The Schloßberg was already the center of settlement in the early Middle Ages. On a naturally grown sandstone rock, which rises as a steep cliff from the surroundings, King Henry I had a palace built at the beginning of the 10th century. He was also buried there in 936. The women's monastery of the Ottonian dynasty, which was built on the same site immediately after his death, was responsible for the salvation of the dead king's soul (memoria) and was also a place of education and care for the daughters of the high nobility.
Only about 500 m away from the castle hill, in the valley, surrounded by a tributary of the Bode, lay the royal court at the Wipertikirche, which had already belonged to King Heinrich's father. Between this and the castle hill stretched, with great probability, the extensive economic facilities of the palatinate. They were necessary to supply and accommodate the ruler with his entourage, which could number up to a thousand people, during his stays in Quedlinburg.
The Quedlinburg Collegiate Church of St. Servatii is one of the most important buildings of the Romanesque period. The flat-roofed basilica, consecrated in 1129, already had three predecessor buildings. King Heinrich was buried here in 936.
The residential buildings of the former convent house the castle museum.
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