[2] He left for Paderborn, where he enjoyed the home and instructions of Hartmann, and soon surpassed his companions and assisted in the management of the cathedral school.

Vicelinus was called to Bremen to act as teacher and principal of the school,[3] and was offered a canonry by Archbishop Frederick of the Archbishopric of Hamburg-Bremen.

[2] Hamburg-Bremen's Archbishop Adalbero sent him among the Polabian Slavs, and in the fall of 1126 Henry, Prince of the Obotrites, gave him a church in Liubice, near the site of the later Lübeck.

[1] Vicelinus's preaching gathered crowds of eager listeners, and many priests aided him in founding the new monastery (Latin: novum monasterium) in 1127, which became eponymous for Wippenthorp as Neumünster.

In Harsefeld Hamburg-Bremen's Archbishop Hartwig I made him Bishop of Starigard (or Aldinborg by the Saxons, today's Oldenburg) in 1149.