UNESCO World Heritage

It depicts the starry sky—made 3,600 years ago from bronze and gold. The Nebra Sky Disk is considered the oldest concrete representation of the cosmos. Today, it can be seen in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle. If you want to get even closer, take a trip to the Nebra Ark: with an exhibition, planetarium, and a path to the site where it was found on the Mittelberg. There, it becomes clear that even in the Bronze Age, people sought order in the heavens—and found guidance for life on Earth.

Martin Luther was born in Eisleben and died there—within a radius of just a few streets. He posted his theses in Wittenberg. The UNESCO World Heritage Sites make these places accessible: as memorials, as museums, as spaces that bring a turning point in history to life. The houses, churches, and squares tell of new beginnings, of conflicts – and of the question of how faith, education, and society are connected.

To this day, the Bauhaus continues to shape our modern lives – as a source of inspiration for design that is useful, moving, and enduring. In Dessau, this idea became a built vision: with Gropius' Bauhaus building, the Masters' Houses, and the Törten housing estate. This was about more than just design – it was about new forms of coexistence. Today, the ensemble is a World Heritage Site. And it lives on: in exhibitions, guided tours, and workshops that connect the questions of the past with the present.

A new design language was developed in Dessau—with clear lines, functional forms, and durable materials. Much of what we take for granted today was first conceived here.

A designed landscape – vast, open, well thought-out. The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz was created in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Parks, palaces, canals, and sightlines form a total work of art that combines aesthetics with attitude. This was made possible by Prince Franz von Anhalt-Dessau. It was he who, with ideas and the courage to change, shaped a landscape that was intended to combine thinking and experience. A place for everyone – then as now.

Quedlinburg is synonymous with half-timbered houses, history, and a lively old town. Over 2,000 half-timbered houses from eight centuries, a medieval layout, and the collegiate church with its cathedral treasure—all of this is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. And yet nothing here seems frozen in time. Strolling through the narrow streets, you will discover small shops and cafés and encounter everyday life in a historical setting. In the small courtyards, many artists offer their handicrafts. Manufactories, studios, and owner-operated shops make a stroll through the old town a special experience.

Naumburg Cathedral is a building complex that combines Romanesque and Gothic styles – with impressive architectural clarity and art-historical significance. At the heart of this UNESCO World Heritage Site is the workshop of the so-called Naumburg Master, who created the west choir with figures, capitals, and architectural details around 1250. The twelve donor figures are particularly well known – especially Uta. They do not show people in an idealized way, but with character and inner attitude. The cathedral thus tells us a lot about the worldview of its time – and how it began to change.