Reichsstift

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The Holy Roman Empire at the end of the Thirty Years War 1648. The areas under spiritual rule are colored purple.

As Reichsstift one called the Holy Roman Empire , a rich immediate area with spiritual authority ( spiritual territories ).

As a generic term, “Reichsstift” includes the arches and priests (territories of prince-bishops ) with their own virile voice . To the territories of the Prince deaneries and Prince abbeys and only as part of a Kuriatstimme in the Imperial Council represented Reichsprälaturen , the Imperial abbeys and -propsteien.

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Princes and private abbeys in the Holy Roman Empire (colored print from Siebmacher's coat of arms book of 1605)

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