--- title: "Gernrode – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Gernrode, Germany: Gernrode is a historic town and former municipality in the Harz District, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Nearby: St. Cyriakus, Ölbergshöhe…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gernrode" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gernrode.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Gernrode_-_Ausblick_von_der_Burg.jpg" --- Stadtteil of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany # Gernrode Gernrode is a historic town and former municipality in the Harz District, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ![Gernrode](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Gernrode_-_Ausblick_von_der_Burg.jpg) Gernrode · Wikimedia Commons The place Gernrode is a historic town and former municipality in the Harz District, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2014, it has been part of Quedlinburg. It was the seat of the former Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Gernrode/Harz. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernrode), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Gernrode 4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. St. Cyriakus Saint Cyriakus is a medieval church in Gernrode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. 200 m · church building in Gernrode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Cyriakus,_Gernrode) 2. Ölbergshöhe The Ölbergshöhe in the Harz Mountains of central Germany is a mountain spur, 320.6 metres above sea level, of the Ramberg ridge near Bad Suderode in the Saxony-Anhalt county of Harz. 1.3 km · mountain in the Harz, Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96lbergsh%C3%B6he) 3. Stecklenburg The Stecklenburg is a ruined medieval castle in the East Harz in Germany, located on a small rise only a few hundred metres away from the village of Stecklenberg in the district of Harz in Saxony-Anhalt. The castle was built in the 11th century by the Stackelbergs on the remains of an older one. 3.6 km · Ruined medieval castle · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stecklenburg) 4. Gernrode Abbey Gernrode Abbey was a house of secular canonesses in Gernrode in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Gernrode was founded in 959 and was disestablished in the seventeenth century. 200 m · Monastery in Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernrode_Abbey) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Gernrode **Airports:** Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 83 km · Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 84 km · Kassel (KSF), 125 km\ - Schkeuditz → Gernrode 83 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · €12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/schkeuditz-to-gernrode) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Schkeuditz&to=Gernrode) - Erfurt → Gernrode 84 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · €12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/erfurt-to-gernrode) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Erfurt&to=Gernrode) - Calden → Gernrode 69 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · €9–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/calden-to-gernrode) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Calden&to=Gernrode) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Gernrode) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Gernrode Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gernrode. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Go next A gondola lift runs from Thale up to the Hexentanzplatz, where today, the plateau resembles a small Theme Park aimed at families. - Go next The walk starts next to Thale gondola station, where the path follows the river, taking you through dense forest and then into open meadows filled with wildflowers, ending in the village of Treseburg near a ruined castle. From [Wikivoyage: Quedlinburg](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Quedlinburg), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 451 km 2. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 491 km 3. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 681 km 4. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 851 km 5. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 873 km If you know how people move in Gernrode – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cgernrode&title=Gernrode&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fgernrode), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Gernrode - [Rieder](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/rieder) human settlement in Germany 2.1 km - [Stecklenberg](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/stecklenberg) human settlement in Germany 3.7 km - [Gernrode/Harz Administrative Community](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gernrode-harz-administrative-community) district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany 1 km [The place page for Gernrode](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/gernrode) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Germany](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-DE) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gernrode, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt