Discover Sangerhausen
Accommodation in Sangerhausen
Sangerhausen brings together roses, historic architecture, mining history and hiking. When looking for a hotel in Sangerhausen, you can consider which focus you want your stay to have: roses, city history, mining or hiking.
Rose Collection and the Development of Roses
The Europa-Rosarium in Sangerhausen is considered the world’s largest rose collection. It presents more than 8,700 rose species and varieties in a wide range of shapes, colors and scents. At the same time, it serves as a gene bank and living museum, documenting the development of roses from wild species to modern varieties. The diversity of the collection and the history of the rose’s development are presented side by side.
Historic Town Center and St. Jacobi Church
Sangerhausen’s protected historic town center preserves a great deal of building fabric from the 15th to the 18th century; the city’s historical development is visible there almost unchanged. Guided city tours are one way to explore the historic town center.
St. Jacobi Church is a late Gothic, three-aisled hall church, built between 1457 and 1542. The 61-meter-high tower leans 1.71 meters to the west and bears a gilded moon-pointer clock. The church houses a mechanical organ by Zacharias Hildebrandt, built between 1726 and 1728. It has 30 stops and 1,908 pipes. The building’s design, tower and organ offer different points of interest if you are interested in architecture and historic features.
Museums and Mining History
The Spengler Museum presents local and regional history through an almost completely preserved mammoth skeleton, Neolithic finds, and exhibitions on the region’s mining history and geology. The Röhrigschacht Museum focuses on the 800-year history of copper slate mining in the Mansfeld region and shows the physical working conditions of miners underground. The two museums have different focuses, ranging from mammoths and Stone Age finds to the history and work of mining.
Hiking and Planning Excursions
The Hohe Linde circular trail is 10.5 kilometers long, starts and ends at Sangerhausen station, and leads through mixed forest and meadows to the Hohe Linde mining landscape. Hohe Linde is a mining monument. For planning, both the trail length and its starting and finishing point at the station provide clear reference points.
In the district of Wettelrode, hiking trails connect the Kalmusgrund landscape, the Kunstteich pond, the mining educational trail and historic mining features. The routes differ in their layout: the Hohe Linde trail is a named circular route with a set start and finish, while several landscape and mining themes are connected by hiking trails in Wettelrode.
Mansfeld-SĂĽdharz as a Wider Travel Destination
The wider travel destination of Mansfeld-SĂĽdharz includes other cultural and hiking themes. In Eisleben, the Luther sites include the houses where Martin Luther was born and died. The long-distance network of Luther trails runs for more than 81 kilometers through Mansfeld-SĂĽdharz, passing important Reformation sites. The monastery church of St. Mary in Klostermansfeld is also part of the Romanesque Road cultural route. It was probably built around 1140 as a three-aisled Romanesque basilica belonging to a Benedictine monastery; 1170 is considered its official founding year.
Discover more destinations: Wippra, Allstedt, Seegebiet Mansfelder Land, Stangerode, Berga, Lutherstadt Eisleben, Hergisdorf, Hettstedt.
Back to the wider travel overview: Mansfeld-SĂĽdharz.
