Romanesque Road

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The Romanesque Road runs as a holiday route through Saxony-Anhalt in Germany . The Romanesque Road is part of the Transromanica , which includes stops in Germany (Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia ), France , Italy , Austria , Portugal , Serbia , Slovakia and Spain . In 2006 the Transromanica was named a European Cultural Route by the Council of Europe .

history

The idea to create the road came up in 1991 and was implemented in 1993. The reason for this was the large number of Romanesque buildings from the Middle Ages in Saxony-Anhalt with its central location in Germany. According to the initiators, one million people visit facilities on the Romanesque Road every year.

course

Course of the Romanesque Road

The Romanesque Road runs in the shape of an eight, with the state capital Magdeburg in the center . The street connects the cathedrals, castles, monasteries and churches that were built between the 10th and the middle of the 13th century and thus represent a sign of Christianization . The total length of the route is around 1200 kilometers. There are 80 Romanesque objects in 65 locations on it.

North route

place	Sightseeing	image
Magdeburg	Eastern parts of the cathedral (13th century) (Location)
	Monastery of Our Lady (11th century) (Location)
	St. Peter's Church (1150) (Location)
	St. Sebastian Church (11th century) (Location)
Groß Ammensleben	Benedictine monastery (1129) (Location)
Hillersleben	Benedictine nunnery (10th century) (Location)
Hundisburg	Nordhusen ruin (12th century) (location)
Bebertal	Bebertal cemetery chapel (10th century) (location)
Walbeck	Ruins of the collegiate church St. Marien (10th century)
	Sarcophagus of Count Lothar II (10th century) in the village church
Wiepke	Village church (12th century) (location)
Engersen	Village church (13th century)
Rohrberg	Village church (12th century)
Diesdorf	Augustinian Canons and Nunnery Church (1161)
Salzwedel	Lorenz Church (13th century)
Arendsee (Altmark)	Benedictine nunnery (1184)
Beuster	Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas (brick, 12th century)
Seehausen (Altmark)	Stadtkirche St. Petri (west building, brick, with rich portal around 1220)
Havelberg	St. Mary's Cathedral (1150)
Sandau (Elbe)	Parish Church of St. Laurentius and St. Nicholas (1200)
Schönhausen (Elbe)	Village Church (1212)
Junk	Village church (12th century)
Melkow	Village church (12th century)
	Großwulkow village church (around 1170)
Jerichow	Premonstratensian monastery (12th century)
	City Church (13th century)
Talkin	Village church (12th century) (location)
Altenplathow	Figure tombstone (1170) in the Altenplathow village church
Castle	Upper Church of Our Lady (13th century)
	Lower Church of St. Nicolai (1196)
Loburg	Church ruins of Our Dear Women (1190)
Leitzkau	St. Petri village church (12th century)
	Monastery Church of St. Maria (consecrated 1155)
Pretzia	St. Thomas village church (1140)

