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20-544: The settlement of Mimilebo was already mentioned in an urbarium register of Hersfeld Abbey under the rule of Archbishop Lullus of Mainz (died 786). A Hersfeld tithe register , compiled between 881 and 899, again documents the locality of Mimileba in the Saxon shire ( Gau ) of Friesenfeld , west of the Hassegau . Memleben acquired considerable importance under the Saxon dukes of

40-534: A Benedictine monastery near his Kaiserpfalz , which within a short time had become one of the richest and most influential of the Imperial abbeys . Otto II endowed Memleben with large estates and privileges in present-day Thuringia , Saxony-Anhalt and Hesse , several of them formerly held by Hersfeld Abbey, and also tithe privileges in the Friesenfeld and Hassegau counties. The abbey also received Hevelli lands in

60-468: A clean copy, were either stored as a scroll ( German : Rödel ) or the strips of parchment were sewn together to create a codex , or were handwritten on preprinted forms in more recent centuries, as with Empress Maria Theresa 's urbarial survey of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 18th century. Wiehe Wiehe ( German pronunciation: [ˈviːə] ) is a town and a former municipality in

80-616: A royal villa in Memleben. Later greatly enlarged, this Royal Palace ( villa regia or Königspfalz ) became his favourite residence next only to Quedlinburg . In 935, while hunting near the royal palace of Bodfeld in the Harz mountains, King Henry seriously fell ill (presumably from a stroke). According to the reports by Bishop Liutprand of Cremona , he assembled the East Frankish princes in Erfurt

100-474: A stop on the scenic Romanesque Road . Since 2011, the premises are temporarily attended by Benedictine monks from Münsterschwarzach Abbey . 51°17′00″N 11°34′00″E  /  51.2833333333°N 11.5666666667°E  / 51.2833333333; 11.5666666667 Urbarium An urbarium ( German : Urbar , English: urbarium , also rental or rent-roll , Czech : urbář , Polish : urbarz , Slovak : urbár , Hungarian : urbárium ),

120-454: Is a register of fief ownership and includes the rights and benefits that the fief holder has over his serfs and peasants. It is an important economic and legal source of medieval and early modern feudalism . Urbaria were also used to record land rent and stock. Depending on the region and writing materials for these lists they are also called Salbuch , Berain , Heberegister , Erdbuch ( census book) Zins-Rödel or Rodel . The term

140-570: Is from the Old High German ur-beran or the Middle High German erbern for "bring", "create" or "an income derived". It was used for economic, administrative or legal purposes as a directory of real estate, taxation, and the services owed a land holder (such as a monastery or noble) especially in the Habsburg lands. The panels of an urbarium, which may be recopied several times to create

160-628: The Kyffhäuserkreis district, in Thuringia , Germany . Since 1 January 2019, it is part of the town Roßleben-Wiehe . It is situated 24 kilometres (15 mi) south of Sangerhausen , and 32 kilometres (20 mi) north of Weimar . Wiehe is located in the valley of the Unstrut on the northern slope of the Hohe Schrecke , a wooded mountain ridge. State roads 1215 and 1217 are the traffic connections to

180-666: The Northern March (present-day Brandenburg ), which however were lost in the Great Slav Rising of 983, and further territories in the Saxon Eastern March . After the early death of Otto II, his son, Otto III , stayed at the abbey several times. He granted market, mint and customs rights in the Memleben territory in 994 and donated the Thuringian Wiehe estates to the abbey four years later. He even had plans to make it

200-759: The Ottonian dynasty about 900. Duke Otto the Illustrious (d. 912) served as Hersfeld abbot, his son Henry the Fowler married Hatheburg of Merseburg , a daughter of Count Erwin of Merseburg and heiress of large estates in Hassegau und Friesenfeld. Her brother-in-law, Count Thietmar of Merseburg was one of Henry's tutors. In 909 the couple separated and Hatheburg again took the veil, nevertheless, Henry retained her Eastphalian estates. He spent much time in this area; when he succeeded Conrad I as King of East Francia in 919, he had

220-400: The Memleben community in favour of Hersfeld Abbey, to whom he subordinated it, in return for estates for his pet project, the newly created Bishopric of Bamberg . The decline of Memleben Abbey, and its Ottonian memoria , was thus ensured. The Salian emperor Conrad II was the last documented German monarch who stayed at Memleben in 1033. The Memleben convent existed until in 1525 the abbey

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240-414: The Memleben estates were granted to the newly established Bishops of Zeitz . Crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 962, Otto apparently planned to celebrate the feast of Pentecost at Memleben in 973. The sixty-year-old may have felt his end drawing near when he arrived at his father's place of death. According to the Saxon chronicles by Widukind of Corvey and Thietmar of Merseburg , he died here on 7 May 973 and

260-581: The centre of a projected See of Thuringia, but died aged 22 in Italy before he was able to act on his intention. In 1015 the golden age of Memleben Abbey ended. On his accession in 1002, Henry II , the successor of Otto III, initially had confirmed to Abbot Reinhold of Memleben the privileges and possessions of his predecessors, on par with the Imperial abbeys of Fulda , Corvey and Reichenau . However, thirteen years later, he substantially disempowered and dispossessed

280-457: The family coat of arms of the Lords of Werthern, who held lordship initially through resale from 1453 and hereditarily from 1461 in the repeatedly divided Grafschaft Wiehe. The shield first appeared in the middle of the 16th century on a seal with the inscription: SIGILLVM CIVITATIS WIHE. On earlier seals, Bartholomew can be seen alone under a baldachin . This Kyffhäuserkreis location article

300-452: The nave. The former monastic buildings were given during the East German period after World War II to an agricultural collective, who made considerable alterations to them. They now house a museum with a permanent exhibition relating to the royal and monastic history of the abbey and the town, directly perceptible also in an extended monastery garden and a medieval scriptorium . Memleben is

320-453: The next year, to arrange the succession of his son Otto I , and afterwards retired to the castellum of Memleben, where he died after another stroke on 2 July 936. His mortal remains were transferred to the Quedlinburg abbey church. Otto I, like his father, often stayed in Memleben and issued a number of documents from here. However, no festive ceremonies or diets are documented and parts of

340-449: The surrounding area of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. Blazon: “In silver a haloed saint in a blue cloak, in his right hand a raised silver knife, holding a staff in his left hand; at his feet a black shield, inside a golden branch bend with three golden maple leaves." The coat of arms shows St. Bartholomew , the patron saint of the parish church in Wiehe, with his attributes. The shield shows

360-530: Was buried in Magdeburg Cathedral alongside his first wife Eadgyth . Legend has it, that although his body was buried in Magdeburg, his heart was buried in Memleben. Otto's son and successor, Emperor Otto II , also issued several documents from Memleben. In his father's memory, and perhaps as an intended site of dynastic memorial, his son and successor Otto II with his consort Theophanu founded about 979

380-591: Was plundered during the German Peasants' War and after a steadily worsening decline in the wake of the Protestant Reformation it was finally dissolved in 1548. The abbey's estates were taken over by the Electors of Saxony in 1551 and given to the school at Pforta , which had just been re-founded, and which retained possession of them until the end of World War II . Since the roof of the former abbey church

400-475: Was struck by lightning and destroyed in 1722, several attempts were made later to demolish the rest of the building. Nevertheless, the remaining ruins are still of interest, particularly the Late Romanesque crypt. Of the first monumental church building erected in the 10th century, some walls and foundations are preserved, particularly the southwestern transept and crossing piers, as well as the southern side of

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