Memleben

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Coordinates: 51°17′N, 11°34′E

Memleben
[[Image:image_map = state = Saxony-Anhalt|100px|Coat of arms of Memleben]]
Country	Germany
District	Burgenlandkreis
Population	715 (31st of December 2005)
Area	16,76 km² km²
Coordinates	51°17′ N 11°34′ E
Postal code	06601-06646
Area code	15256058
Licence plate code	BLK
Mayor	Helmut Reich
Website	http://www.blaues-band.de/unstrut/memleben.htm

Memleben is a small village in the southern Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, it is located at the river Unstrut. In the 10th century the Pfalz or villa regia of Memleben, a kind of seasonal king´s court, was one of the favourite places of the german king Henry the Fowler and his son Kaiser Otto I the Great. On behalf of Otto II., son of Otto I., a benedictine monastery was built there in 973 to honour the memory of his father. It became one of the most important monasteries in the German kingdom for a short time. Remains of the church and the cloister are still to be seen. Nowadays the village has roundabout 800 inhabitants.

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