South route

place	Sightseeing	image
Wanzleben	Wanzleben Castle (896)
Seehausen (Börde)	Church of St. Paul (early 12th century)
Hadmersleben	Benedictine convent of St. Peter and Paul (10th to 12th centuries)
Groeningen	St. Vitus Monastery Church (10th century)
Hamersleben	Collegiate Church of St. Pankratius (around 1110)
Dedeleben	Westerburg moated castle
Huysburg	Huysburg Abbey, St. Mary's Benedictine Priory (1121)
Halberstadt	Cathedral and Cathedral Treasury
	Liebfrauenkirche (early 11th century)
Osterwieck	City Church of St. Stephen
Ilsenburg	Benedictine monastery of St. Peter and Paul (11th century)
Drübeck	Benedictine convent of St. Vitus (11th / 12th century)
Blankenburg	Michaelstein Cistercian Monastery (mid-12th century)
Thale	Kanonissenstift Kloster Wendhusen (825)
Quedlinburg	Collegiate Church of St. Servatius
	St. Wiperti Basilica (around 950)
	St. Mary
Gernrode	Collegiate Church of St. Cyriakus (early 10th century)
Ballenstedt	Benedictine monastery of St. Pancras and Abandus
Falkenstein / Harz	Falkenstein Castle (1120)
Frose	Collegiate Church of St. Cyriakus (around 1170)
Experience	Konradsburg or St. Sixtus monastery church (11th century)
Klostermansfeld	Benedictine monastery church Mariae Himmelfahrt (around 1140)
Lutherstadt Eisleben	Cistercian monastery of St. Marien zu Helfta (13th century)
Seeburg	Seeburg Castle (11th / 12th century castle and chapel)
Sangerhausen	Evangelical Parish Church of St. Ulrici (around 1100)
Tilleda (Kyffhauser)	Königspfalz (10th century)
Allstedt	Allstedt Castle and Palace
Querfurt	Querfurt Castle (10th / 11th century)
Memleben	Ruin of the Benedictine monastery St. Marien
Eckartsberga	Eckartsburg (around 1190)
Bad Kosen	Romanesque house (around 1040)
	Saaleck Castle and Rudelsburg
School gate	Cistercian monastery of Sanctae Mariae ad Portam
Naumburg (Saale)	Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul (11th century crypt)
	Aegidian Curia (13th century)
Goseck	Goseck Castle (monastery church, choir and crypt 11th century)
Time	Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul (11th century)
Freyburg	Neuchâtel Castle (around 1090)
	City Church of St. Mary (13th century)
Merseburg	Cathedral of St. John and Laurentius (1015-1021)
	Neumarktkirche St. Thomas Cantuariensis (12th century)
Hall	Giebichenstein Castle (10th century)
	Village church Böllberg (12th century)
Landsberg	St. Crucis double chapel
Altjeßnitz	Altjeßnitz village church (around 1200)
Petersberg	Augustinian Abbey Church of St. Petrus (11th century)
Bernburg (Saale)	Waldau district , St. Stephani church (12th century)
	Keep of Bernburg Castle ( Eulenspiegel Tower , 12th century)
Nienburg	St. Marien and St. Cyprian Monastery Church of the Nienburg Monastery
Hecklingen	Benedictine monastery church of St. George and Pancratius (around 1150)

The Romanesque Prize , which is awarded annually and is endowed with 10,000 euros , recognizes special commitment to the revitalization and economic strengthening of the “Romanesque Road” in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

See also

• Romanesque Street ( Alsace )

literature

• Elena Matheis: Romanesque Road. A trip to the Middle Ages. Grebennikov, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-941784-32-1 .
• Christian Antz: Street of the Romanesque. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8319-0722-9 .

Web links

Wikivoyage: Romanesque Route  - travel guide

• Romanesque Road - The current travel guide to Saxony-Anhalt
• strassederromanik.de Romanesque Road, publisher: Tourismusverband Sachsen-Anhalt e. V., Magdeburg
• romanikstrasse.de Straße der Romanik, publisher: Thomas Scheid, Pretzien
• Romanesque Road in 16,550 photos
• Handbook Romanesque Road in Saxony-Anhalt ( Memento from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.3 MB)
• Martin Wein: Romanesque Liaison. In: Die Zeit of January 17, 2008
• Experience the Romantic Road . Travel guide of the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung .
• Journey into the Middle Ages: 25 years of the Romanesque Road in: Monumente -Magazin August 2018, pp. 61–63

Individual evidence

1. ↑ countries transromanica.com, accessed on January 3, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} News from the Romanesque Road: Eight new stations and stars for particularly worth seeing. Anhaltweb.de, August 16, 2007, archived from the original on September 16, 2011 ; Retrieved January 22, 2011 . 
3. ↑ The current travel guide Romanesque Road - North Route, Station 14. Retrieved on January 5, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Awarding of the 2007 Romance Prize in Havelberg. Anhaltweb.de, May 11, 2008, archived from the original on April 18, 2015 ; Retrieved May 2, 2009 .