{"id":39627,"date":"2023-12-02T06:19:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T06:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miamiheatnation.com\/?p=39627"},"modified":"2023-12-02T06:19:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T06:19:48","slug":"the-pretty-town-frozen-in-time-that-has-one-of-europes-best-christmas-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miamiheatnation.com\/world-news\/the-pretty-town-frozen-in-time-that-has-one-of-europes-best-christmas-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"The pretty town frozen in time that has one of Europe\u2019s best Christmas markets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Germany has been at the heart of many of Europe’s wars in the last century.<\/p>\n

Two global conflicts ravaged the country, leaving much of its ancient splendours completely flattened.<\/p>\n

Many who have visited some of the country’s biggest cities, while impressive, will no doubt have been disappointed by the fact that little remains in the way of history older than 50 years.<\/p>\n

But look outside the cities and you will find a thriving town scene, one in which whole settlements stand just as they did during the Medieval period, half-timbered houses painted in dazzling colours and looking… well… very, very German.<\/p>\n

Quedlinburg is one of these towns, a once influential trading post that today hosts what has been described as one of Europe’s best and most authentic Christmas markets.<\/p>\n

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The town of Quedlinburg has existed since at least the early 9th century and has often been described as Germany’s first capital.<\/p>\n

This is because Henry the Fowler, in 919, was offered the German crown at Quedlinburg by Franconian nobles, giving rise to the town being known as the origin point of the German Reich.<\/p>\n

In the hundreds of years that followed, Quedlinburg was built up and out, cobbled stone being laid to make way for pedestrians and horse-drawn carts, with its beautiful timbered houses in tow.<\/p>\n

Henry, later known as King Henry I, only reinforced the town’s importance when he commissioned the construction of a great castle to be built on one of Quedlinburg’s vast hills.<\/p>\n

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