19 Facts About Naumburg

Naumburg is a town in the district Burgenlandkreis, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Central Germany.

The Naumburg Cathedral became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018.

The successful foundation not long beforehand of a Propstei Church on the site of the later Naumburg Cathedral was mentioned in the Merseburg Bishops' Chronicles in 1021.

Naumburg was a significant trading centre on the Via Regia in the Middle Ages, especially because of the Naumburg Trade Fairs, first known to have taken place in 1278.

In 1561, the Naumburg Diet recognized the unaltered Augsburg Confession and is recognized as part of the pre-history of the Book of Concord.

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The Naumburg district reverted to the Dukes of Saxony in Dresden and became fully integrated into Albertine Saxony.

Under the German Democratic Republic Naumburg was a centre of mechanical engineering, pharmaceuticals, metal-working and footwear manufacture.

Naumburg has a mild climate with warm summers and cool winters that is relatively dry for German standards.

Naumburg Cathedral was one of the large double-choir cathedrals built in the transitional style between Late Romanesque and Early Gothic.

Late Romanesque structure of the Naumburg Cathedral replaced a first, Early Romanesque cathedral, which had been consecrated around 1042.

Workshop organization of sculptors and stonemasons, the Naumburg Master innovated architecture and sculpture of the Hohenstaufen period of the 13th century that were particularly developed at the cathedral in Reims.

Naumburg Master achieved a high degree of dramatic expressiveness and natural vibrancy.

Early development of the town of Naumburg is closely connected with the Ekkehardine dynasty, Emperor Conrad II and Bishop Hildeward of Zeitz, who transferred the family seat from Kleinjena to their own estate at the new castle in Naumburg around 1028.

In 1030, Naumburg appears in the sources with the addition ?civitas?.

Oldest residential tower of Naumburg was built probably in the mid-12th century at the cathedral precincts, at the curia episcopalis, Domplatz 1.

Naumburg is in a wine-growing region, with numerous vineyards in the surrounding area.

SC Naumburg was a former football club in the city from September 1899 to 1908.

Naumburg is located on the central German route of the St James pilgrims way to Santiago de Compostela, the so-called Camino de Santiago.

Between 1948 and 1993 Naumburg possessed an ecclesiastical university with the name Katechistisches Oberseminar, where theology, philosophy, religious education and for a while religious law was taught.