The Municipal Museums of Quedlinburg present a new exhibition, “The Ideal Woman- The Dramatic 18th Century in the Imperial Ladies’ Collegiate Secular Convent of Quedlinburg.”

A dusting of snow on the thousand-year-old cobblestone paving. Tempting smells of Christmas wafting over ancient walls and through winding streets draw the visitor ever deeper into the town. Angel wings flutter past weathered house-fronts, accompanied by the whisper of a winter wind. It is Advent – Advent in Quedlinburg.

Situated on a sandstone cliff, the more than a thousand year old Romanesque collegiate church towers as an imposing landmark over the city.

The Romanesque Route offers everyone who follows it fascinating insights into a bygone era. It extends for more than 1,000 kilometers- divided into a northern and a southern route- throughout the state of Saxony Anhalt. Witnesses in stone to political upheavals of the epoch have survived the centuries in Quedlinburg, a town which lies on the Romanesque Route. Discover the Finkenherd, where Henry the Fowler, the first German king, received news of his election; visit the collegiate church St. Servatius, which is one the most significant examples of high Romanesque architecture in Germany and more.