REDEKIN 20 VILLAGE CHURCH Dorfkirche Lindenstraße 14 39319 Stadt Jerichow ROHRBERG OT Redekin enders@kirchenkreis- 9 VILLAGE CHURCH stendal.de Dorfkirche A small bronze crucifix dating back to the middle Opening times: th / Breite Straße th century with an image of the front of By arrangement, 38489 Rohrberg of the 12 (Tel. + 49 39343 256) None, Late-Romanesque stone church from the 12 Opening times: Christ on a cross is of nationwide importance. Entrance price: th By arrangement Elaborate brick friezes and the horseshoe gallery donations welcome 13 century, with a transept dating back to the by arrangement 19th century. Inside the church, the cup-shaped Tours: are also worth seeing. The church has a flat- Tours: by advance Discover roofed nave, a tapered cross-vaulted rectangular reservation, German, CALENDAR OF EVENTS Romanesque font on the top of a cushion capital, English (SELECTION)* the pulpit from 1691, the retable (from around choir, a high apse and a broad three-storey “ROMANESQUE ROAD” MORE READING the Northern 1700) and the organ from 1886 are particularly western cross tower. VOCAL ROMANESQUE ERA worth seeing. You can find attractive excursions CASTLE FESTIVALS / / ALTENPLATHOW into the “Heartland of German GENTHIN KNIGHT TOURNAMENTS Summer Route Magdeburg TOMBSTONE OF History”, along the “Sky Paths” 21 Concerts along the HERMANN VON PLOTHO Ev. Kirche Genthin and into the “Garden Dreams” Altenplathow Whitsuntide “Romanesque Road” Altenplathower Straße 74 39307 Genthin Whitsun “Pfingstrose” Knight in the brochure “Heartland of DIESDORF June and in the Contact: German History” AUGUSTINIAN CONVENT CHURCH OF Ev. Pfarramt Genthin Tournament at Neuenburg Castle 10 montalbâne – International “Sky Paths” and Klosterkirche Große Schulstr. 3 www.schloss-neuenburg.de leaflets ST MARY AND THE HOLY CROSS St. Maria und Crucis In the former registry of the Neogothic church, Tel. + 49 3933 3605 49 3933 805232 Festival of Medieval Music Kloster, 29413 Diesdorf the ‘Plotho-Stube’, you will find a rare, well Fax + “Garden Dreams – Historic Parks MAGDEBURG Tel. + 49 3902 327 preserved example of a medieval figurative ev.pfarramt-genthin@ Mai at Neuenburg Castle and at The oldest vaulted pure Romanesque church in (Ev. Pfarramt, Am Schäfertor 7) . t-online.de in Saxony-Anhalt”. MAGDEBURG CATHEDRAL, CATHEDRAL CHURCH Fax + 49 3902 950199 memorial slab. This one depicts the lord of the the Freyburg Parish Church of 1 the Altmark region and one of the best preserved. Opening times and Tours: Dom zu Magdeburg Opening times: By arrangement OVERALL PLAN former Plote castle, who died in around 1170 Garden Dreams – the most popular facilitiesOF in Saxony-Anhalt ST MAURICE AND ST KATHERINE It has a Holy Sepulchre. The richly adorned and 49 3933 3605) “Garden Dreams” – Historic Parks in Saxony-Anhalt: 1. April – 30. September, Wed – St Mary Historic Parks and Gardens Am Dom 1 (Tel. + OVERVIEW MAP /// THE MIDDELAGES YOU CAN GRASP Garden Dreams – None, With botanical opulence Sun, 10 a.m to 16 p.m. and by Historic Parks The beauty is so obvious! With traces of Baroque splendour With landscapes of the world 39104 Magdeburg gabled embrasure portal jutting out from the Entrance price: rdens be without trees, radiance in the first spring As so often, the truth is very plain: whoever wants to see source of all landscape art in What would parks and ga the lakes, canals and fo rests, They are something very special. Even today one recognises sun, its exuberant satisfac- Parks and gardens enchant us. They take us we sidled along scape parks on the Germany, and naturally also flowers and botanical rarities? Nothing! There would arrangement le land parks which contain traces of Baroque splendour an d elicit the original of all English-sty 49 391 5432414 to paradise. This tour can I was truly moved at how the gods allowed tion on luscious summer in Saxony-Anhalt along on a journey European continent has to travel to Wörlitz. a role model and example for not be any at all. Tel. + such a dream around “ahs” and “wows” from visitors. days and the touch of silent donations welcome [email protected] any case, it is always a the sovereigns to create be short or long. But in numerous parks in present- www.sachsen-anhalt-tourismus.de re. Even if we often look longingly for them.” He experienced this garden dream on ance at a historic summer. But in the artifi- melancholy in the middle of pleasu ween tree Prince Leopold III, Friedrich The subsequently emerging day Saxony-Anhalt. After The first gl front wall of the southern transept and the orig- 14 May 1778. The history of these gardens ple to enjoy the pleasures of world of stone bet k autumnal fog. the thriving and fragrant oases Garden Kingdom of Dessau- the era of Baroque gardens, facility which is so impor- cially conjured landscape par illuminates us, fascinates us summer. Guests adorned in and blossom is also always Franz von Anhalt-Dessau, in Italy, France or England – www.gartenreich.com a