Obermünster, Regensburg
| Imperial Abbey of Obermünster | ||||||||||
| Reichsstift Obermünster | ||||||||||
| Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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| Capital | Obermünster | |||||||||
| Government | Principality | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Founded | early 9th century | ||||||||
| • | Destroyed by fire | 1002 | ||||||||
| • | Refounded, with Reichsfreiheit |
before 1024 |
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| • | Gained Papal protection |
1219 |
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| • | Raised to Imperial principality |
1315 |
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| • | Secularised to Bavaria | 1810 | ||||||||
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The Obermünster, or Obermünster Abbey, Regensburg, was a collegiate house of canonesses (Frauenstift) in Regensburg, Bavaria, second only to Niedermünster in wealth and power.
The Obermünster ("higher monastery", named in relation to the older Niedermünster, or "lower monastery"), dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, was founded in the early 9th century by the ruling house of the Carolingians as a Benedictine nunnery to complement the adjacent St. Emmeram's Abbey. It passed almost immediately into the possession of the bishops of Regensburg, at that date also abbots of St. Emmeram's, but King Louis the German recovered it by exchanging Mondsee Abbey for it in 833. His widow, Hemma, became abbess of Obermünster, although she was buried in St. Emmeram's. In the early 10th century it was a private monastery of the family of the Dukes of Bavaria. The nunnery and its church were destroyed by fire in 1002, and was rebuilt and revitalised by Emperor Henry II, who is traditionally considered its founder, and who made it an Imperial abbey — judicially independent, but in this case without territorial sovereignty.
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