Discover 11 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Naumburg (Germany). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Naumburg Cathedral, Nietzsche-Haus, and Naumburg Cathedral and the High Medieval Cultural Landscape of the Rivers Saale and Unstrut. Also, be sure to include Pforta in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Naumburg (Saxony-Anhalt).
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Naumburg Cathedral
Also known as: Naumburger Dom
Medieval edifice with choir sculptures. Naumburg Cathedral, located in Naumburg, Germany, is the former cathedral of the Bishopric of Naumburg-Zeitz. The church building, most of which dates back to the 13th century, is a renowned landmark of the German late Romanesque and was recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018. The west choir with the famous donor portrait statues of the twelve cathedral founders and the Lettner, works of the Naumburg Master, is one of the most significant early Gothic monuments.
The church was erected with the relocation of the Episcopal See from Zeitz in 1028, next to an old parish church. Thus it is the proto-cathedral of the former Catholic Diocese of Naumburg-Zeitz. With the Reformation, Naumburg and its cathedral became Protestant. Naumburg Cathedral remains a Protestant parish church to this day.
Naumburg Cathedral is a part of the tourist route Romanesque Road in Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1999, 'Naumburg Cathedral and the landscape of the rivers Saale and Unstrut, an important dominion in the High Middle Ages’.[1]
Address: Domplatz 16, 06618 Naumburg
Nietzsche-Haus
Museum in Naumburg, Germany. The Nietzsche-Haus in Naumburg, Germany, is a building dedicated to the life and work of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
In the summer of 1858 Nietzsche's mother, Franziska Nietzsche, moved with her two children, Elisabeth and Friedrich, to 18 Weingarten in Naumburg, the site of the Nietzsche-Haus. She rented a bright, spacious apartment on the upper floor. In 1878 she bought the house and continued to live there until her death in 1897.
Since 1994, the Nietzsche-Haus has been open to the public as a museum. In October 2010, the Nietzsche Documentation Centre opened, dedicated to research into and critical engagement with Nietzsche.[2]
Address: Weingarten 18, 06618 Naumburg (Saale)
Naumburg Cathedral and the High Medieval Cultural Landscape of the Rivers Saale and Unstrut
The Naumburg Cathedral and the High Medieval Cultural Landscape of the Rivers Saale and Unstrut is situated in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Naumburg Cathedral and the surrounding cultural landscape were proposed by Germany as a World Heritage Site. On July 1, 2018, only Naumburg Cathedral was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. This article discusses the cathedral and its cultural landscape based on the submissions in 1998 and 2005.
The cathedral and surrounding cultural landscape is representative for processes at the High Middle Ages that shaped the whole continent: Christianization, settlement and cultivation processes, the so-called Landesausbau, that took place between 1000 and 1300. This borderland region also bears witness of the intercultural exchange of different cultures in the High Middle Ages. The highest-ranking buildings and works of art, most of all Naumburg Cathedral with its globally unique artistic and iconographic founder figures, provides testimony to the claims to power and the self-confidence of the worldly and spiritual rulers as well as to the region's crucial role as a place of interchange between Western and Eastern realms.[3]
Pforta
School in Naumburg, Germany. Pforta, or Schulpforta, is a school located in Pforta monastery, a former Cistercian monastery, near Naumburg on the Saale River in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Since the 16th century the site has been a school. Notable past alumni include the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. Today, it is a well-known public boarding school for academically gifted children, called Landesschule Pforta. It is coeducational and teaches around 300 high school students.
Pforta is proposed for inscription in the World Heritage List as one component of the German nomination Naumburg Cathedral and the High Medieval Cultural Landscape of the Rivers Saale and Unstrut.[4]
Address: Schulstrasse 12, Naumburg
Stadtkirche St. Wenzel
The Evangelical Lutheran City Church of St. Wenceslas on Naumburg's market square is the city's main church outside the spiritual precinct of the former Cathedral Freedom.
Address: Topfmarkt 18, 06618 Naumburg (Saale)
Wenzelsturm
The Evangelical Lutheran City Church of St. Wenceslas on Naumburg's market square is the city's main church outside the spiritual precinct of the former Cathedral Freedom.
Address: Topfmarkt 18, 06618 Naumburg
War Memorial
The Naumburg War Memorial is a war memorial on the Kramerplatz in Naumburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
The monument made of sandstone was created in 1873 in the style of neo-Gothic tabernacle architecture and shows the statue of Germania. It was created by the Berlin artist Julius Moser according to a design by Johann Gottfried Werner. It commemorates the Naumburg citizens who died in the wars in the German-Danish War of 1864, the German War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71.
It has stood in its current location since 1938.
Wasserkunst
The Wasserkunst is a tower of the medieval city fortifications of the city of Naumburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
The tower, which stands directly on the Wenceslas Wall, was built around 1480 from quarry stone masonry on a square ground plan. After the abandonment of the city fortifications for defensive purposes, it was converted into a water art in the 17th/18th century with the simultaneous installation of a water collection basin.
The tower has three brick floors and a fourth, which is a plastered half-timbered structure. The windows were widened to allow residential use. The tower is crowned by a hipped roof. On the east side of the tower there is a passage through the Wenceslas Wall.
Marientor
Architecture, Historical place
Stadtmuseum Naumburg
Museum
Address: Markt 18, Naumburg
Windmühle Naumburg
Windmill