Germany Guide
Saxony-Anhalt and the Harz
Naumburg
With lanes of tidy half-timbered houses fanning out from a central Marktplatz, NAUMBURG is a modest and attractive market-town that would certainly be worth a visit even without the spectacle of the four-spired Naumburger Dom which rears up on the town's eastern side, and is what makes a trip here really worthwhile. The other reason to visit is the Kirschfest, a big shindig that breaks Naumburg's usual sleepy peace on the last weekend of June. A parade, fireworks and a fair celebrate the town's history, in particular an incident when the town's children confronted a Czech army that was laying siege to the town, and politely requested that the army depart so that the townsfolk could eat again, which, to everyone's delight, they duly did.