Quedlinburg is listed by Unesco as a World Cultural Heritage site. This includes almost the whole present town of Quedlinburg which thus stands alone as Germany‘s largest protected historical town-area. Dating back to Theophano’s rule and that of her son Otto III, Quedlinburg throughout the early middle-ages enjoyed important market-privileges. These made its merchants equal to their competitors in Magdeburg, Mainz, and Cologne (Köln).

Quedlinburg thus developped to become one of the most beautiful towns of Germany with more than one thousand timber-framed buildings still existing today. These, and the unchanged lay of the ancient streets, crowned by the castle and the collegiate church of St.Servatii with its world-famous treasure, give the visitor an authentic impression of the former wealth and standing of this mediaeval town.

Excursions
Quedlinburg is the Point of Departure for fascinating excursions.

It has been described as the "secret capital of the Romanesque Road" – the route along which cultural tourists and friends of Romanesque Architecture can study this important early period of European architecture.
Quedlinburg also affords access to the nearby Harz Mountains with their unspoilt natural beauty and wild river-gorges, with their witch-lore that inspired Goethe’s "Dr.Faustus" and still marks the livid Walpurgis folklore spectacles on April 30^th each year.

From here one can also visit the Harz-summit, the Brocken (1.142 mtr. alt.), travelling the last stretch on the Harz‘ narrow-gauge railway drawn by steam-locomotives. Visitors can combine the Brocken visit with an excursion to Marienborn, thus seeing the two most prolific points on the former Iron curtain that divided Europe until as recently as 1989. There are two exhibitions on the Brocken and at the former border-checkpoint of Marienborn which recall the awesome decades of the Cold War.