Quedlin­burg, in the Land of Sach­sen-Anhalt, was a cap­i­tal of the East Fran­con­ian Ger­man Empire at the time of the Sax­on­ian-Otton­ian rul­ing dynasty. It has been a pros­per­ous trad­ing town since the Mid­dle Ages. The num­ber and high qual­i­ty of the tim­ber-framed build­ings make Quedlin­burg an excep­tion­al exam­ple of a medieval Euro­pean town. The Col­le­giate Church of St Ser­vatius is one of the mas­ter­pieces of Romanesque archi­tec­ture.