14 Facts About Quedlinburg

Quedlinburg is a town situated just north of the Harz mountains, in the district of Harz in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Town of Quedlinburg is known to have existed since at least the early 9th century, when there was a settlement known as Gross Orden on the eastern bank of the River Bode.

The main task of this collegiate foundation, Quedlinburg Abbey, was to pray for the memory of King Henry and the rulers who came after him.

Quedlinburg castle complex, founded by King Henry I and built up by Emperor Otto I in 936, was an imperial Pfalz of the Saxon emperors.

Quedlinburg was forced to leave the Hanseatic League and was protected by the Electorate of Saxony.

Related searches

Quedlinburg Abbey contested Brandenburg-Prussia's claims throughout the 18th century, however.

The abbey was secularized in 1802 during the German Mediatisation, and Quedlinburg passed to the Kingdom of Prussia as part of the Principality of Quedlinburg.

Quedlinburg was administered within Bezirk Halle while part of the Communist East Germany from 1949 to 1990.

Today, Quedlinburg is a center of restoration of Fachwerk houses.

Quedlinburg is the setting for the acclaimed 2016 Frantz, serving as a quintessential small German town in the wake of WWI, home to the family who is reeling from the death of a son in the war.

Quedlinburg has an oceanic climate resulting from prevailing westerlies, blowing from the high-pressure area in the central Atlantic towards Scandinavia.

Old town of Quedlinburg is among the largest in Germany with a size of around 90 hectares.

Quedlinburg is one of the best-preserved medieval and Renaissance towns in Europe, having escaped major damage in World War II.

Quedlinburg is connected by regional buses to the surrounding villages and small towns.