#Castle Wernigerode

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Wernigerode Castle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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WERNIGERODE -GERMANY

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Wernigerode, the rounded castle

The Wernigerode Castle in the Harz Mountains in eastern Germany is characterised by its rounded shape, the result of a renovation undertaken by Count Enrst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode at the end of the 17th century to make it his residence.

The origins of the castle date back to the 12th century and make it a stopping place for German emperors who travelled to the Harz to hunt. It was already built as a fortress at that time, as a place of safety for the lords of the Emperors of Germany.

The alterations that took place over the centuries meant that in the 15th century Schloß Wernigerode acquired late Gothic features, and in the 16th century it was rebuilt in the Renaissance style, of which a stepped tower still remains.

The Thirty Years' War in the 17th century, when the castle already had clear Baroque features, affected the fortress, and so Count Ernst undertook the renovation, which began to introduce the main features that would give the castle its uniqueness.

Around 1716, the castle church, documented since 1259, was converted into a parish church by order of Count Christian Ernst in order to provide religious services for all the inhabitants of the castle and the inhabitants of the town of Wernigerode. The present church dates from the 1870s and 1880s, as the baroque building was demolished in 1870 to built the new on its site. The parish church ceased to function in 1952 under the East German communist regime.

However, the present construction of the fortress is the result of a more deep reformation due to the social rise of Count Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, who in 1867 became the head of the Prussian province of Hanover, then Prussian ambassador to Vienna, and then Vice-Chancellor of the Reich and Deputy Prime Minister of Prussia as Otto von Bismarck's right-hand man.

The architect Carl Frühling was in charge of interpreting the historicism of the time, and the castle underwent a major transformation between 1862 and 1885, allowing its profile to be admired from a great distance, as well as giving it an interior full of details.

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Wernigerode Castle

Wernigerode Castle is located in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The Neo-Romantic castle sits in the Harz Mountains above the town of Wernigerode and originally served as a medieval stronghold for German emperors during their hunting excursions in Harz. The castle was rebuilt into a Renaissance fortress in the 16thcentury, and reconstructed in the baroque style in the late 17th century after the Thirty-Year War damaged much of it. In the 18th century, Count Ernest of Stollberg-Wernigerode reconstructed the castle as a romantic residence for himself; his modifications of the castle were extensive. The present-day building was completed in the late 19thcentury for Count Otto. The castle changed hands numerous times and served as the seat of government on and off throughout its history. The complex includes a beautiful courtyard, stone turrets, a church built in 1880, opulent living quarters, and a panoramic view of the surrounding hills and city. Portions of Wernigerode Castle are open to the public.

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1908 Postcard: Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia and his bride Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (by Gustav Liersch & Co.)

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Quedlinburg (& Wernigerode)

Well then. Quedlinburg and Wernigerode are both small cities with a pretty old citycore in the Harz region in Germany, and were part of a bunch of wealthy cities in that area in the middleages. Other nearby cities are Blankenburg and Halberstadt (the latter I visited last year I think... or the year before). The Harz itself is a mountain range in the middle of Germany, and is most famous for the Brocken where it is said that the witches go there to dance with the devil. You can go up there and have a lovely view over mostly flat landscape, but I have a fear of heights and also don't like the cold very much, so no Brocken visit for me. Quedlinburg is the city where Heinrich (or Henry) I of Saxony was declared king in 919, ...or at least it is said that he got informed about that in Quedlinburg. Maybe. No one knows really. Anyway, he seemed to have liked the city quite a lot and even wanted to get buried there. His other (maybe even greater) hobby was... birds. And catching them. Which led to him carrying the name Heinrich der Vogler (Henry the birdcatchingman basically, as seen clearly in the picture below).

Nevertheless he was the Founder of the later very important Ottonen kings and Kaisers (who were mostly named.. Otto -> Otto I, Otto II, Otto III). And since European kings were traveling a lot to keep their land and people in check, they needed castles to rest inbetween. Which led to the fortification and building of several castles fit for a royal shortterm stay, in German called Königs- or Kaiserpfalz. One of those is the castle on the steep hill in Wernigerode, another is in Blankenburg.

