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Quedlinburg Abbey
was a house of
secular canonesses
(
Frauenstift
)
in
Quedlinburg
in what is now
Saxony-Anhalt
, Germany. It was founded in 936 on the initiative of
Saint Matilda
, the widow of King
Henry the Fowler
, as his memorial. For many centuries, the abbey and its abbesses enjoyed great prestige and influence. Quedlinburg Abbey was an
Imperial Estate
and one of the approximately forty self-ruling Imperial Abbeys of the
Holy Roman Empire
and was disestablished in 1802/3. Today, the mostly
Romanesque
buildings are a UNESCO
World Heritage Site
.
Photograph credit:
Alexander Savin
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2019 August
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2019 August 22
2019 August 24
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Picture of the day
Quedlinburg Abbey
was a house of
secular canonesses
(
Frauenstift
)
in
Quedlinburg
in what is now
Saxony-Anhalt
, Germany. It was founded in 936 on the initiative of
Saint Matilda
, the widow of King
Henry the Fowler
, as his memorial. For many centuries, the abbey and its abbesses enjoyed great prestige and influence. Quedlinburg Abbey was an
Imperial Estate
and one of the approximately forty self-ruling Imperial Abbeys of the
Holy Roman Empire
and was disestablished in 1802/3. Today, the mostly
Romanesque
buildings are a UNESCO
World Heritage Site
.
Photograph credit:
Alexander Savin
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