Saint Emmeram's Abbey

Imperial Abbey of St. Emmeram
Reichsabtei Sankt Emmeram (German)
1295–1803
Coat of arms of Saint Emmeram's Abbey
Coat of arms
StatusImperial abbey
CapitalSt. Emmeram's Abbey
GovernmentTheocracy
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Abbey founded
c. 739
• Separated from
    bishopric

975 1295
• Gained Reichsfreiheit
1295
• Abbot raised to
    Reichsfürst

1731
• Mediatised to new
    Archbishopric¹
1803
• Ceded to Bavaria on
    Imperial collapse

January 6, 1806
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Electorate of the Palatinate
Principality of Regensburg
Today part ofGermany
1: The Bishopric, the Imperial City and all three Imperial Abbeys were mediatised simultaneously.
Small section of the extensive St. Emmeram's buildings
Main inner courtyard
Map of the site in 2014

Saint Emmeram's Abbey (German: Kloster Sankt Emmeram or Reichsabtei Sankt Emmeram) was a Benedictine monastery founded around 739 at Regensburg in Bavaria (modern-day southeastern Germany) at the grave of the itinerant Frankish bishop Saint Emmeram.[1] The original abbey church is now a parish church named St. Emmeram's Basilica. The other buildings on the site form a large complex known as Schloss Thurn und Taxis or Schloss St. Emmeram, which has served as the main residence of the Thurn und Taxis princely family since the early 19th century.

  1. ^ Sankt Emmeram is sometimes referred to as Sankt Emmeran