But back to Quedlinburg. Quedlinburg has no real castle. At least not in the sense of a Pfalz. Instead it has the "Collegiate Church" St. Servatii. Built on a hill it was originally planned by Heinrichs wife to be the final resting place for herself and Heinrich. Which did not work out. He was later relocated and got lost and no one knows where his corpse ended up. Anyway, to keep the memory of this birdfriendly man St. Servatii was led by women who did just that - pray for his soul and keep the important things Heinrich and his progeny did in a huge book. All these women came from royal families and had very good relationships to all sorts of wealthy people and had the upper hand when it came to the city management of Quedlinburg. Not that the wealthy people in Quedlinburg really liked that. During Hedwig of Saxony's "reign" (1458-1511) Quedlinburg wanted to become independent since trade became more important than the church (remember: Reformationtime had already started). So Hedwig called her big brothers, the knights and kings and whatnot of Saxony, and made them fight against the townfolks. As a powerful symbol they destroyed the Roland statue at the market, which was a sure sign of city independence and tradevalue, and also showed an alignment with the northgerman Hanse (nearly all big and small cities have a Roland somewhere). But well, that didn't last very long. The Roland came back a few years later.

Today St. Servatii is a romanic church with a crypta (one of the very few things still existing in an early medieval frankish-style), joined by a huge castle-like building that changed many times over the years, and several gardens. It is also surrounded by a huge wall.

I somehow didn't take a single photo of the church+buildings from the outside. Sorry. But the city itself is more pretty anyway. Get some inspiration from the following pictures!

Over 60% of all Fachwerk-houses were renovated during the last 30 years, and made fit for modern living. Really, each time I woke up and looked outside I thought I woke up in 1400 something. The bells of the churches signaled when to open or close businesses and after dark the streets were even more empty than during the day (which is a very different experience in summer, trust me). But holy hell, you better not break your leg while you live there. The stairs are... a thing. It's all very crooked and narrow.

We were very lucky to be there for market day both in Quedlinburg and in Wernigerode. They sold a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeery tasty salami made from stag, and we tried a horsemeatball (tasty!). And don't get me started on all the little shops you can browse through. Some are just rubbish, but they have a very good teashop and we spend nearly 75€ on stuff in another shop that sold all kinds of chocolate, sweets, writing material and pretty things. We also had one dinner in the Ratskeller (the cellar below the townhall where the best wine and goods were stored), it was delicious. As were all the cakes in the shops!

All in all: I loved it. It was incredibly cold, but sunny. And with less people about it was an absolute joy to walk through both cities. Lastly, a picture of the townhall in Wernigerode (with old people, ...sorry old people but if you constantly run into my pictures I can't do anything about that).

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Buried 500-Year-Old Gold Coins Hidden by Monk Discovered in Germany

Archaeologists have uncovered several 500-year-old gold coins during excavations at the ruins of a medieval monastery in Germany.

The discovery was made in the former Himmelpforten monastery near the town of Wernigerode in Saxony-Anhalt state, German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) reported.

Wernigerode is renowned for its well-preserved historic center, with its colorful medieval buildings, as well as its 12th-century castle.

In total, researchers identified four gold coins in the monastery ruins that would have been very valuable.

Archaeologists think that the coins, some of which are heavily worn, may have been hastily hidden by monks when the monastery was stormed by rebellious farmers in 1525.

"The gold coins were of great value, and the small fortune was probably hidden by a monk in an acutely dangerous situation," project manager and archaeologist Felix Biermann of the Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology told the DPA. "The whole thing did not end well because the coins could not be recovered."

The artifacts are known as guilders-the name of several gold coins used during the Holy Roman Empire. The HRE was a political entity spanning western, central and southern Europe that lasted for around 1,000 years from the tail end of the first millennium until its dissolution in 1806.

At the empire's greatest extent, its territory covered the entirety of modern-day Germany. Rather than being a single unitary state, the HRE was a confederation of numerous small- and medium-sized political entities.

The coins found at the monastery in Wernigerode, which was once located within the territory of the HRE, measure just over 1 inch across. They include a guilder minted in Frankfurt before 1493 by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, as well as one produced in Schwabach, near Nuremberg, between 1486 and 1495. The other two guilders were minted in Bonn, a city in western Germany, around 1480-1481.

