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

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876: 52: 1034: 225: 66: 264: 306: 250: 437:, ("Ulrich's village"), south of Augsburg, and a few other more distant possessions. Inside Augsburg however, St. Ulrich and Afra's sovereign rule extended only over the grounds of the abbey church and monastery. At the time of the secularization of the abbey in 1802, it owned in and near Augsburg about a hundred houses as well as gardens, meadows and mills, and the Upper Lech bridge and toll house. 322: 314: 775: 367:
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,
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The Benedictine monastery was preceded by an original foundation established at an uncertain date, but at least as early as the 10th century (and in its turn quite possibly a refoundation of a still earlier one from the 5th or 6th centuries), by the "Kollegiatstift St. Afra", a community of the
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military hospital was installed here; after six monks, including the abbot, had died of infectious diseases, the remainder moved into a private house. The hospital was replaced in 1807 by a Bavarian cavalry barracks, known as the "Ulrichskaserne".
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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
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of Saint Afra were venerated, and next door to which the community premises were built. Between 1006 and 1012,
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Abbot Jakob Köplin (1548–1600) succeeded in having St. Ulrich and Afra's long standing claim to
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Katholische Stadtpfarrei St. Ulrich und Afra als „Priestermistbeet“ des Bistums Augsburg
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the Imperial Abbey covered 112 square kilometers and had about 5,000 subjects.
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Benedictine abbey dedicated to Saint Ulrich and Saint Afra in Augsburg, Bavaria
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Die Benediktinerklöster in Bayern (= Germania Benedictina, vol. 2)
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and gave the premises to Benedictine monks whom he brought from
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of Saint Afra and Saint Ulrich are preserved in the crypt.
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St. Ulrich's and St. Afra's Abbey (Augsburg)
Coat of arms of Saint Ulrich and Saint Afra Abbey Augsburg
The abbey of St. Ulrich and Afra in 1627
Middle Ages
immediacy
Bp Augsburg
Secularised
Augsburg
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Bavaria
mediatised
Bavaria

Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg
Augsburg

Electorate of Bavaria
Germany
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German
Benedictine
Saint Ulrich
Saint Afra
Augsburg
Bavaria
Holy Roman Empire
priests

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