wave of park redevelop- tant among us visitors that which seems natural, visitors Many of these searching Tours: By advance nique cultural o experience brocade and silk promenade included in the artistic callig- made his dream come true Wörlitz is a u www.magdeburgerdom.de and allows us t the beauty is so obvious! ted, primarily in the decides on love and sym- also seek, in amazement, the glances will strike a bo- d paths. raphy of the Baroque era. So here. Still inspired by the landscape which is a World ment star these sites and to be deeply on cream-coloure th nanza in the Garden Dreams www.sachsen-anhalt-tourismus.de itage Site today. beginning of the 19 century. pathy, also seeks a mighty splendid specimens of trees . Baroque parks Water shafts feed soaring it is not surprising that gods impressions of his tour of Her The new Garden impressed nd and hedgerows which are facilities that are a verita- England, as early as the 2 For 250 years, Wörlitz has In the process, “walk-in land- copper beech tree on a rich stimulate our imagination fountains, while their cooling and nymphs also want to or visitors. Dreams facilities th ” with special green meadow, or the first already hundreds of years old. ble pleasure f reservation with Ms Osmers ited visitors to sharpen scape paintings inal mural painting in the window reveals of the - make a good impression. half of the 18 century, he inv without our help. We are on drops bathe the surround However, because of all the And as is so often in our 43 times ambrosia arden planned a project that newly their senses and to enjoy visual relationships between colourful blaze of narcissuses Since the summer of 2010, 8 a journey through time into ing box tree sculptures. The Even today, the G life, many a park needs our the enlightened view at buildings, sculptures and and tulips in the spring, and trees, blossoms and leaves e 17th and 18th century – hands of clever and patient Dreams parks with their Ba- arranged the Wörlitz land- Opening times: May – Sept other historic parks have been th second glance so that being In the meantime, 43 historic the essential beauty in is horticultural elements were the delicate pink, wine-red you have to take your time 49 3902 939640 or the he well-planned, gardeners make globes, cones roque design attest to the crea- scape between the Elbe and parks and gardens are includ- included as part of the State in which t ed a and pearly-white radiant, and look closely to discern enamoured becomes deep Tel. + tivity and quality which we still Mulde rivers, making it better facilities, which are always created. The park acquir September Initiative for the Preserva- almost geometrically laid out and curiosities grow from face – its gentle affection! ed among the State of Saxony- is the philosophica l dimension. fragrant rose blossoms of the park’s u- them. A strange sculptural enjoy almost 300 years later. usable for the residents. freely accessible. Here / Anhalt’s “Garden Dream s” tion of Historic Gardens and gardens invited the royal co eastern parts, consisting of white-red chequered tourism marketing: Mon – Sat 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., initiative. Specialists have lov- attractive ingly selected them with great care from over gardens and parks in Aschersleben, Cathe- During the medieval, Magdeburg was a political Protestant parish office Europa-Rosarium Sangerhausen 1,000 heritage-protected parks and gardens dral and Cathedral Gardens in Naumburg, Hundisburg Palace and Baroque Garden, Garden Ki ngdom of Dessau-Wörlitz ROMANESQUE ROAD located between the Elbe River, Harz moun- Wendgräben Castle with park, Ostrau Palace Althaldensleben Landscape Park / and Palace Garden, Köthen Palace and Palace Oct – April Mon – Sat tains range and the Saale River. The majority of / rel. b arden, Stolberg Palace and Palatial Gardens, and triangular ornaments are particularly worth Merseburg Organ Days them have been redeveloped and restored in G historic documents. Briest Manor House and Manorial Park and the Entrance prices: None, recent years according to ut 2 million visitors a year do not miss out Degenershausen Landscape Park. centre of Europe and was considered to be the Abo nd treat their senses to a 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Sun on the opportunity a feast for the eyes and salvation for their soul. BURG t.de esgartenschau donations welcome www.gartentraeume-sachsen-anhal The Bund seeing. 2015 Havelregion – From cathedral to cathedral, “Third Rome”, next to Constantinople. Otto the hols 11.30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Ladegast Organ the blue ribbon of the Havel River Crowning achievement The 7 facilities of the Garden Kingdom of The 2015 Federal Horticultural Show (BUGA) from Havelberg to Brandenburg: the Havel LOWER CHURCH OF Dessau-Wörlitz are a highlight for the start or finale of a Garden Dreams journey through region is a contiguous landscape and cultural 22 Saxony-Anhalt.