Huysburg
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.Huysburg Abbey was among the earliest monasteries to join the reform movement of the Bursfelde Congregation in 1444 and by the late 15th century the convent comprises 31 monks.Nevertheless, Huysburg was one of the very few Catholic monasteries of the region which survived the Reformation under the provisions of the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia – Abbot Adam Adami was actively involved in the negotiations.Huysburg again became an ecclesiastical site, when a branch seminary of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paderborn was set up here in 1952 for those parts of the diocese lying in East Germany.It was established as a filial by the monks of Tyniec Abbey in Kraków in cooperation with the Paderborn diocese and its Magdeburg administrator Johannes Braun.
AffiliationCatholicBenedictinesHalberstadtGeographic coordinatesGermanBenedictineSaxony-AnhaltRomanesquesecularisedcircular rampartFrankishSaxon WarsCharlemagneOtto IMagdeburgOtto IIIBishops of HalberstadtAnnalista SaxoBurchard II of HalberstadthermitageQuedlinburgGandersheimEkkehard of HuysburgHalberstadt CathedralReinhardBursfelde CongregationGerman Peasants' WarSchmalkaldic WarThirty Years' WarReformationTreaty of WestphaliaAdam AdamiPrincipality of HalberstadtFrederick William of BrandenburgPrussianProvince of SaxonyFrederick William IIIKarl Friedrich von dem KnesebeckWorld War IISovietseminaryCatholic Archdiocese of PaderbornEast GermanyreunificationTyniecKrakówJohannes BraunprioryDiocese of MagdeburgSt. Matthias' AbbeyBlessed Ekkehardpilgrimage