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Ottobeuren Abbey
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Ottobeuren is a Benedictine abbey, located in Ottobeuren, near Memmingen in the Bavarian Allgäu, Germany.
Quick Facts Imperial Abbey of OttobeurenReichsabtei Ottobeuren, Status ...
Imperial Abbey of Ottobeuren Reichsabtei Ottobeuren | |||||||||||||
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1299–1624 1710–1803 | |||||||||||||
![]() The façade of the basilica, designed by Johann Michael Fischer, has been hailed as a pinnacle of Bavarian Baroque architecture | |||||||||||||
Status | Imperial Abbey | ||||||||||||
Capital | Ottobeuren Abbey | ||||||||||||
Government | Principality | ||||||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||
• Founded | 764 | ||||||||||||
1299 | |||||||||||||
1624 | |||||||||||||
• Regained immediacy | 1710 | ||||||||||||
1803 | |||||||||||||
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For part of its history Ottobeuren Abbey was one of the approximately 40 self-ruling imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire and, as such, was a virtually independent state. At the time of its dissolution in 1802, the imperial abbey covered 266 square kilometers and had about 10,000 subjects.