Wednesday 15th September 2010

Itinerary

Day Five

Church of St. Severatius, Quedlinburg

Luther’s house in Wittenberg

Quedlinburg, a Unesco World Heritage Site, is acknowledged as one of the best preserved medieval and renaissance towns in Europe with its medieval town plan and walls. It has a full array of Romanesque and half timbered houses plus the fascinating church of St. Severatius (pictured) on the impressive castle mount. It also has many interesting legends dating over many centuries.

Quedlinburg was founded as a fortress by Henry the Fowler about 922. The abbey of Quedlinburg (pictured) was planned by Henry the Fowler, although its actual foundation is due to his son Otto the Great. The abbesses, who were frequently members of the imperial house, the second of them being Otto's daughter Matilda, ranked among the princes of the empire, and had no ecclesiastical superior except the Pope.

In the mid-afternoon we will travel by train to Wittenberg and to our hotel for the next two nights.