World Heritage City Quedlinburg - City Hall by Thomas Bugdoll

About "World Heritage City Quedlinburg - City Hall"

by Thomas Bugdoll

About the artwork

Quedlinburg is a town on the river Bode north of the Harz Mountains in the district of Harz in Saxony-Anhalt.
First mentioned in a document in 922 and granted town charter in 994, the town was the seat of the royal palatinate of secular rulers visited at Easter from the 10th to the 12th century and of a ladies' convent for almost 900 years.
In the historic old town with its cobblestone streets, winding alleys and small squares are a good 2000 half-timbered houses from eight centuries.

With a historically built-up city center extending over more than 80 hectares, Quedlinburg is one of the largest area monuments in Germany.

Its closed medieval town layout and its huge stock of half-timbered houses document more than six centuries of half-timbered construction in a unique quality and quantity. Buildings from all style and time periods make Quedlinburg a prime example of the development of half-timbered construction par excellence.

The collegiate church of St. Servatius with its famous cathedral treasure, the thousand-year-old Wipertikirche and the remains of the Marian monastery on Münzenberg remind us of the priority this place had for the Ottonian rulers of the 10th century. The election of Henry, Duke of Saxony, as king in 919 laid the foundations for the emergence of the first German state. He was buried in his favorite palace on Quedlinburg's Schlossberg in 936. The women's monastery, founded in the same year by his widow Mathilde, developed into a high-ranking political and cultural metropolis of the empire. As the Easter palace of the Ottonian emperors and the site of important court days and synods, Quedlinburg was at the center of events for more than 100 years.

On December 17, 1994, Quedlinburg, over 80 hectares of historic inner city with Stiftsberg, Münzenberg and Wiperti, was declared a universal heritage of humanity.