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Saxônia-Anhalt · Germany
In the destination Salzwedel and the Altmark.
In the photo: Neuperver Tor, in the historic center of Salzwedel, Germany.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Hanseatic town in the northwest of the Altmark, in Saxony-Anhalt. The old town, surrounded by arms of the Jeetze River, has more than 570 half-timbered houses and three medieval brick churches: St. Mary, St. Catherine and St. Lawrence. The former Franciscan church has been turned into a concert hall, the Danneil museum holds an altarpiece from Cranach’s workshop and the castle tower rises in a public garden. It is the town of Salzwedeler Baumkuchen.
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Salzwedel’s largest church, a brick Gothic basilica with five naves and a tower just over 80 metres high, slightly leaning. In the chancel is a carved altarpiece from 1510 measuring eight metres in height.
Brick Gothic church of Salzwedel’s old Neustadt, begun in 1280, with a bronze baptismal font from 1421, a carved altarpiece from 1474 and medieval chancel stained glass.
Brick basilica from the mid-13th century, in the transition from Romanesque to Gothic. It served as a salt depot for over a century and today is a Catholic church, a stop on the Straße der Romanik.
Museum of Altmark history in a Renaissance manor house from 1578, next to the church of Santa Maria. It houses the Retable of the Vineyard from the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger and finds from the region’s prehistory.
Public garden on the northern edge of the center, on the site of the former Salzwedel castle. The round tower of about 24 metres from the late 12th century remains, as well as sections of the wall and the moat.
Former church of the Franciscan convent, dating to around 1250, attached to Salzwedel’s town hall. Since 1986 it has been used as a concert and exhibition hall.
