Faces of Fear or Envy?
Who's sticking his tongue out at whom here! At an envious neighbour berhaps or merely defiantly; maybe, at ghosts and demons. The ornamentation on the half-timbered houses is rich and varied. Fillets, blind arcades and palmettes. Details entice the eye of the beholder and arrest his attention. Duderstadt is a living textbook of architectural history; More that 550 half-timbered houses, ranging in style from Gothic to Classicism, and all lovingly restored and maintained by the townspeople with that traditional Duderstadt fondness. Here, where merchants once set up their market, the town council and the law court later held session.

The Town's Churches
The town's churches are very special, Eichsfeld architectural gems. Look, for example, at the guild chandeliers in the Church of St. Cyriakus. Which chandelier belongs to which guild? It's a riddle that children, too, will enjoy solving.
The town wall and the ramparts are tangible reminders of bygone days. The 1,200 meters of the preserved and restored wall (much of it is passable on foot) now serve a new purpose. Today, as ever, it still protects the town - not from enemies, as it once did, but from the noise and hectic bustle of modern life.

The Westerturm Tower
This tower boasts a twisted slate-roofed spire. And no, the Duderstadt builders weren't drunk when, in the 14th century, they constructed it; nor did, according to legend, the devil build it - Just one of the many droll Eichsfeld stories told in Duderstadt.

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