Hotels Near Huysburg, Halberstadt

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Huysburg is a Benedictine monastery situated on the Huy hill range near Halberstadt, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The Romanesque abbey has existed since about 1080 and was secularised in 1804. A new Benedictine community was founded in 1972 and is headed by a prior since 1984.

Remains of a circular rampart denote a Frankish castle at the site, erected about 790 AD during the Saxon Wars of Charlemagne. When in the mid 10th century Emperor Otto I built his residence in Magdeburg on the Elbe river, the strategical significance of the Huy fortress decreased. In 997 Emperor Otto III ceded it to the Bishops of Halberstadt.

The first abbot, Ekkehard of Huysburg, a canon of Halberstadt Cathedral, was appointed on 24 December 1080 and ordained on 21 June 1081; he died three years later. The convent received extended manors by Bishop Burchard and from 1114 onwards was vested with further estates by Burchard's successor Bishop Reinhard.

After World War II, the Knesebeck noble family was disseized by the Soviet occupation forces. Huysburg again became an ecclesiastical site, when a branch seminary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paderborn was set up here in 1952 for those parts of the diocese lying in East Germany.

Luxe fachwerkhaus am Huy Schlanstedt
9.3/10 Wonderful
Free Wi-Fi Free private parking

Luxe fachwerkhaus am Huy has inner courtyard views, free Wi-Fi and free private parking, situated in Schlanstedt, 21 km from Motorsport Arena Oschersleben. There is a private entrance at the holiday home for the convenience of those who stay.

Number of rooms: 3

19 Schmiedestraße, 38838 Schlanstedt, Germany