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One also comes from which direction, the silhouette of the more than 1200 years old bishop town with their incomparable church buildings, impress one again and again. If one asks on account of city dwellers today what you are particularly proud on, you will mention the city hall presumably, the new town center and the old town rehabilitated.

Ältester freistehender Roland
Deutschlands aus dem Jahr 1433
(Foto: U.Schrader)

The new buildings fill the painful gap which the bomb raid has torn on Halberstadt on April 8th, 1945. A town with a history Halberstadt is a town with a long history, that proved not only the important sacred buildings like St. Mary´s Church, cathedral or the Martini Church. The archeological digs in the town center provided the unequivocal evidence for it that the southern area of the Martini Church was settled already in the 9th and 10th centuries. Completely be silent of the earliest mentions of the town from the year 804. Charlemagne had intended Halberstadt for the diocesan town there. Already 989 awarded to Otto III . the market, the on account of city dweller bishop Hildeward coins and right to levy tolls. The bishop assured merchants custom liberty of the on account of city dweller in the entire German empire 1068.

Romanische Liebfrauenkirche