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Imperial Abbey of Reichenau Reichskloster Reichenau | |||||||||
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| 724–1540 or 1548 | |||||||||
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| Status | Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Reichenau Abbey | ||||||||
| Government | Theocracy | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Founded | 724 | ||||||||
• Gained Reichsfreiheit | Unknown 724 | ||||||||
1540 or 1548 1540s | |||||||||
1757–1803 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
| UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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| Part of | Monastic Island of Reichenau |
| Criteria | Cultural: iii, iv, vi |
| Reference | 974 |
| Inscription | 2000 (24th Session) |
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Reichenau Abbey was a Benedictine monastery on Reichenau Island (known in Latin as Augia Dives). It was founded in 724 by the itinerant Saint Pirmin,[1] who is said to have fled Visigothic Spain ahead of the Moorish invaders, with patronage that included Charles Martel, and, more locally, Count Berthold of the Ahalolfinger and the Alemannian Duke Santfrid I (Nebi). Pirmin's conflict with Santfrid resulted in his leaving Reichenau in 727.[2]
- ^ Rosamond McKitterick, The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians, (Pearson Education Limited, 1983), 42.
- ^ Pierre Riche, The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe, transl. Michael Idomir Allen, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), 42.