Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg
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How it came to be
Quedlinburg, in Saxony-Anhalt in central Germany, first appears in 922 in a record of a donation by King Henry I, the Fowler. After Henry died in 936 his widow, Matilda, founded a community of noblewomen on the castle hill to pray for him and the rulers who followed.
The palace on the hill became a seat of the Saxon emperors. In 973 Otto I held an imperial assembly there attended by the dukes of Poland and Bohemia and envoys from as far as Byzantium. In 994 Otto III granted rights of market, tolls and coinage, and the town prospered on trade.
Town and abbey turned Lutheran in 1539, and the abbey was dissolved in 1802. The town keeps a great many timber-framed houses, and the Collegiate Church of St Servatius is counted a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture. It was inscribed in 1994.
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