Since December 1994 the old town of Quedlinburg and the castle mount with the collegiate church are listed as one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.

There was probably rivalry between the Benedictine Monastery of St Maurice founded at Magdeburg by Otto and Eadgyth in 937, a year after coming to the throne and Matilda's foundation at Quedlinburg Abbey, intended by her as a memorial to her husband, the late King Henry I.

Matilda bore him three sons, one called Otto, and two daughters, Hedwig and Gerberga and founded many religious institutions, including the abbey of Quedlinburg where Henry is buried, and was later canonized.

St. Mathilda founded many religious institutions, including the canonry of Quedlinburg, which became a center of ecclesiastical and secular life in Germany under the rule of the Ottonian dynasty, as well as the convents of St. Wigbert in Quedlinburg, in Pöhlde, Enger and Nordhausen in Thuringia, likely the source of at least one of her vitae.

Former collegiate church of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg, founded in 936 by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, at the request of his mother Matilda of Ringelheim | Queen Matilda, in honour of her late husband, Otto's father, King Henry the Fowler, and as his memorial

Until the dissolution of Holy Roman Empire and mediatization of smaller imperial fiefs by Napoleon, the evangelical Abbess of Quedlinburg was also per officio the head of that reichsunmittelbar state.

He was buried at Quedlinburg Abbey, established by his wife Matilda in his honor.

Matilda died at Quedlinburg, outliving her husband by 32 years.

Mieszko may have been motivated by revenge because of the ( presumably ) negative verdict of the Quedlinburg summit, but may be more importantly he wanted more favorable terms for his cooperation with Germany.

Quedlinburg was forced to leave the Hanseatic League and was subsequently protected by the Electorate of Saxony.

The Domschatz, the treasure containing ancient artefacts and books, was stolen by an American soldier and finally bought back to Quedlinburg in 1993 and is again on display here.

Accompanied by his sister Sophia into Italy, Otto III named his aunt Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg, as his regent in Germany, becoming the first non-duke or bishop to serve in that capacity while the Emperor was away in Italy.

The imperial family was joined by Otto II's sister Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg, King Conrad of Burgundy and his wife, Duke Hugh Capet of France, Duke Otto of Swabia and Bavaria, and other high secular and religious officials from Germany, Italy and France.

It was first mentioned in a document in 993AD as Poztupimi, when Emperor Otto III gifted the territory to the Quedlinburg Abbey, then led by his aunt Matilda.

She bore her husband four daughters: Sophia ( by marriage Princess of Vladimir-Volynia ), Agnes ( later Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim ), Adelaide ( by marriage Countess of Vohburg and Margravine of the Northern March ), and an unnamed daughter ( later wife of a Polish lord ).

It was bounded by ( from the northeast and clockwise ) the districts of Schönebeck, Bernburg, Mansfelder Land, Quedlinburg and Bördekreis.

* Macrobius: The Saturnalia, the Latin text of the critical edition edited by Ludwig von Jan ( Gottfried Bass ; Quedlinburg and Leipzig, 1852 ), web edition by Bill Thayer.

In 1085, Wezilo was excommunicated for simony by the pro-papal synod of Quedlinburg.

The Annals of Quedlinburg mention a missionary, Bruno of Querfurt, who was killed along with 18 men by Yotvingians while attempting to convert the pagans in the area of Lithuania and Prussia in 1009 CE.

Indeed, a cathedral ( Gr. Quedlinburg ) was turned into a shrine by the SS, who planned to treat the cathedrals of Brunswick and Strasbourg in the same way ; in Munich a church was demolished to make way for new Nazi buildings.

Jahrhunderts " ( Quedlinburg, 1837 ), and the Basle manuscript by Richard Maria Werner ( Stuttgart, 1882 ) in " Bibliothek des Literarischen Vereins in Stuttgart ", CLIV.

Among their children, four lived to maturity: Henry, born in 952 ; Bruno, born 953 ; Matilda, the first Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, born about 954 ; and Otto II, later Holy Roman Emperor, born 955.

The main task of this collegiate foundation, Quedlinburg Abbey ( where the Annals of Quedlinburg were compiled ), was to pray for the memory of King Henry and the rulers that came after him.

Those in opposition to Henry II's claims fled to Quedlinburg in Saxony to conspire against Henry II.

Her older five siblings were: Adelaide ( later Abbess of Quedlinburg ), Gisela ( who died in infancy before her birth ), Matilda ( later wife of Rudolf of Rheinfelden, Duke of Swabia and Antiking ), Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Conrad II, Duke of Bavaria ( who also died in infancy ).

In 1139 Henry succeeded in expelling his enemies from Saxony and was preparing to attack Bavaria when he suddenly died in Quedlinburg Abbey.

It was seen as a way of honoring the Hohenstaufen Emperor Heinrich / Henry VI, who raised Heinrich der Reiche / Henry the Rich (+ 1209 ) to the office of provost of the Cloister in Quedlinburg.

While bishops of Gregory VII's party held a Synod in Quedlinburg, at which they denounced and condemned Guibert, partisans of Henry held a rival Synod at Mainz in 1085, where they approved the deposition of Gregory and the elevation of Guibert.

Porete was burnt at the stake in 1310, Eckhart was put on trial in 1327 and other important Christian mystics, such as Jordan von Quedlinburg, Henry Suso and John of Ruysbroek spoke out against the heresy — even though some ( Ruysbroek in particular ) expressed similar ideas such as the immanence of God and the possibility of union with Christ in this life.

After the Welf duke Henry the Lion was placed under Imperial ban in 1180, Eastphalia was increasingly subdivided into smaller states, foremost the Welf Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg and the counties of Anhalt, Wernigerode and Blankenburg as well as the Imperial city of Goslar, but also the ecclesiastical territories of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, the prince-bishoprics of Hildesheim and Halberstadt and Quedlinburg Abbey.

The towns area of inner Quedlinburg is about 78. 15 square kilometre, since the incorporation of 3 towns it grows up to 141. 85 km².

After her husband had died in 936, Matilda and her son Otto established Quedlinburg Abbey in his memory, a convent of noble canonesses, where in 966 her granddaughter Matilda became the first abbess.

In 991 he arrived at a gathering in Quedlinburg, where he participated in the customary exchange of gifts with Otto III and Empress Theophanu.

Only Otto III's mother Theophanu objected, as well as Otto III's grandmother, the Dowager Empress Adelaide of Italy, and his aunt, Abbess Matilda of Quedlinburg.

In 986 the five-year-old Otto III celebrated Easter at Quedlinburg.

Otto II the brought the rebels before the Reichstag in Quedlinburg on March 31, 978.

In 973, the Cometopuli sent envoys to the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I in Quedlinburg in an attempt to secure the protection of their lands.

Through her mother, Richeza was a niece of Emperor Otto III ( who was instrumental to her betrothal ), Adelheid I, Abbess of Quedlinburg and Sophia I, Abbess of Gandersheim.

He dedicated the chronicles to Abbess Matilda of Quedlinburg ( c. 955999 ), daughter of Emperor Otto the Great, like himself a descendant of the Saxon leader Widukind.

In 999 Emperor Otto III assigned the " province " of Gera to the Quedlinburg Abbey.

During Easter of that year, Géza sent a committee to the international peace conference of Emperor Otto I in Quedlinburg.

He plotted to assassinate Otto in Easter 941 in Quedlinburg, but was discovered and put in captivity in Ingelheim, being released after doing penance at Christmas of that year.