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Wernigerode

The colourful town in the Harz, with a half-timbered old town and a castle. Steam trains of the Harz narrow-gauge railways leave from the main station, all the way up the Brocken.

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Places to stay
17
Houses
4
Brocken
12 km as the crow flies
Tourist tax
€3.50 per person/night
Guest card
WERNIGERODEticket

Since 1910 Wernigerode has officially called itself the colourful town in the Harz. Much of the old town is made up of half-timbered houses, and on the market square stands the town hall with its two pointed oriel towers, built between 1494 and 1498. Above the town rises the castle, which got its present form in the late 19th century. From Forckestraße, Grüne Straße and Albert-Bartels-Straße you are in the centre within a few minutes, and at Mühlental the forest starts right behind the house.

The steam trains of the Harz narrow-gauge railways start at the main station and run via Drei Annen Hohne and Schierke up to the 1,141-metre Brocken. On foot you can follow the rocky Steinerne Renne gorge, and the Christianental wildlife park lies right next to the Mühlental valley. With the guest card, buses in town and across most of the Harz are free.

Worth a visit around Wernigerode

Distances as the crow flies from the nearest of our houses.

  • Wernigerode Castle

    < 1 km

    Two tours through almost 40 rooms show how the princely family lived in the second half of the 19th century; walk up or take the little castle train.

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  • Town Hall on the Market Square

    < 1 km

    The half-timbered town hall with its two pointed oriel towers from 1494 to 1498 is the town’s landmark, right at the heart of an old town full of half-timbered houses.

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  • Brocken Railway (Harz Narrow-Gauge Railways)

    < 1 km

    From Wernigerode the steam trains climb via Drei Annen Hohne and Schierke, without a rack, to the Brocken station at 1,125 metres.

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  • Steinerne Renne Gorge

    4 km

    From Steinerne Renne station you hike up the rocky Holtemme gorge, about 2.5 km long with many small waterfalls; if you keep going, the Höllenstieg path leads on up the Brocken.

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  • Christianental Wildlife Park

    1 km

    In a side valley of the Mühlental you’ll see red deer, fallow deer, mouflon, wild boar, lynx and wildcats, plus a petting enclosure and a playground.

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  • “Little Harz” Miniature Park

    1 km

    Around 60 Harz landmarks in miniature, from Goslar’s imperial palace to the Brocken, right next to the Bürgerpark with its themed gardens and playgrounds.

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  • Rappbode Dam

    12 km

    At 106 metres the dam wall is the highest in Germany, and right next to it the 483-metre Titan RT suspension bridge crosses the valley.

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  • Rübeland Caves

    9 km

    In Rübeland you can tour the Baumannshöhle, Germany’s oldest show cave, and the Hermannshöhle with its olms.

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Our houses

Nightly prices from 1 guest, including final cleaning. Tourist tax is extra: Bad Harzburg €3.00, Wernigerode €3.50, Goslar-Vienenburg €3.30 per adult and night; children pay less or nothing. Final prices, including VAT where the landlord charges it. You see the exact price once you choose dates and guests. Ratings: overall score of the apartment on Booking.com (scale 1 to 10) with the number of reviews next to it. Booking.com shows reviews for 36 months at most and gives more weight to recent ones. As of September 2026. Only guests who booked through Booking.com and arrived can rate there; we do not check the scores ourselves. We show scores of 8.0 and above.

Getting there

By train

Wernigerode Hauptbahnhof is served by the regional express lines RE 4 (Goslar–Halle) and RE 21 (Goslar–Magdeburg). From Hannover, take the RE 10 to Goslar and change there; from Berlin, travel via Magdeburg. From the main station it is about 1.6 km on foot to Forckestraße and about 2.3 km to Mühlental; Albert-Bartels-Straße and Grüne Straße are just a few minutes' walk from the main station.

By car

Take the A 36 (Braunschweig–Bernburg) to the Wernigerode-Nord or Wernigerode-Mitte exit. From the A 7, leave at Rhüden, take the B 82 to Goslar and continue via the B 6 and A 369 to the A 36; from the A 14, join the A 36 at the Bernburg interchange.

WERNIGERODEticket

The spa tax gets you the guest card from us, the WERNIGERODEticket. Together with photo ID it works as your HATIX ticket on Wernigerode’s town buses and on buses across most of the Harz, including the Goslar district and the former Osterode district. You also get a coupon booklet with discounts in Wernigerode and Schierke. The Harz narrow-gauge railways are not included. Details

Questions before booking?

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