Today we went on a family trip to Wallhausen Palace, a Renaissance palace in the southern Harz region. It was probably the place where Otto the Great was born in 912. His parents Henry I. and Mathilda of Ringelheim where married there. Several diplomas were signed in Wallhausen, which was an important Pfalz near the Kyffhäuser during the Ottonian time.
The palace was rebuilt several times, from the Renaissance period onwards to the Second World War it belonged to the Counts of Asseburg. Since 1945 till 2004 it was a school and since 2005 it is in private hands again, renovated and turned into a hotel and cultural center for modern art by Swiss owner.
It'll be a long way until it will be restored to its Renaissance beauty, but it is already very beautiful! Together with students from the University of Magdeburg an exhibition on Otto the Great and his time is open to the public this year; in correspondence with the exhibition in Magdeburg and several other Ottonian places in Saxony Anhalt.
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