Craftsmanship, architecture and landscapes give the Börde its many different facets. The Hundisburg Brickworks Industrial Monument combines a brickworks and a technology museum featuring brick production using the hand-striking method, a coarse ceramics workshop for shaping and pottery, a building materials manufactory and a carpentry workshop. Brickmaking and a range of workshop activities are thus brought together in one place.
Industrial history in Hundisburg
A historic narrow-gauge railway adds a visitor ride of about 2 kilometres to the Industrial Monument. It passes historic kilns, a bucket-chain excavator and the former clay pit. The ride connects very different traces of the brickworks: firing technology, a heavy piece of excavation equipment and the former site of clay extraction.
Castle, garden and Romanesque architecture
Hundisburg Castle is one of the most important rural Baroque castles in Saxony-Anhalt and is distinguished by its historic gardens and parkland. The Baroque garden showcases perfect symmetry and detailed garden design. While the brickworks puts technology and production centre stage, the castle’s focus is on architecture and landscaped gardens.
The “Romanesque Road” includes ten different sites for visitors in the Börde district. Churches, monasteries, castles, fortresses, museums and historic buildings are among the Börde’s attractions. Numerous castles, fortresses and manor houses document the former wealth of the landed gentry. The ten sites on the Romanesque Road add their own distinct theme to the broader historical offering.
From black earth to heathland
The landscape also shifts in character. The Börde district stretches from the fertile Börde in the south, Germany’s largest continuous area of black earth, to the meadows and wetlands of the Drömling in the north. Wooded ridges and the Colbitz-Letzlingen Heath define the centre of the district. In the wider region, the Colbitz-Letzlingen Heath is considered the largest contiguous heathland area in Central Europe; it includes Europe’s largest continuous lime forest. It extends from the Altmark in the north to the Ohre and the Mittelland Canal in the south, near Magdeburg.
The Drömling in the wider region
The Drömling is a sparsely populated lowland area of about 340 km² on the border between Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. Its larger eastern part in Saxony-Anhalt has been a nature park since 1990. The lowland, with the Mittelland Canal and the rivers Aller and Ohre, is a refuge for rare and endangered animal and plant species. The landscape therefore offers a different focus from the forests and heathland in the centre of the district.
Culture in the wider destination of Saxony-Anhalt
The wider destination of Saxony-Anhalt offers an additional perspective on culture and design: the state has six UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The Bauhaus Dessau is a UNESCO World Heritage Site; the Bauhaus building, the Masters’ Houses and the Törten housing estate invite visitors to take guided tours, join workshops and discuss design and society. The “Experimental Site Bauhaus. The Collection” traces the history of the Bauhaus school in Dessau. This distinct cultural highlight belongs to Saxony-Anhalt and complements the picture of the Börde without replacing the district’s own destinations.
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