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    Memleben is a village and part of the Kaiserpfalz municipality of the Burgenlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is known for former Memleben...
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    Memleben Abbey (German: Kloster Memleben) was a Benedictine monastery in Memleben on the Unstrut river, today part of the Kaiserpfalz municipality in...
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    establishing a Benedictine Imperial abbey there: the Memleben Abbey. Within a short time, the Memleben Abbey had become one of the richest and most influential...
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    April 972. Otto finally returned to Germany in August 972 and died at Memleben in May 973. Otto II succeeded him. Otto has been consistently depicted...
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    the German eastward expansion (Ostsiedlung). 936: Upon Henry's death at Memleben, his son Otto I succeeded him. According to Widukind, he was crowned king...
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    returned in 955 and were defeated again. One of his favourite places was Memleben on the Unstrut, where a royal residence, a so-called Pfalz, palatium or...
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  • Wohlmirstedt (Wolmerstede) is for 786. In 998 it came into possession of Memleben Abbey. Protestant Church St. Maria Magdalena (early 16th century) Website...
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    married the Carolingian king Louis IV of France. After Henry's death 936 in Memleben, he was buried in Quedlinburg. It was here that Queen Matilda founded a...
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    Quedlinburg Abbey, established by his wife Matilda in his honour. Born in Memleben, in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Henry was the son of Otto the Illustrious...
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    Memleben Abbey, crypt...
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