Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg
The Bishopric of Augsburg was until the secularization in the early 19th century, the secular dominion of the Prince-Bishop of Augsburg.
History
The Bishopric of Augsburg began in the 11th to 13th centuries from various acquisitions made by the bishops of Augsburg and had already in 1450 a relatively closed territory. Violent clashes were in the 13th century between the increasingly more independent imperial city of Augsburg and the Archbishopric, so that it came to the laying of the main residence of the prince bishops to Dillingen on the Danube in the 15th century. Prince-Bishop Otto Steward of Waldburg founded in 1549, the University of Dillingen, she assumed the leadership of the Jesuits in 1563 and made it a center of the Counter-Reformation. The last Prince Bishop of Augsburg and ruler of the resolution at the secularization of 1802/1803 the Bishopric was Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony. The possession of high pin within the city of Augsburg came first to the imperial city of Augsburg. By the Peace of Pressburg on December 26, 1805 lost Augsburg, which was already occupied on 21 December of Bavarian troops, the kingdom of freedom and also fell to Bavaria.
Expansion and administrative divisions
The high pin extended from the north ( Pflegamt Westendorf ) on the west ( Pflegamt Zusmarshausen ) and the offices of the Augsburg road Bailiwick ( Pflegämter Bobingen and Schwabmunchen ) up in the Allgäu region. It included the time of secularization in 1802 an area of about 3000 square kilometers and had a population of approximately 100,000 basic or gerichtsuntertänigen inhabitants from. The residences of the Prince Bishops of Augsburg were Augsburg and Dillingen, where the bishop was the main residence. Summer or secondary residences were also in Oberndorf (now market Oberndorf ), feet and Bad Hindelang.
- Rentamt Augsburg: Basic rule and jurisdiction in the episcopal palace (before 1316), and Pfersee (1710 ), there Kondominat with St. Jakob benefice Augsburg.
- