Cultural treasures & sights in the Harz Mountains

Below we present the cultural highlights here in the Harz Mountains. Beautiful excursion destinations, natural treasures and great activity opportunities await you. We hope you enjoy exploring and discovering!

Cistercian Monastery Walkenried World Heritage Site

As part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Rammelsberg ore mine, the old town of Goslar and the Upper Harz water management system, Walkenried Monastery is one of the most important and largest pre-industrial energy and water supply systems. The outstanding special architectural form of the northern cloister wing and other architectural and unusual features are also worth a visit.

Walkenried Monastery

Upper Harz Water Management World Heritage Site

The Upper Harz Water Management System in the Harz National Park is the largest and most important network of ponds and ditches in the world and offers an insight into a sophisticated energy generation, energy storage and energy distribution system from pre-industrial times. Over 70 km of ditches and 21 km of watercourses are still preserved and can be visited today in the Upper Harz. Highlights include the Samson mine and the Rehberger Grabenhaus in Sankt Andreasberg.

Upper Harz water management

Rammelsberg Ore Mine World Heritage Site

Once the largest contiguous copper, lead and zinc ore deposit in the world, it made the town of Goslar rich. Today, the museum and visitor mine Erzbergwerk Rammelsberg offers exciting guided tours above and below ground and takes visitors on a journey through a thousand years of mining and life at Rammelsberg.

The Rammelsberg

World Heritage Site Old Town of Goslar

The magnificent imperial palace, half-timbered houses and the remains of medieval town fortifications bear witness to Goslar's thousand-year history. Where emperors and kings once reigned, visitors today find a lively town with picturesque alleyways and squares, inviting them on an eventful journey through time from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Old town of Goslar

World Heritage Site Quedlinburg

Picturesque half-timbered houses, modern art and romantic alleyways, dominated by the Romanesque collegiate church - this is the lively World Heritage town of Quedlinburg. The old town with its half-timbered houses is the biggest attraction and serves as an exceptional example of a well-preserved medieval town.

Quedlinburg

Cities worth seeing in the surrounding area

Wernigerode, Bad Harzburg, Blankenburg, Bad Lauterberg, Braunlage, Nordhausen or Halberstadt with many interesting sights such as churches, half-timbered houses, gardens, museums and more, which you can discover on guided tou

St. Nikolai Church in Bad Sachsa

A special sight in Bad Sachsa is the centrally located St. Nikolai Church, which was initially built in Romanesque and Gothic style and later rebuilt in Baroque style.The church is at the center of the town. Inside, the 16th century altar, pulpit and baptismal font are particularly worth seeing.

Lutterberg castle ruins 

Count Sigebodo von Lutterberg had a castle built on Bad Lauterberg's local mountain between 1180 and 1190. The castle was destroyed in 1415 and never rebuilt. As a result, only a few remains of the ring walls and the castle well have been preserved from the former castle. There is now a restaurant on the former mountain plateau, which can be reached by cable car or a 30-minute walk. The large terrace offers a magnificent view of the town and the Harz Mountains.

Lutterberg castle ruins