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Princely Abbey of Kempten Fürststift Kempten | |||||||||
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| 1062–1803 | |||||||||
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 Imperial City and Princely Abbey of Kempten, c. 1800 | |||||||||
| Status | Princely Abbey | ||||||||
| Capital | Kempten (not included) | ||||||||
| Government | Elective ecclesiastical principality | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Abbey founded | 752 | ||||||||
• Imperial immediacy confirmed | 1062 | ||||||||
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• Joined Swabian Circle | 1500 | ||||||||
• Joined Catholic League | 1609 | ||||||||
• Abbey property purchased by the City of Kempten | 1525 | ||||||||
• Mediatised to Bavaria | 1803 | ||||||||
• Cities united | 1819 | ||||||||
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The Princely Abbey of Kempten (German: Fürststift Kempten or Fürstabtei Kempten) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire for centuries until it was annexed to the Electorate of Bavaria in the course of the German mediatization in 1803.