Huysburg

Huysburg is a Benedictine monastery at the Huy, a wooded ridge north of the Harz and 9 kilometers northwest of Halberstadt in the Harz district of Saxony Anhalt. Politically assigned to the municipality Huy, the Benedictine monastery Huysburg belongs ecclesiastically to the diocese of Magdeburg. Patrons are Maria and from 1972 Maria recording of Mary in heaven. The Huysburg is the first station of the Way of St. James inside the Harz vicinity and is positioned at the south direction of the Romanesque Road.

After the subjugation of the Saxons by Charlemagne, the Franks constructed around 790 on the Huy a army station. It served to at ease the region against the Slavs. The stays of a ring walls are nonetheless recognizable inside the woodland. Ceramic unearths imply a agreement already within the Bronze Age. After the expansion of Magdeburg by means of Emperor Otto the Great, the Huysburg misplaced strategic significance. On April 20, 977, Emperor Otto II granted Bishop Arnulf von Halberstadt sovereignty over the forests Hakel, Huy, Fallstein, Asse, Elm and North Face.