Groß Ammensleben - Kloster

The first documented mention of the village dates back to 965. It was owned by the family of the Counts of Hillersleben-Ammensleben, who founded a monastery here in 1110.

The monastery was handed over to Archbishop Norbert of Xanten in 1127 and thus to the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, with the bailiwick rights remaining with the founding family. Norbert of Xanten transferred the church and monastery to the Benedictine Order in 1129. In 1140 it was elevated to the rank of an abbey.

In the 15th century the monks joined the Bursfeld reform movement.
After the Lutheran Reformation, the monastery remained in the Catholic faith after a short hesitation, but also had to provide pastoral care for the Protestant community. At the insistence of the Protestant sovereign and later Elector Joachim Friedrich of Brandenburg, the monastery had to employ a Protestant preacher from 1584 and also make the nave available for Protestant services.

After the secularization in 1804, the monastery church became a parish church and the monastery with the farmyard became part of the Royal Prussian Domain Office. After WWII, the domain and the church were transferred to "public ownership".