Hochstift Augsburg

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Territory in the Holy Roman Empire
Hochstift Augsburg
coat of arms
Coat of arms of the Hochstift Augsburg


Alternative names Principality , bishopric , pen
Form of rule Electoral principality / corporate state
Ruler / government Prince-bishop , administrator or vacant : cathedral chapter
Today's region / s DE-BY
Parliament 1 virile vote on the ecclesiastical bench in the Reichsfürstenrat
Reichskreis Swabian
Capitals / residences Augsburg , Dillingen
Denomination / Religions Roman Catholic
Language / n German , Latin


Incorporated into Electorate of Bavaria
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Map of the Hochstift Augsburg in the Holy Roman Empire (1648)

The Hochstift Augsburg was the secular domain of the Prince-Bishop of Augsburg until secularization at the beginning of the 19th century .

history

The Augsburg bishopric was created in the 11th to 13th centuries from various acquisitions by the bishops of Augsburg and by 1450 already had a relatively closed territory. From the 13th century there were violent disputes between the increasingly independent imperial city of Augsburg and the prince-bishopric, so that in the 15th century the main residence of the prince-bishops was relocated to Dillingen an der Donau . Prince-Bishop Otto Truchseß von Waldburg founded the University of Dillingen in 1549 , placed it under the leadership of the Jesuits in 1563 and made it a center of the Counter-Reformation . The last prince-bishop of Augsburg and ruler of the bishopric, which was dissolved during the secularization in 1802/03, was Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony . The possession of the bishopric within the city of Augsburg initially came to the imperial city of Augsburg. Due to the Bratislava Peace of December 26, 1805, Augsburg, which had already been occupied by Bavarian troops on December 21 , lost its imperial freedom and also fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria .

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Expansion and administrative structure

The bishopric extended from the north ( nursing office Westendorf ) to the west (nursing office Zusmarshausen ) and the offices in the Augsburg Straßvogtei ( nursing offices Bobingen and Schwabmünchen ) to the Allgäu . At the time of secularization in 1802, it covered an area of ​​around 3,000 square kilometers and had a population of around 100,000 residents who were subordinate to the land or court. The residences of the Augsburg prince-bishops were Augsburg and Dillingen , where the main episcopal residence was. There were also summer and secondary residences in Oberdorf (today Marktoberdorf ), Füssen and Bad Hindelang .

See also

literature

  • Thaddäus Steiner (arr.): The land register of the Hochstift Augsburg from 1316 (publications of the Swabian Research Center Augsburg. Series 5a: land register 4). Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-95786-202-0 .
  • Wolfgang Wüst : The Principality of Augsburg. A spiritual state in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Sankt-Ulrich-Verlag, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3929246236 .
  • Wolfgang Wüst: Spiritual State and Old Reich. Early modern forms of rule, administration and court keeping in the Augsburg prince-bishopric (studies on the Bavarian constitutional and social history XIX / 1 and 2). Munich 2001, ISBN 376969709X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Wüst: Das Fürstbistum Augsburg, pp. 414–421.
  2. ↑ Thaddäus Steiner: The Urbar des Hochstift Augsburg , p. 5ff.
  3. ↑ Thaddäus Steiner: The Urbar des Hochstift Augsburg , p. 5.