Ottobeuren Abbey

Imperial Abbey of Ottobeuren Reichsabtei Ottobeuren
1299–1624 1710–1803
Coat of arms
The façade of the basilica, designed by Johann Michael Fischer, has been hailed as a pinnacle of Bavarian Baroque architecture
Status	Imperial Abbey
Capital	Ottobeuren Abbey
Government	Principality
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Founded	764
• Imperial immediacy	1299
• Lost Reichsfreiheit as     Vogtei of Augsburg	1624
• Regained immediacy	1710
• Secularised to Bavaria	1803
Preceded by Succeeded by Duchy of Swabia Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg Kingdom of Bavaria

Ottobeuren is a Benedictine abbey, located in Ottobeuren, near Memmingen in the Bavarian Allgäu, Germany.

For part of its history Ottobeuren Abbey was one of the approximately 40 self-ruling imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire and, as such, was a virtually independent state. At the time of its dissolution in 1802, the imperial abbey covered 266 square kilometers and had about 10,000 subjects.