Naumburg

Naumburg is a metropolis inside the district Burgenlandkreis, within the nation of Saxony Anhalt, Central Germany. It has a populace of round 33,000. With the Naumburg Cathedral Naumburg has become a UNESCO World Heritage web page in 2018. This UNESCO designation acknowledges the approaches that shaped the European continent throughout the High Middle Ages among a thousand and 1300: Christianization, the so referred to as Landesausbau and the dynamics of cultural exchange and switch function for this very duration.

The first written record of Naumburg dates from 1012, whilst it changed into cited as the brand new castle of the Ekkehardinger, the Margrave of Meissen. It was based on the crossing of two change routes, Via Regia and the Regensburg Road. The a success foundation now not long beforehand of a Propstei Church on the web site of the later Naumburg Cathedral turned into noted inside the Merseburg Bishops' Chronicles in 1021. In 1028 Pope John XIX gave his approval for the transfer of the bishopric from Zeitz to Naumburg. Until 1568, during the Reformation, Naumburg turned into the seat of the bishops. The closing Catholic bishop becomes Julius von Pflug. The foundation of the cathedral college is dated to 1030. Naumburg has been called a metropolis in view that 1144.