Places to visit in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
10 places to visit in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Bauhaus Sites in Weimar and Dessau, Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, Luther Memorials in Wittenberg and Eisleben and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Saxony-Anhalt volume.
6 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 2 Famous places to visit · 2 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Saxony-Anhalt (6)
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Bauhaus Sites in Weimar and Dessau
A group of buildings in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau associated with the Bauhaus school of design, founded by Walter Gropius in 1919. The Dessau building of 1926 is its best known work, with glass walls and workshops that shaped modern architecture.
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Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm
A chain of English style gardens, lakes and small palaces along the Elbe between Dessau and Wörlitz, created by Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz in the late 18th century. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an early model for landscape gardening in Germany.
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Luther Memorials in Wittenberg and Eisleben
Sites linked to Martin Luther in Wittenberg and Eisleben, including the Luther House, Melanchthon's house and the Castle Church with its doors. Luther is said to have posted his 95 theses in Wittenberg in 1517, and he died in Eisleben in 1546.
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Naumburg Cathedral
A late Romanesque and early Gothic cathedral in Naumburg on the Saale, built mainly in the 13th century. Its west choir holds twelve life sized founder figures, including the famous statue of Uta. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Quedlinburg Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town
A medieval town at the foot of the Harz with more than 1,300 timber framed houses and a Romanesque church on a castle hill. Henry the Fowler was buried here in 936. The whole town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Wörlitz Palace
A pale neoclassical country house in the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, built from 1769 to 1773 for Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau. It was among the first buildings of its style in Germany and sits beside a small lake.
Famous places to visit in Saxony-Anhalt (2)
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Brocken
The highest peak of the Harz at 1,141 metres, a bare granite summit often wrapped in fog. In German legend witches gather here on Walpurgis Night, and a steam railway runs to the top.
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Harz
A highland area in northern Germany, spreading across Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. It is a landscape of forests, granite outcrops and old mining towns, with narrow gauge steam trains running to the Brocken, its highest summit.
Hidden gems in Saxony-Anhalt (2)
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Magdeburg Cathedral
Officially the Cathedral of Saints Maurice and Catherine, a Lutheran cathedral and the oldest Gothic cathedral in Germany. It was the proto-cathedral of the former Prince-Archbishopric of Magdeburg. Work began in 1209, and its two towers stand about 100 metres high above the Elbe river in the centre of the city.
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Wernigerode Castle
A schloss in the Harz mountains above the town of Wernigerode. The present building was finished in the late 19th century and resembles Neuschwanstein, though its foundations are much older. It sits on a hill above the town and houses a museum of 19th century life, with sweeping views across the Harz.
Collecting in Saxony-Anhalt
What are the best places to visit in Saxony-Anhalt?
LOQAH lists 10 places in Saxony-Anhalt. The best known include Bauhaus Sites in Weimar and Dessau, Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, Luther Memorials in Wittenberg and Eisleben, Naumburg Cathedral and Quedlinburg Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Saxony-Anhalt?
10, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Saxony-Anhalt?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Saxony-Anhalt before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Saxony-Anhalt and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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