Saxony-Anhalt - 59 Attractions You Must Visit

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About Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia, and Lower Saxony. Almost all of Saxony-Anhalt lies within the North European Plain, and its landscapes exhibit impacts from successive eras of glaciation. One of the beautiful states in Germany which were blessed with natural beauty.

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List of Attractions in Saxony-Anhalt

Naumburger Dom

Naumburger Dom is the former cathedral of the Naumburg diocese and largely dates from the first half of the 13th century. He is one of the most important buildings of the late Romanesque in Saxony-Anhalt, is a station on the Romanesque Road and since 2018 UNESCO - World Heritage Site. The Naumburg Cathedral is a so-called double choir - d. H. with a choir on both narrow sides.

Rosstrappe

Rosstrappe

Outdoors- Other

Mountain Peaks

The Rosstrappe is 403 m above sea level high granite rock above the Bodetal in the Harz Mountains. It is located opposite the Hexentanzplatz in the corridor of the town of Thale in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt. It can be reached from Thale, Treseburg, or Wienrode on a road, on foot, or from Thale with a chair lift. The mountain hotel of the same name with a panoramic terrace has been located on the rock since the middle of the 19th century. The mountain station of the chair lift is clos

Rotehorn Park

The Rotehornpark, also known as Stadtpark Rotehorn, is the largest city park in Magdeburg with an area of ​​200 hectares. The park is located on an Elbe island and is part of the Garden Dreams Saxony-Anhalt network. It is located on the Elbe island of Werder and can be reached from the city center via the bridge train with two tram lines, one bus line and by car.

Rudelsburg

Rudelsburg

Iconic Buildings

Old Ruins

The Rudelsburg is a hilltop castle above Saaleck in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt. It is about 85 meters above the south bank of the Saale on a rocky ridge made of shell limestone. The castle was probably built by the bishops of Naumburg in the High Middle Ages to secure trade routes such as the Via Regia with the Saale bridge in Bad Kösen. At times the castle served as a residence for various noble families until it was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and then fell into disrepair.

Sandhöhlen

Sandhöhlen are two sand caves known individually as the Große Sandhöhle and Kleine Sandhöhle. These are a natural monument in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt. It is believed that there was a Germanic Thing place there in prehistoric times. The very fine quartz sand extracted here was previously used as scouring sand and as grit to clean floorboards. From hiking enthusiasts, this place received the title “Most beautiful stamp place of 2009”.

Schloss Neuenburg

Schloss Neuenburg

Iconic Buildings

Old Ruins

The Neuenbürg Castle is located in Baden-Wuerttemberg in the region Northern Black Forest , between Karlsruhe and Stuttgart . Its location on a mountain of the Enz above the city of Neuenbürg is striking. The name Neuenburg derives from German for "new castle". From 1656 until 1746 it was a secondary residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Weissenfels.

State Museum of Prehistory Halle (Saale)

"The State Museum of Prehistory in Halle is the archaeological museum of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Founded in Naumburg in 1819, it was moved to Halle in 1825, and within Halle to its present location in 1918. Its collection, comprising more than 15 million items, is among the most extensive and important in Germany. Among its most famous exhibits are the Nebra sky disk, which has been part of the permanent exhibition since 2008, the Eulau family graves, and the Hornhausen rider stele.

Stiftskirche St. Servatius

The former collegiate church of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg - also known as St. Servatii or Quedlinburg Cathedral - is a monument of high Romanesque architecture dedicated to Saints Dionysius and Servatius . The three-aisled basilica , essentially built between 1070 and 1129, was the church of the Quedlinburg women's monastery.

Süßer See

Süßer See

Lake/ River/ Ponds

The Süße See is a lake in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. He is fed by the evil seven, which leaves him near Seeburg towards Bindersee. Since the salty lake was drained at the end of the 19th century, of which only Kerner and Bindersee remained, the Süße See has been the largest natural standing water in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz. Contrary to what the name suggests, the lake water is salty, as in the other existing or drained Mansfeld lakes.

