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8 Querfurt
Road map D4. * 11,000. @
n Markt 14 (034771-237 99) _
Brunnenfest (Jun). ∑ querfurt.de
The narrow streets of Querfurt
are crammed with timber-frame
houses, and the giant Schloß
towers over the town square
with its Renaissance town hall.
The castle’s present form is the
result of Renaissance refurb-
ishments, but it maintains
Renaissance residence in Merseburg many Romanesque features,
such as the 11th-century
from previous Romanesque 7 Merseburg donjon (keep), known as
churches. Nearby is the Roter Road map D4. * 40,000. £ @ Dicker Heinrich (Fat Henry)
Turm (Red Tower), an 84-m n Burgstraße 5 (03461-21 41 70) _ and a 12th-century church.
(276 ft) tall belfry, built in 1418– Schloßfest (Jun). ∑ merseburg.de Also worth seeing is the burial
1506. The house at Nikolaistraße chapel, the Baroque Fürstenhaus
5, the birthplace of Georg The first sight visitors see as (ducal house) and a small
Friedrich Händel, now houses a they arrive in Merseburg is the museum, situated in the
small museum, the Händel- Domburg – a vast complex of for mer armoury and granary.
Haus. In Dom platz stands the buildings spiked with towers,
early-Gothic Dom, built in 1280– consisting of a cathedral and 9 Naumburg
1331 by the Domin icans and residences. The cathedral is not
restored between 1525 and uniform in style; it includes Road map D4. * 30,500. £ @
1530 in Renaissance style. some Romanesque elements n Markt 6 (03445-27 31 25).
Halle has some other (the eastern section and twin _ Hussiten-Kirsch-Fest (Jun).
medieval churches, including towers in the west) erected in ∑ naumburg-tourismus.de
the late-Gothic Moritzkirche the 11th and 12th centuries,
built in the latter part of the and the late-Gothic triple-nave The town’s star attraction is the
14th century. It is also worth main body, which was built in Dom (cathedral of Saints Peter
visiting the Kunststiftung des 1510–17. All that remains of the and Paul see pp154–5). There is
Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, housed older, early-Romanesque a late-Gothic Rathaus (town
in the refurbished Citadel structure is the crypt, hall), restored in Renaissance
building known as Moritzburg underneath the presbytery. The style, and the main square is
and built during 1484-1503. On cathedral contains remarkable surrounded by quaint houses.
the outskirts of town stands Gothic and Renaissance Further attractions include the
Burg Giebichenstein, the features, as well as numerous Marientor gate (1455–6) with
former castle residence of the sarcophagi of bishops, such as the puppet theatre, and the
Magdeburg bishops. The upper that of Thilo von Troth (1470). Gothic Stadtkirche St Wenzel
part of the castle remains in The chapter buildings house a (Church of St Wenceslas). The
ruins, while the lower part library with precious manuscripts, latter has two paintings by
houses an Arts & Crafts College. including the Merseburg Bible Lucas Cranach the Elder as
The Landesmuseum für (from around 1200). Adjacent to well as the 18th-century organ
Vorgeschichte (State Museum the cathedral is a three-wing that Johann Sebastian Bach
of Prehistory) has more than 11 Renaissance-style Schloß. played on. Friedrich Nietz sche,
million exhibits. Its centre piece Magnificent portals and an the philosopher, spent his
is the Nebra Sky Disc, a 3,600- attractive oriel in the castle’s childhood at No. 18 Weingarten,
year-old bronze disc re cog nized west wing are noteworthy. now a small museum.
by UNESCO as the earliest
known image of the night sky.
E Kunststiftung des Landes
Sachsen-Anhalt
Friedemann-Bach-Platz 5. Tel (0345)
21 25 90. Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun.
& free last Sun of month.

E Landesmuseum für
Vorgeschichte
Richard-Wagner-Straße 9. Tel (0345)
52 47 30. Open Tue–Sun. & Gothic stone retable of the main altar in Naumburg Dom

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