Best Western Hotel Schlossmühle

At the foot of the Schlossberg castle hill, the Best Western Hotel Schlossmuehle, Quedlinburg, Germany, is a characterful hotel with comfortable rooms, free Wi-Fi and satellite TV, a spacious lobby and bar, a fireplace room and a historic vaulted cellar, conference rooms with a foyer, a summer terrace, and on-site parking. A short walk from the door, the UNESCO-listed old town unfolds in some 1,200 half-timbered houses spread over several centuries, with winding alleys and little squares that tempt you to linger. The Feininger art gallery sits close by. Quedlinburg is one of Europe's largest preserved old towns, a former royal seat north of the Harz mountains. Above the rooftops, the collegiate church and castle crown the Schlossberg, the cobbled lanes brim with timber-framed houses, and just to the south rises the Harz National Park, whose Brocken, the highest peak in northern Germany, can be reached on foot or by a puffing steam railway. Goethe's climb of the Brocken inspired his masterpiece, Faust.