Imperial Charterhouse of Buxheim Reichskartause Buxheim | |||||||||
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1548–1802 | |||||||||
Status | Imperial Abbey | ||||||||
Capital | Buxheim Charterhouse | ||||||||
Government | Theocracy | ||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Charterhouse founded | 10th century | ||||||||
• Donated to Carthusians | 1402 1548 | ||||||||
1524–25 | |||||||||
1546–47 | |||||||||
1548 | |||||||||
• Secularised to Ostein | 1802 | ||||||||
1809 | |||||||||
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Today part of | Germany |
Buxheim Charterhouse (‹See Tfd›German: Reichskartause Buxheim) was formerly a monastery of the Carthusians (the largest charterhouse in Germany[1]) and is now a monastery of the Salesians. It is situated in Buxheim near Memmingen in Bavaria.