Founded in 2000, the FrauenOrte (Women's Places) project has embarked on a search for traces of historical female personalities, bringing important women's stories to life at over 50 locations. On display are different living spaces and concepts of remarkable 'daughters of the region' who have achieved outstanding things in political, social, cultural, scientific or economic terms. While Drübeck Abbey on the 'Romanesque Road', for example, 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 find out 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 to the reconstruction after the Thirty Years' War.

Between 950 and 1250, the region that is now Saxony-Anhalt developed into a political and cultural center of Europe under the rule of the Ottonians. Hardly any other federal state in Saxony-Anhalt has preserved the legacy of this heyday in such splendor and diversity. Since 2007, the "Romanesque Route" has been networked throughout Europe and is part of the TRANSROMANICA European Cultural Route, which has been designated by the Council of Europe and links Romanesque buildings in Saxony-Anhalt, Austria, Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Romania and Serbia. Like a string of pearls, over ten monasteries and cathedrals, treasure chambers, village churches, castles and palaces along the R1 European cycle route bear witness to a pioneering period of German and European history in the Middle Ages.