a town of Prussia, in the province of Saxony and circle of Magdeburg, on the Bode, 35 miles S.W. of Magdeburg. It is well built, and encircled by walls flanked with towers, and entered by ten gates. Its most conspicuous edifice is the castle, which rises on a sandstone rock above the rest of the town. It was the residence of the abbesses of Quedlinburg, who, as princesses of the empire, had a vote in the Diet, and a seat in the bench of bishops. The church, which was partly built in the eleventh, and partly in the fourteenth century, contains the graves of the Emperor Henry I., and his wife Matilda; of Aurora Maria, Countess of Konigsmark, and mother of Marshal Saxe; and of several abbesses of Quedlinburg. The castle is now used as a seminary for young ladies of rank. The town-hall of Quedlinburg contains numerous specimens of ancient armour, plate, and portraits, as well as a manuscript of the ancient code of law called the Sachsenpiegel. Here is also shown a large and strong chest in which Albert Count of Reinstein was confined for 20 months by the citizens of Quedlinburg. The town contains a gymnasium and several hospitals, including one for orphans and another for the deaf-and-dumb. Woollen cloth, beet-root sugar, and brandy are manufactured here; and a trade in corn is carried on. The poet Klopstock was born here in 1724. Pop. (1852) 14,238.