St. Ulrich's and St. Afra's Abbey

Imperial Abbey of Saints Ulrich and Afra, Augsburg Reichskloster Sankt Ulrich und Afra in Augsburg
1577a / 1643b – 1802
Coat of arms
The abbey of St. Ulrich and Afra in 1627
Status	Imperial Abbey
Capital	St Ulrich's and St Afra's Abbey
Government	Elective principality
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Founded	ca 10th century
• Gained immediacy	1577
• Immediacy accepted     by Bp Augsburg	1643/44
• Secularised to Augsburg     (Imp. City) and Bavaria	1802
• City mediatised to Bavaria	1806
Preceded by Succeeded by Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg Augsburg Electorate of Bavaria
Today part of	Germany
a: De jure b: De facto

St. Ulrich's and St. Afra's Abbey, Augsburg (German: Kloster Sankt Ulrich und Afra Augsburg) is a former Benedictine abbey dedicated to Saint Ulrich and Saint Afra in the south of the old city in Augsburg, Bavaria.

From the late 16th century onward, the Abbey of St. Ulrich and St Afra was one of the 40-odd self-ruling imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire and, as such, was a virtually independent state. The territory of that state was very fragmented: the abbey of St. Ulrich and St Afra proper enclaved within the Free Imperial City of Augsburg, and several small territories disseminated throughout the region. At the time of its dissolution in 1802, the Imperial Abbey covered 112 square kilometers and had about 5,000 subjects.^[1]