Princely Abbey of Corvey
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How it came to be
In 815 Emperor Louis the Pious announced a new abbey east of the Weser. The first monks arrived in 816 and moved in 822 to the present site, which they called New Corbie. In 823 Ansgar, later known as the Apostle of Scandinavia, founded the abbey school.
The westwork built between 873 and 885 is the only westwork of its time still standing. Inside are life-size stucco figures and mythological friezes, and its wall paintings are the only known Carolingian example of ancient myth given a Christian reading. In the 10th century Widukind, educated at the abbey school, wrote his Deeds of the Saxons.
In 1508 a manuscript of books 1 to 6 of Tacitus's Annals was found here. The abbey was secularised in 1803, and from 1860 to 1874 the poet Hoffmann von Fallersleben, author of the Deutschlandlied, was its librarian. Corvey was inscribed in 2014.
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