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Coordinates: 51°17′00″N 11°34′00″E / 51.283333, 11.566667
Memleben is a municipality in Burgenlandkreis district in southern Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, located on 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 Otto I the Great.
On behalf of Otto II, son of Otto I, a Benedictine monastery, Memleben Abbey, 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 monastery are still to be seen.
Nowadays the village has about 800 inhabitants.
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