Quedlinburg Abbey
Burial place · School or library
monastery in Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Location: 51.7859, 11.1368
What this place is
- School or library — The Ottonian house of canonesses whose library and scriptorium served the imperial family that founded it.
Who is recorded here
- Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg burial · AD 999
- Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg death · AD 999
- Adelaide I burial · AD 1044
- Adelaide I death · AD 1044
In art
About the place
Quedlinburg Abbey is a former abbey of secular canonesses (Frauenstift) in Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was founded in 936 on the initiative of Saint Matilda, the widow of the East Frankish King Henry the Fowler, as his memorial. For many centuries it and its abbesses enjoyed great prestige and influence.
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