Teufelsmauer

Teufelsmauer

Outdoors- Other

The Teufelsmauer is a rock formation of the hard sandstone of the Upper Cretaceous in the northern part of the Harz Przedgórze in the center of Germany. This rock face runs from Blankenburg via Weddersleben and Rieder to Ballenstedt. Many legends and myths have been woven in order to try to explain the unusual rock formation. It was placed under protection as early as 1833 and, in 1852, by the head of the district authority in order to prevent quarrying of the much sought-after sandstone.

Titan RT

Titan RT

Bridges

Titan RT is a 483 m long pedestrian suspension bridge opened in 2017 in the Harz Mountains. The rope bridge is located in the areas of Oberharz am Brocken and Thale in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt, the border of which runs through the middle of the bridge. The bridge hangs over the part of the reservoir of the Wendefurth dam that joins the air side of the Rappbodetalsperre dam.

Unicorn Cave

One of the largest show caves in the West Harz. A karst cave developed in dolomite strata that is part of the Zechstein. It was made accessible to visitors by the construction of an entrance gallery. Since then 270 metres of the total length of 610 metres have been opened up as a show cave. The Unicorn Cave is one of the three information centres of the Harz - Brunswick Land - Eastphalia National Geopark.

Wendefurth Dam

The Wendefurth Dam near Wendefurth in the Harz is one of the dams downstream of the Rappbode Dam, that provides flood protection as well as impounding the River Bode to provide the lower reservoir for the Wendefurth Power Station. In addition it is a bathing lake and also supports fish farming.

Wernigerode Castle

Wernigerode Castle

Iconic Buildings

Old Ruins

Originally a medieval fortress, which was intended as a secure stop along the way of German emperors during their hunting trips to the Harz. This romantic baroque castle that towering 300 ft above the town of Wernigerode. It is open to the public and one of the most frequently visited in Saxony-Anhalt. One of the beautiful locations in this area which is historically important too.

Wörlitzer Park

The Wörlitzer Park, also Wörlitzer Anlagen, is a landscape garden in Wörlitz in the district of Wittenberg. It belongs to today's UNESCO World Heritage Site Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreich, which was founded in the second half of the 18th century under the reign of Prince Leopold III. Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau was created. The park was created on Lake Wörlitzer, a branch of the Elbe, and belongs to the Garden Dreams Saxony-Anhalt network.

Wurmberg

Wurmberg

1 Day Treks

Mountain Peaks

At 971 m above sea level, the Wurmberg is the second highest mountain in the Harz and the highest in Lower Saxony. Its summit is located due south of the Brocken and roughly 400 m south of the state border with Saxony-Anhalt. The two mountains are separated by the valley of the Kalte Bode, which in this area is about 660 m above NN.

Zoo Magdeburg

The Magdeburg Zoological Garden, or Magdeburg Zoo for short, is a zoological garden in Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt. The 16-hectare zoo in Magdeburg is visited by around 340,000 visitors every year. It has a parkland and a large playground for children. In 2016, around 1,400 animals belonging to over 210 species or races lived in the zoo.

Zoologischer Garten Halle (Bergzoo)

The Halle Zoo, also called the Halle Mountain Zoo, was laid out in 1901 on the 130-meter-high Reilsberg in the north of Halle (Saale) in the Giebichenstein district. With a total area of ​​nine hectares, it is one of the smaller zoos. Due to its structure in several levels around the mountain, the terrain appears to be much larger than it actually is.

Zwenkauer See

Zwenkauer See

Lake/ River/ Ponds

The Zwenkauer See is an artificially created lake approx. 12 km south of Leipzig city ​​center in the heart of the Leipzig New Lakeland. It emerged from a remaining open-pit mine, which was released for tourist use on May 9, 2015. With an area of ​​9.7 km² and a circumference of 22 km, the Zwenkau Lake is the largest lake in the Leipzig New Lakeland.

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