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QUEDLINBURG ABBEY
Quedlinburg Abbey was a house of secular canonesses (Frauenstift) in Quedlinburg in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was founded in 936 on the initiative of Saint Mathilda, the widow of the East Frankish King Henry the Fowler, as his memorial. For many centuries it and its abbesses enjoyed great prestige and influence. Quedlinburg Abbey was an Imperial Estate and one of the approximately forty self-ruling Imperial Abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire. It was disestablished by the secular state in 1802/3. The church, known as Stiftskirche Saint Servatius, is now used by the Lutheran Evangelical Church in Germany.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quedlinburg_Abbey
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