in the hands of the protestant reformers. In 1529 he had the Hospital of St. Cyriacus south of the church demolished and from 1531, with building material from, among other places, the Neuwerk monastery, and built extensively on the land sloping down to the river Saale. Although the desired clerical university failed to move in, the Cardinal continued building. He used the two-storey building as town house, whose decoration is said by the chroniclers to have been unrivalled in its splendour within the Mitteldeutschland region. The architect responsible for the whole was Andreas Günther, Master of Works of the Archbishoprics of Magdeburg and Mainz. Little is left, apart from a few details to bear witness to the 16th - 18th century residence, although Albrecht's code of arms over the entrance doorway still commemorate the man who built so much in Halle during the Renaissance period. Albeit modified several times the Cardinal's chapel, dedicated to All Saints and built in 1537 -38 on the north-east side between the Neue Residenz and the Dom is still well preserved. After radical conversion in the 19th century the Neue Residenz is today, among other things, home to the Geiseltal paleontological museum.