In addition to the coins, archaeologists have uncovered numerous artifacts dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries during their recent work at the monastery site. These items include brass book clasps from the monastery library, ceramics, animal bones, a cavalry spur and ornate cloth seals made of lead. Archaeologists said these artifacts indicate large-scale trade and a prosperous monastic community.

The Himmelpforten monastery was founded before 1253 by the noble von Hartesrode family and once housed Augustinian hermits. The Augustinians are members of Catholic Christian religious orders who live in a manner inspired by Saint Augustine's rules of life.

In 1516, the Himmelpforten monastery was visited by German priest, theologian and Augustinian friar Martin Luther, a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation.

BY ARISTOS GEORGIOU.

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hiii emy i hope you are ok lately, i love seeing ur presence on the timeline

is there an underrated part of germany u would recommend ppl check out

what are some ways you give yourself grace / are gentle to urself?

what is your favourite playlist lately

-- wiz not on anon lmfao

hi wiz! i'm doing okay, just ready for exam season and this semester to be over. this got very long, so my answers are below the cut 🫠

1. there actually are a lot of beautiful places in germany! you can get a little bit of everything here, coasts, lakes, castles, stalactite caves, mountains, beautiful old towns and so on and so forth, it just depends on where you are.

some castles: burg hohenzollern, schloss neuschwanstein (1st picture), reichsburg cochem, schloss schwerin, schloss braunfels, schloss celle, schloss nordkirchen, schloss drachenburg (2nd picture), burg eltz (3rd picture), schloss moritzburg, schloss wernigerode (schloss is german for castle, if that wasn't obvious by now)

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✨️nature✨️: the devil's wall in the harz mountains (rock formation of sandstone and chalk), the stubbenkammer and the königsstuhl on rügen (two most famous formations in the chalk cliffs), the saalfeld fairy grottos (stalactite cave; 1st picture), the bastei in saxon switzerland (sandstone formation and natural monument; 2nd picture), the hainich national park (beautiful deciduous forest, unesco world heritage site), the old castle rocks in the palatinate forest (group of red sandstone rocks), the sea of rocks in the oden forest (large block accumulation of dark gray quartz diorite), the extern stones in the teutoburg forest (striking sandstone rock formation), the morsum cliff on sylt (steep coast in a unique geotope in europe), the lüneburg heath (flat undulating heath, geest and forest landscape; 3rd picture) (never realised we had so many rocks lol)

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some waters: the triberg waterfalls in the black forest (highest waterfall in germany), the königssee in the berchtesgadener land (1st picture), the mecklenburg lake district (including the müritz, the biggest lake in germany), the blautopf in the swabian alps (karst spring with intensely blue water due to its lime content), the waldnaab valley in the upper palatinate, lake constance (in the foothills of the alps between germany, austria and switzerland), the eibsee in the wetterstein mountains (2nd picture) (see is lake in german)

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old towns (with timbered houses and all that jazz): quedlinburg, heidelberg, rothenburg ob der trauber (1st picture), lübeck, erfurt, meersburg, trier, dinkelsbühl, marburg, freiburg, wismar, bamberg (2nd picture)

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there also are plenty of nice museums and so much more, but this is already way too long. in short, you'll find a lot of gems aside from the big cities (which usually really aren't that great lmao).

2. permitting myself to take longer for things than other people. for example, i've recently (mostly) come to terms with the fact that i will need significantly more than the three years standard period of study to get my bachelor's degree, for a bunch of reasons, and i am constantly reminding myself that that's nothing to be ashamed of. my reasons are valid and taking the time i need does not make me less qualified to get this degree.

3. i've been making a lot of f1 playlists lately which is a lot of fun and my favourite is one i haven't completely finished and posted yet 🤭 this one is for a much beloved ship so i want it to be as accurate as possible.

thank you for the questions <3

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Wernigerode castle

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Wernigerode, Germany. Kochstrasse

Old noble house. Wernigerode, Harz, Germany

Wernigerode Castle.

Wonderful walking tour of Wernigerode ::

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CU8A1624-Verbessert-RR.jpg von Rainer Über Flickr: Wernigerode Castle

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Castle Werningerode, Harz Mountains, State of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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Castle Werningerode, Harz Mountains, State of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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Schloss Wernigerode - by F.R. Easthouse

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