Magdeburg

Dom bei Nacht

Pearl of the Romanesque Road

Cultural tour to Magdeburg:

„Along the Romanesque Road“


-> Why you should travel to Magdeburg

-> Highlights

-> Travel excursions and ideas

-> Arriving


Magdeburg

Why you should travel to Magdeburg:

 
 

- Magdeburger Cathedral - the town's landmark
- Monastery of Our Lady

- 1,200-year-old Elbe-side city with a varied townscape
- "Green Citadel of magdeburg", the last project of Hundertwasser
- known as the
"pearl of the Romanesque Road"
- 20 gardens and parks

Highlights in Magdeburg:

2011
18.06.-24.06.  9th International Festival of Puppet Theatre (“Blickwechsel”)
25.06.  17. New Orleans Jazz-Festival
02.09.-04.09.  Kaiser-Otto-Fest (festival)
17.09.-24.09.  "Kaiser-Wetter" (literature festival)

Travel excursions and ideas: 

Art: Magdeburg Puppet Theatre, opera house

Architecture: "Green Citadel of magdeburg", the last project of Hundertwasser, Old Town Hall, Waterway Junction Magdeburg, Water saving lock and ship lift Rothensee

Historic sites: Randau stone-age building, Fürstenwall, Cultural History MuseumMuseum of Technology, Lukasklause with the Otto-von-Guericke Museum, Millennium Tower, Steamboat "Württemberg" - a museum ship, Art Museum in the Monastery Of Our Lady

Museen: Cultural History Museum, Museum of Technology, Lukasklause with the Otto-von-Guericke Museum, Millennium Tower, Steamboat "Württemberg" - a museum ship, Art Museum in the Monastery Of Our Lady

Castles, parks and gardens: Klosterbergegarten (oldest public garden in Germany), Elbauenpark, Herrenkrug Park, Zoologial Garden, Stadtpark Rotehorn, Garden Realm Dessau-Woerlitz (UNESCO)

Railway culture: Magdeburgerforth Station Museum, the Deutsche Bahn Museum in Halle

Industrial culture: Halloren Chocolate Factory in Halle (the oldest chocolate factory in Germany)

Sacred buildings: Magdeburger Cathedra, Monastery of Our Lady, St. John's Church, Wallonerkirche

Christmas: Christmas on the Old Market

Excursions from Magdeburg: Wittenberg, town of Martin Luther incl. castle and castle church (where Luther pinned his thesis to the door), the Town Church of St. Mary (mother church of the Reformation), the Cranach Buildings and the Melanchton House, wine-growing region of Saale-Unstrut with Naumburg incl. Naumburg Cathedral with its world-famous founder figures and Freyburg incl. Rotkäppchen champagne cellars

Arriving:

Anreise per Flugzeug Leipzig/Halle airport (approx. 75 miles),  Hannover airport (approx. 95 miles), Berlin international airport approx. 100 miles)
Anreise per Bus/Pkw via the A 2 (Hannover-Berlin) and the motorway A 14 (Magdeburg-Nossen)
Anreise per Bahn long-distance connection to major German cities, arrival into Magdeburg mainstation (city centre)

 

 

 

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