings
- tidy old part of this town
- most exceptional buildings include the Town Hall and the neo-Gothic Castle
- half-timbered medieval houses
- town’s palace
- highest mountain peak in the north of Germany, the 1142 metre high “Brocken”
- Harz Mountain narrow-gauge railway
-  “Hochharz” national park
- bottle of “Schierker Feuerstein” firewater

Highlights in Wernigerode:

Travel ideas and excursions: 

Landscape and nature: Harz Mountains National Park and the Brocken mountain, Südharz Karst Country Biosphere Reserve, Rübeland stalactite caves, Hexentanzplatz Thale (“where the witches dance”, incl. cable car ride), Harz Mountain Theatre Thale

Railway culture: Harz narrow-gauge railway, including the Selketalbahn, Harzquerbahn and Brockenbahn lines, plus the Rübelandbahn line

Art: arts and crafts centre, temporary exhibitions in the “Frühlingsbau” at Wernigerode Castle

Music: Wernigerode Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Michael Prätorius and John Cage organs in Halberstadt

Castles, parks and gardens: Wernigerode Castle and Gardens, Blankenburg Castle and its Baroque gardens, Sangerhausen Europa-Rosarium (the world’s largest rose collection), the Brocken Garden (alpine botanical garden)

Historic sites: Monument to the Battle of the Nations, “Runde Ecke” Memorial Museum (incl. Stasi bunker), Museum of City History, St. Nicholas’s Church (starting point of the peaceful revolution in the GDR)

Architecture: The German Half-Timbered House Route, Quedlinburg and its 1300 half-timbered buildings, the Romanesque Road

Historical sites: The “Green Belt” nature conservation project along the former inner-German border, the Kyffhäuser memorial

Industrial culture: the Argenta chocolate factory, Harzer Baumkuchen Friedrich (a producer of the cake specialty “Baumkuchen”, incl. an exhibition of the baking process)

Sacred buildings: Wooden stave church in Goslar-Hahnenklee, Collegiate Church St. Servatius with its treasures (some of the most significant in Germany), the treasures of Halberstadt Cathedral (some of the most significant in Europe), Gernrode Collegiate Church St. Cyriakus

Arriving:

	Leipzig/Halle Airport (approx. 84 miles), Hanover Airport (approx. 81 miles), Berlin Airport (approx. 149 miles)
	via the A2 (Oberhausen-Berlin), A7 (Ellund-Füssen), A14 (Magdeburg-Dresden) and A38 (Göttingen-Leipzig) motorways and the B6 and B82 major roads
	long-distance trains to Magdeburg, Braunschweig, Hanover or Halle/Leipzig, then change to regional services to Wernigerode.

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