Weingarten Abbey

Imperial Abbey of St Martin at Weingarten
Reichsabtei Weingarten
1274–1803
Coat of arms of Weingarten of Weingarten Abbey
Coat of arms of Weingarten
Weingarten Abbey, 1525
Weingarten Abbey, 1525
StatusImperial Abbey
CapitalWeingarten
GovernmentTheocracy
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Founded
1056 1274

1268
• Gained Reichsfreiheit
1274
• Joined Council of Princes
1793
• Secularised to
    Orange-Nassau
1803
• Annexed by Württemberg
1806
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchy of Bavaria
Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda
Today part ofGermany
Ideal plan of Weingarten Abbey, 1723
Weingarten, showing the abbey buildings on the Martinsberg, 1917

Weingarten Abbey or St. Martin's Abbey (German: Reichsabtei Weingarten until 1803, then merely Abtei Weingarten) is a Benedictine monastery on the Martinsberg (St. Martin's Mount) in Weingarten near Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg (Germany).