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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of east-central Germany southwest of Magdeburg. It was a seat of Holy Roman Emperors and a center of ecclesiastical learning beginning in the 10th century.
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Examples
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The Star of Quedlinburg is such a pretty, quaint change rung upon this pleasant theme of Phloxes.
An Island Garden 1894
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The couple married at Quedlinburg in Saxony, and soon celebrated the births of a son and daughter.
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Visiting the abbey church in the Harz mountain town of Quedlinburg, he notes that it was deconsecrated in the 1930s by Heinrich Himmler and turned into a shrine to the SS.
Teutonic Temptations Ian Brunskill 2010
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Visiting the abbey church in the Harz mountain town of Quedlinburg, he notes that it was deconsecrated in the 1930s by Heinrich Himmler and turned into a shrine to the SS.
Teutonic Temptations Ian Brunskill 2010
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Visiting the abbey church in the Harz mountain town of Quedlinburg, he notes that it was deconsecrated in the 1930s by Heinrich Himmler and turned into a shrine to the SS.
Teutonic Temptations Ian Brunskill 2010
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When she had finished the buildings, Quedlinburg became her usual retreat.
Archive 2008-03-09 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Her body remains at Quedlinburg, where she is buried beside her husband.
Archive 2008-03-09 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Her body remains at Quedlinburg, where she is buried beside her husband.
St. Matilda of Saxony, Empress, ancestor of Capetian Dynasty de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The Quedlinburg Itala fragment was found in the binding of some books from the town of Quedlinburg.
Archive 2008-01-01 Dafydd 2008
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After Henry's death in 955, she devoted herself to building many churches and four religious houses, including Engern, Pöhlde in Brunswick (where she maintained 3,000 monks), Quedlinburg in Saxony (where she buried her husband), and Nordhausen, where she retired in her later years.
Archive 2008-03-09 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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