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Quedlinburg Town Hall stands at Markt 1 and is one of the oldest Gothic town halls in Germany (core: second half of the 13th century). It dominates the north side of the market square with its vine-covered facade and is one of the central architectural monuments of the UNESCO World Heritage city.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site for good reason. It's simply beautiful here.

Architecture and History The three-story timber-framed house in the Late Gothic style was built around 1525.[1] Other sources indicate around 1530.[2] The timber-framed facade, whose upper stories project significantly, displays various decorative elements and is largely preserved in its original state. For example, ship's keel moldings with angular corners, an early form of ship's keel molding, can be found on the sills and infill timbers. On the sill of the second upper story, ornaments in the form of a six-petaled flower are carved. Furthermore, there are braces on the pear-shaped profiled beam ends and overlapping head braces. The timber frame posts are positioned above the ceiling joists, which are arranged at regular intervals. Crossbeams, serving for bracing, are arranged between the posts. The panels were originally filled with wattle and daub, but are now bricked up. It is assumed that, at the time of construction, the building's windows were small, individual windows arranged in continuous rows. Later, both the arrangement and size of the windows were altered. The mullions directly below the windows on the second floor were therefore moved downwards. Presumably, the infill panels between the current windows were bricked up at this time. On the courtyard side, parts of the original design and the old straw-clay infill are still preserved. The current window style may have been installed in the 19th century. The house features corbels. However, the corbels originally located below the second floor were removed when the windows on the first floor were enlarged; only the outermost corbels remain. A mezzanine level, only two meters high, was inserted into the ground floor. In addition, there was an almost square cellar facing the courtyard, spanned by a groin vault and accessible via a six-step staircase. The roof truss of the house dates back to the original construction and comprises nine bays. The attic floor is made of gypsum screed. Furthermore, a straw-clay wattle infill is preserved in the northern gable wall. In the mid-20th century, the roof was covered with a lime-strip tile roof. [Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breite_Stra%C3%9Fe_49_(Quedlinburg)]

It is reminiscent of the musicians, mostly of Bohemian descent, from Münzenberg on the opposite side of the road. They often earned their living by playing music.

Beautiful fountain in the Quedlinburg market square.

The Münzenberg Musicians were a group of musicians from Quedlinburg who originally came from the Münzenberg, a hill opposite the Stiftsberg. They were predominantly of Bohemian origin and earned their living by playing music at various events, a tradition that continued until the early 1950s. Today, a bronze statue dedicated to the Münzenberg Musicians on Quedlinburg's market square, created by Professor Wolfgang Dreysse and erected in 1979.

The Bode River is familiar to us from the legend of the Rosstrappe. It babbles merrily through Quedlinburg.

Such beautiful houses in this great city.