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Gernrode Gernrode is a little town on the northeastern edge of the Harz Mountains in Saxony-Anhalt . It was first recorded in 961 and, in 1539, was given the right to bear a coat of arms and seal, which was equivalent to be granted town rights. For almost 700 years the town was the seat of one of the first free convents to formed after the Reformation .
In the old town with its winding streets there are many buildings representing the different centuries of the town's history. In the little market place stands the town hall which dates to the Historicism period. West of it is the Romanesque tower of the old market church of St. Stephen, as well as the best known attraction, the Romanesque Church of St. Cyriakus which is on the southern route of the Romanesque Road .
Geography
The federal state of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany Mountains : Harz - Brocken - List of mountains and hills of Saxony-Anhalt - List of mountains in the Harz
Rivers : Aland - Aller - Bode - Dosse - Eine - Elbe - Hassel - Havel - Helme - Holtemme - Ilse - Jeetzel - Luppbode - Mulde - Ohre - Rappbode - Saale - Salzwedel Dumme - Schlenze - Schwarze Elster - Tanger - Unstrut - White Elster - Wipper - Wustrow Dumme - Zillierbach
Important cities and towns : Magdeburg - Aschersleben - Bernburg (Saale) - Bitterfeld-Wolfen - Blankenburg (Harz) - Burg - Calbe (Saale) - Dessau-Roßlau - Eisleben - Freyburg (Unstrut) - Gardelegen - Genthin - Gernrode - Halberstadt - Haldensleben - Halle (Saale) - Havelberg - Hettstedt - Jessen (Elster) - Kalbe (Milde) - Klötze - Köthen (Anhalt) - Leuna - Merseburg - Naumburg (Saale) - Oebisfelde - Oschersleben (Bode) - Quedlinburg - Salzwedel - Sangerhausen - Schönebeck (Elbe) - Staßfurt - Stendal - Tangerhütte - Tangermünde - Thale - Weißenfels - Wernigerode - Wittenberg - Zeitz - Zerbst/Anhalt
Regions : Altmark - Harz - Saale-Unstrut Region
Landscapes : Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm - Eastphalia - Fläming - Geisel valley - Harz Foreland - Magdeburg Börde
Districts and independent towns : Anhalt-Bitterfeld - Altmarkkreis Salzwedel - Börde - Burgenlandkreis - Dessau-Roßlau - Harz - Halle (Saale) - Jerichower Land - Magdeburg - Mansfeld-Südharz - Saalekreis - Salzlandkreis - Stendal - Wittenberg
History
Nebra sky disc History : Nebra sky disc - Thietmar of Merseburg - Eike von Repgow - Province of Saxony - Anhalt - Province of Halle - Province of Magdeburg - Albert the Bear - Cardinal Albert - Reformation - Ascania - Fruitbearing Society
Historic people : Henry the Fowler - Otto I - Otto II - Otto III - Margrave of Gero - Leopold III Frederick Franz - Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen - Maria of Masovia - Samuel Hahnemann - Otto von Guericke
World Heritage Sites : Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg - Luther sites in Eisleben and Wittenberg - Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm - Bauhaus Dessau
Transport, Tourism and Media
Aqueduct near Magdeburg Transport : America Line - Elbe - Elbe–Havel Canal - Halberstadt–Blankenburg railway - Halle–Cottbus railway - Havel - Leipzig/Halle Airport - Magdeburg S-Bahn - Magdeburg Water Bridge - Mittelland Canal - Quedlinburg station - Stendal Central Station - Tangermünde station - Uelzen station - Wittenberge station
Tourism : Romanesque Road - Arendsee - Via Regia
Media : MDR - Sputnik
Personlities
Lucas Cranach d. Ä., 1550 Art : Lucas Cranach - Wassily Kandinsky - Paul Klee
Philosophy : Friedrich Schleiermacher - Christian Thomasius - Christian Wolff - Philip Melanchthon
Pedagogy : Johann Bernhard Basedow - August Hermann Francke
Literature : Clemens Brentano - Gottfried August Bürger - Johann Gleim - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - Carl Immermann - Wilhelm Müller - Novalis .
Technology : Hans Grade - Hugo Junkers
Medicine : Dorothea Erxleben - Johann Christian Reil
Music : Heinrich Schütz - Johann Sebastian Bach - Georg Philipp Telemann - Georg Friedrich Händel - Carl Friedrich Abel - Kurt Weill - Tokio Hotel - Lied für Sachsen-Anhalt - Handel Festival, Halle
Religion : Martin Luther - Justus Jonas - Johannes Bugenhagen - Mechthild of Magdeburg - Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen - Erzbischof Wichmann
Politics : Otto von Bismarck - Wolfgang Böhmer - Hans-Dietrich Genscher
TV : Dieter Hallervorden
Miscellaneous:
Magdeburg hemispheres Sport : Stefan Kretzschmar - SC Magdeburg - 1. FC Magdeburg (List of 1. FC Magdeburg players ) - Hallescher FC - Germania Halberstadt - Erich Rademacher - Gustav-Adolf Schur - Waldemar Cierpinski - 1. FC Aschersleben - Bischofswerdaer FV 08 - FC Oberlausitz Neugersdorf
Folk festivals :
Miscellaneous : Magdeburg hemispheres
