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Welcome to Quedlinburg –
A Cradle of European History!
In the historic
town-centre of our World Cultural Heritage City
lodged in a splendid complex of baroque half-timbered buildings
You will find
The Beautiful Hotel on Quedlinburg‘s Market-Square
Comfortable,
individually styled rooms – Hotel-Parking
Wine-cellar-Restaurant in historic sandstone vaults
good cuisine - good wine (German, French, Spanish, Italian)
dreamy inner courtyard
Your hosts:
The Vester Family
Markt 13-14 06484 Quedlinburg
Tel. (49)(0)3946-96300 Fax (49)(0)3946-963036
eMail: theophano@t-online.de
THEOPHANO – our
name
The Theophano is named after the Byzantine princess who in 972 was married
to the Saxon crown pretendant Otto the Second. After his early death she took the reigns
of government . Until her death in 991 she ruled in Germany and Italy (later called the
Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation) – and ruled wisely and sucessfully, so that
even after more than 1000 years she can still be regarded as an early visionary of a
peacefully united Europe.
With her imperial household Empress Theophano resided in Quedlinburg at least fourteen times – mostly during the Easter season. Her son Otto III succeeded her to become the fifth Saxon-German ruler. In fulfilling Theophano’s wish Otto accorded market-, minting-, and taxing-rights to the Quedlinburg principality which remained the seat of a worldly college for lady-members of the Ottonic and succeeding imperial families. Presumably, without Theophano the Quedlinburg market-square would not exist today.
