8. Quedlinburg
This hard-to-believe town is a half-timbered fairy tale – this isn’t an exaggeration at all: more than 1,300 half-timbered houses can be found in the narrow alleyways of Quedlinburg, one more beautiful than the other. Quedlinburg is a small town (approximately 25,000 citizens) in the western part of Saxony-Anhalt, located north of the Harz Mountains.
It was chartered more than a thousand years ago, and between the 10th and 12th centuries it was home to a royal palace: German kings visited Quedlinburg annually on Easter. Furthermore, the “Stift Quedlinburg” (a St. Mary’s convent) had its domicile here for more than 900 years, making this jaw-droppingly gorgeous town one of the most unbelievable hidden tourist gems in Germany.
Great post on Germany. We spent three weeks exploring the divergent sides of Germany last summer. We snapped over 5k in photos! It’s truly beautiful.