Highlights in Wernigerode
The best way to get to know Wernigerode and its sights is to take one of the multi-themed sightseeing tours through the old town.
Our tip: The night watchman’s tour through the old town with history and stories from the past.
- Castle Wernigerode
- The historical town hall
- The Wohltäter (benefactor) fountain
- The western gate tower
- Half-timbered buildings that are worth seeing: the “smallest house”, the “skewed house”, the “crooked house”
Excursions and sights in the surrounding area
Harz National Park with its wild, romantic nature, old half-timbered towns, palaces and castles: There’s much to discover around Wernigerode:
- Harz National Park. The best way to discover the unique, untouched nature is with the Harz narrow gauge train.
- Brocken train: ride up to the legendary peak which, at 1,142 metres, is the highest mountain in northern Germany
- The Selke Valley train is the romantic section of the narrow gauge network and has been an insider tip for lovers of nature for a long time
- The Harz cross country train crosses Harz from Wernigerode to Nordhausen
- Witches dance place: After Brocken mountain, the best known place in Harz is on a cliff that rises almost vertically out of the ground to a height of about 450 metres
- Harz mining museum: 1,024 year history of mining with a variety of museums and mines that can be visited
- The towns of Schierke (a popular holiday destination and winter sports centre), and Harzburg (many parks and green areas, mountain cable car and castle mountain with the ruins of Harz castle).
- The town of Quedlinburg, one of the best-known German towns with half-timbered buildings, UNESCO World Heritage Site
- The town of Blankenburg: In the middle ages, Blankenburg was the largest town in the area and has many splendid half-timbered buildings
- Clean air spa of Ilsenburg with waterfalls and the “Romantic Road”
- The western city of Pullman City II
- Devil’s wall: unusual cliff formations
- Ruebelaend stalactite caves
- Rosstrappe in Thale
- Regenstein Castle ruins in Blankenburg
- Rappbodetalsperre
- Michaelstein Monastery
- Barbarossa Cave
- The town of Elbingerode and the town of Hüttenrode
