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Rieder

Rieder is a village and a former municipality in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Rieder
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The place

Rieder is a village and a former municipality in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 December 2013, it is part of the town Ballenstedt. Between 1 January 2011 and 19 February 2013, it was part of the town Quedlinburg.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rieder

3 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. 01
    St. Cyriakus

    Saint Cyriakus is a medieval church in Gernrode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

    2.3 km · church building in Gernrode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.4 km · mountain in the Harz, Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.3 km · Monastery in Germany · Wikipedia

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 Rieder

Airports
Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 81 km · Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 85 km · Kassel (KSF), 128 km
  • Schkeuditz → Rieder
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · €12–16
  • Erfurt → Rieder
    85 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · €13–18
  • Calden → Rieder
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · €19–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rieder

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 Rieder. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextA gondola lift runs from Thale up to the Hexentanzplatz, where today, the plateau resembles a small Theme Park aimed at families.
  • Go nextThe 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, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    452 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    490 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    682 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    853 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    875 km

If you know how people move in Rieder – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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