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Ortsteil of Ballenstedt in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

# Rieder

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

![Rieder](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Althofen_Salzburger_Platz_6_Riederhaus_Nord-Ansicht_20082018_4274.jpg/1920px-Althofen_Salzburger_Platz_6_Riederhaus_Nord-Ansicht_20082018_4274.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

Rieder · Johann Jaritz

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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rieder), 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. St. Cyriakus Saint Cyriakus is a medieval church in Gernrode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. 2.3 km · 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. 3.4 km · mountain in the Harz, Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96lbergsh%C3%B6he)
3. 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](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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/schkeuditz-to-rieder) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Schkeuditz&to=Rieder)
- Erfurt → Rieder 85 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · €13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/erfurt-to-rieder) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Erfurt&to=Rieder)
- Calden → Rieder 127 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · €19–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/calden-to-rieder) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Calden&to=Rieder)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Rieder)

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 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 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 452 km
2. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 490 km
3. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 682 km
4. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 853 km
5. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 875 km

If you know how people move in Rieder – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Crieder&title=Rieder&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Frieder), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Rieder

- [Gernrode](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gernrode) human settlement in Quedlinburg, Germany 2.1 km
- [Gernrode/Harz Administrative Community](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gernrode-harz-administrative-community) district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany 3 km

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