Location of the hotel
The half-timbered Hotel "Vorhof zur Hölle" (4 holiday homes/ 1 single room) is so centrally located that you can reach the most important sights in Quedlinburg on foot in just a matter of minutes.
From the hotel you walk through the covered passageway of the building which formerly housed the shoemakers`guild (1561) in "Schuhhof" straight through to the market square where the Town Hall ("Rathaus"), (originally build in 1310, extended between 1550-1616) and further guild houses are located.
From the market square you proceed through Blasiistraße (Church of St. Blasius, toy museum with its wonderful collection of model railways, the „Lüdde“ Brewery, where the dark beer with the obscene name .... is brewed) via Lange Gasse and „Finkenherd“ (historical legend of "Heinrich dem Vogler"- Henry I, also called Henry the Fowler) to Castle Hill "Schlossberg".
The Hotel "Vorhof zur Hölle" is at maximum a 15 minute walk from the castle.
With its collegiate church (tombs of Henry I and Mathilde, his wife and of Mathilde the first abbess of the convent, his granddaughter) and its 94 ha large complex of half-timbered houses, Quedlinburg has been one of the Unesco World Heritage Sites since 1989.
If you would like a different view of the Schlossberg, all you have to do is climb the 104 steps to the „Münzenberg“. Sadly, only the foundation wall of the Convent of St. Mary (founded around 1000 by Abbess Mathilde) remains. However, apart from the picturesque houses, you will also find a small convent museum and a café there.
From the Hotel "Vorhof zur Hölle" it is at maximum a 15-20 minute walk..
The Church of St. Nicholas (with its look-out) is located in the „new town“ (which has existed since 1310).
Walk from the hotel via „Hölle“ and „Damm“ directly to „Pölkenstraße“ (in mediaeval times, „polk“ was the word for a male pig!!!) - 5 minutes.
The „Ständerbau“, one of the oldest half-timbered houses in the town (around 1300), and in factthe only one of its kind, a "Hochständerbau", which today houses a museum showing the history of half-timbered construction work, is located in „Word“, right behind the market square, 3 minutes from the hotel.
The Lyonel-Feininger Gallery is located on "Schlossberg".
The German-American painter and graphic artist (1871-1956) is one of the most well-known representatives of Classical Modernism.
The largest collection of his graphics in Europe is to be found in Quedlinburg (works between 1906 and 1937 as well as a number of paintings from his earlier creative period, the most famous of which being the "Self Portrait with Clay Pipe" dating from 1910).
Dr. Hermann Klumpp, a citizen of Quedlinburg saved the works of art from destruction by the Nazi regime.
15 minutes from the Hotel "Vorhof zur Hölle".
Just a few metres further on you will find the „Klopstockhaus“
This house, which was in the possession of the Klopstock family from 1702 until 1817, is where the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was born on 2nd July 1724. In 1899, on his 175th birthday, the house was handed over to the public as a museum. After the last extensive reconstruction of the house some years ago, exhibitions about further famous personalities of 18th century Quedlinburg such as Johann Friedrich GutsMuths und Dorothea Erxleben were added.