The project FrauenOrte (Women's Places), which was founded in 2000, has set out in search of traces of historical women's personalities, bringing significant women's stories to life at over 50 locations. Different living spaces and designs of remarkable 'daughters of the region' are shown, who have achieved outstanding things in political, social, cultural, scientific or economic terms. While Drübeck Monastery on the "Romanesque Road" focuses on its eventful history from 960 onwards with regard to its great female personalities, in Quedlinburg everything revolves around women's education in the Klopstock House and in the birth and death house of Dr. Dorothea Erxleben, Germany's first female doctor. You can then learn more about Henriette Catharina at the former Dessau Palace and Oranienbaum Palace. The former Princess of Anhalt-Dessau brought important economic and cultural impulses from the modern Netherlands during the reconstruction after the Thirty Years' War.

Between 950 and 1250, the region of what is now Saxony-Anhalt developed into a political and cultural center of Europe under the rule of the Ottonians. As hardly in any other federal state, the legacies from this heyday have been preserved in Saxony-Anhalt in such splendor and diversity. Since 2007, the "Romanesque Road" has been networked throughout Europe and is part of the European Cultural Route TRANSROMANICA, designated by the Council of Europe, which links Romanesque buildings in Saxony-Anhalt, Austria, Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Romania and Serbia. As if strung on a string of pearls, more than ten monasteries and cathedrals, treasuries, village churches, castles and palaces present themselves along the European Cycle Route R1 as contemporary witnesses of a pioneering era of German and European history of the Middle Ages.

The Harz region is rich in high-quality products, culinary specialties and traditional crafts. More and more are awarded with the regional brand "Typisch Harz". When awarding the label, in addition to the criteria to be met by the respective product group, the qualitative value of the product plays a central role according to the principle of "class instead of mass". The label "Typisch Harz" is awarded in nine product groups.
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In the middle of Corona time came the idea for a very special community project - A good, regional coffee as a delicious souvenir for home. The World Heritage Coffee is a cooperation project of the World Heritage Region Anhalt-Dessau-Wittenberg e.V. and the regional coffee roasters Hannemann Köthen and Kaffeemänner Aschersleben. Both coffee roasters is located on the Europaradweg R1.
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