Stiftskirche St. Servatius (Collegiate Church of St. Servatius)

Stiftskirche St. Servatius (Collegiate Church of St. Servatius) Review

The simple, graceful Stiftskirche St. Servatius is one of the most important and best-preserved 12th-century Romanesque structures in Germany. Henry I and his wife Mathilde are buried in its crypt. The renowned Quedlinburg Treasure of 10th-, 11th-, and 12th-century gold and silver and bejeweled manuscripts is also kept here (what's left of it). In Nazi days SS leader Heinrich Himmler made the church into a shrine dedicated to the SS, insisting that it was only appropriate, since Henry I was the founder of the first German Reich.