Romanesque Road

Discover the German Middle Ages

The Romanesque Road is extremely popular among German and international visitors. Nowhere else in Germany can you enjoy such a rich Romanesque heritage as in the Saxony-Anhalt of today. The 1,000 km tourist road is shaped like a figure eight and provides a unique opportunity for visitors to marvel at 72 buildings in 60 different places where Romanesque times are brought to life in all their beauty and splendour. A journey along the Romanesque Road will take you to fortified castles, venerable cathedrals and old churches dating from the 10th to 13th century and bearing witness to the times of Christianisation under the union of cross and sword.
Click the following link to learn more about the many fascinating sites and attractions which dot the northern and southern route.

Sites of interest along the Romanesque Road

In fact, Magdeburg is the starting and finishing point as well as the central point of transition between the northern and southern route of the Romanesque Road. The city is rich in impressive Romanesque buildings which are described in detail on the following pages.

Monastery of Our Lady
The Monastery of Our Lady is a stunning piece of Romanesque architecture on the Romanesque Road and also the oldest surviving building in Magdeburg. History ascribes the foundation of the monastery to Archbishop Gero who founded the collegiate church in 1015. Around 1070, St. ... More
Magdeburg Cathedral
The old and venerable Cathedral is Magdeburg’s landmark. Under the Ottonian dynasty, Magdeburg thrived and prospered and became the most important political and religious town of the German empire at the beginning of the 10th century. As early as 937, Otto the ... More
The diocesan church St. Sebastian
The erection of the basilica was ordered by Archbishop Gero in 1015, and it was long considered Magdeburg’s most venerable sacral building after the Cathedral. Custom had it that the mortal remains of Magdeburg's bishops were laid out here on the first day of their death before ... More
University church St. Petri
In fact, the church belonged to the fishermen's village of Frose just outside the protection of the city walls – the city area did not extend to the church in the 11th century and its fortified tower was meant to defend the villagers. Around 1830, the church's ... More