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Memleben Abbey ((ドイツ語:Kloster Memleben, Reichskloster Memleben)) was a Benedictine monastery, now ruined, on the Unstrut in Memleben, in the Burgenlandkreis near Nebra in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ==History== The royal villa of Memleben acquired considerable importance under the Ottonian Dynasty. Henry I of Germany (whose ancestral estates lay in this area, where he therefore spent much time) was born in Memleben and later greatly enlarged the ''Kaiserpfalz'' (''villa regia'' or palace), which became his favourite residence next only to Quedlinburg. He died here of a stroke while hunting in 936. His son Otto I also often stayed in Memleben and issued a number of documents from here. Otto I died here on 7 May 973 and although his body was buried in Magdeburg, his heart, according to legend, was buried in Memleben. In his memory, and perhaps as an intended site of dynastic memorial,〔John W. Bernhardt, in Gerd Althoff, Johannes Fried, Patrick J. Geary, eds. ''Medieval Concepts of the Past: ritual, memory, historiography'', 2002:59f.〕 his son Otto II founded in 975 a Benedictine monastery, which within a short time had become one of the richest and most influential of the Imperial abbeys. Otto II endowed it with several estates and privileges in the present Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Hesse. In 994 Otto II's son, Otto III, granted the abbey the market, mint and customs rights of Memleben, and even had plans to make it 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, had confirmed to Abbot Reinhold of Memleben the privileges and possessions of his predecessors, but nevertheless thirteen years later he substantially disempowered and dispossessed the community at Memleben 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. In 1525 the abbey was plundered by rebellious peasants and after a steadily worsening decline in the wake of the Reformation it was dissolved in 1548. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Memleben Abbey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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