Imperial Abbey of Irsee Reichsabtei Irsee | |||||||||
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| 1694–1802 | |||||||||
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 Irsee Abbey church | |||||||||
| Status | Imperial Abbey | ||||||||
| Capital | Irsee Abbey | ||||||||
| Government | Elective principality | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Founded by Henry, Margrave of Ronsberg | 1186 | ||||||||
• Refounded after near-collapse | 1373 1694 | ||||||||
• Looted in Peasants' War | 1525 | ||||||||
• Looted in Thirty Years' War | mid-17th century | ||||||||
• Granted Imperial immediacy | 1694 | ||||||||
• Mediæval buildings collapsed | 1699–1704 | ||||||||
• Secularised to Bavaria | 1802 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
Irsee Abbey, also the Imperial Abbey of Irsee (German: Reichsabtei Irsee), was a Benedictine abbey located at Irsee near Kaufbeuren in Bavaria. The self-ruling imperial abbey was secularized in the course of the German mediatization of 1802–1803 and its territory annexed to Bavaria. The buildings of the former abbey now house a conference and training centre for Bavarian Swabia.