Harz Monastery Hiking Trail - 6th Stage - Thale to Quedlinburg

This stage features special churches and monastery complexes of partly outstanding international significance, but also beautiful village churches. From Wendhusen Monastery in Thale, the path leads to Neinstedt with a view of the Devil's Wall and along the romantic Bode River. In the middle of Neinstedt lies the village church of St. Catherine, whose garden invites you to linger with a view over the village. In Stecklenberg, be sure to take in the beautiful ensemble with the Protestant village church, the spa park with its water axis, and the model of Lauenburg before continuing via Bad Suderode to Gernrode to the Romanesque collegiate church of St. Cyriakus, considered one of the most important Ottonian architectural monuments in Germany. The destination is Quedlinburg on Münzenberg. Here, among numerous churches and monuments worth seeing, two right on the route are recommended: St. Wiperti Church, with its 10th-century crypt also a World Heritage site, and the St. Mary Museum on Münzenberg.