Nienburg Abbey
The monastery Nienburg was a Benedictine monastery in Nienburg an der Saale in Salzlandkreis, Saxony- Anhalt.
History
The "New Castle " ( = Nienburg ) was built 930-950 On the area. With the aim to proselytize the then Sorbian population of the region, was laid in the year 975, which was founded in Thank Champ de Mars in resin 970 Benedictine Abbey in the castle. The remodeling work lasted over 30 years.
It was only on August 8, 1004, the abbey church survived until today was King Henry II consecrated in the presence, who was on campaign against the Poles. At the same time the city received the markets and mint coins. The monastery was declared emperor Otto II to a monastery Empire. It soon developed into one of the richest monasteries in the region. The monastery belonged numerous possessions and places, including Harzgerode, Niemi sealed and Lubben. They were, however, isolated scattered between resin and Lusatian Neisse. Even in 1115 threatened insurgent Sorbs last time the territories of the monastery Nienburg.
To 1073 made Count Adalbert (of Ballenstedt ), the grandfather of Albert the Bear, the monastery several donations. 1166, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, the monastery and the castle Nienburg Freckleben the archbishopric of Magdeburg in exchange for his possessions on the Rhine - Castle Schoenburg, Oberwesel the village and the farm Jugenheim. It was therefore necessary Margrave Albert the Bear of Brandenburg to finally futile resistance his most extensive of the kingdom as a fief advocacy of the Nienburger monastery from the Archbishop of Magdeburg take a fief. Between Albrecht's grandson, Prince Heinrich of Anhalt, and the Nienburger abbots, there was a bitter dispute, which ended in 1239 with the circumcision of the rights of the bailiff. As a result of the Reformation and the Peasants' War, it was in 1563 transferred to the Prince of Anhalt - Köthen, who renovated the enclosure building from 1680 to 1690, to use it as a castle and a widow's residence.
In 1871 the castle was sold to an industrialist, who converted the building into a malt factory. 1996 parts thereof were destroyed by a fire that was caused by children playing.
The thousand year old monastery church well preserved St. Marien and St. Cyprian of 1004 is one of the most important early Gothic buildings in central Germany. It belongs to the Evangelical Church of Anhalt and is used ecumenically today. The church is a station on the Romantic Road.