Quedlinburg in a sentence

Each year, 80,000 people make their way up to the hilltop cathedral to visit the treasury beneath the Quedlinburg Cathedral, where many of them are told the bizarre story of the audacious robbery.

The Reliquary of St. Servatius: What visitors to Quedlinburg come to see today is just the "external, valuable containers," say the curators.

There you will find the stand selling a delicacy found only in Quedlinburg – harzer fichteln, pork and veal sausages flavoured with an unusual ingredient, pine needles.

After this battle, Mieszko and Odo were called to the Imperial Diet in Quedlinburg in 973 to explain and justify their conduct.

Bus Quedlinburg is connected by regional buses to the surrounding villages and small towns.

During Quedlinburg's Communist era restoration specialists from Poland were called in during the 1980s to carry out repairs on the old architecture.

In 2006, the Selke Valley branch of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways was extended into Quedlinburg from Gernrode, giving access to the historic steam narrow-gauge railway, Alexisbad, and high Harz plateau.

In all this time, ladies ruled Quedlinburg as abbesses without "taking the veil"; they were free to marry.

In the 1980s, upon the death of one of the US military men, the theft of medieval art from Quedlinburg came to light.

Mieszko may have been motivated by revenge because of the (presumably) negative verdict of the Quedlinburg summit, but may be more importantly he wanted more favorable terms for his cooperation with Germany.

Oda returned to Germany and entered in the Abbey of Quedlinburg as a nun, where she died almost thirty years after her husband, in 1023.

Otto II then brought the rebels before the Imperial Diet in Quedlinburg on March 31, 978. Boleslaus II was treated with honors and swore loyalty to Otto II.

Prespa Fortess In 973, the Cometopuli sent envoys to the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I in Quedlinburg in an attempt to secure the protection of their lands.

Quedlinburg has a population of more than 24,000.

Quedlinburg was administered within Bezirk Halle while part of the Communist East Germany from 1949 to 1990.

The "Annals of Magdeburg," " Thietmar of Merseburg 's Chronicle," various works of Magdeburg Bishops, the " Annals of Quedlinburg " and many other written sources of 11th-15th centuries record this story.

The former Stiftskirche St. Wiperti was established in 936 when the Kanonikerstift St. Wigpertus (of male canons) was moved from the castle hill to make way for what became Quedlinburg Abbey.

The theory was based on the allegation that Mieszko's son, who was to be placed by order of Otto I in 973 as a hostage after the Imperial Diet of Quedlinburg, couldn't be Bolesław I the Brave because he was too young.

The treasure of the church containing ancient Christian religious artifacts and books, was stolen by an American soldier but brought back to Quedlinburg in 1993 and is again on display here.

This fact is confirmed in the chronicle of Thietmar: ::There arrived (at the Diet of Quedlinburg ) also, among many other princes: Mieszko, Mściwoj and Boleslav and promised to support him under oath as the king and ruler.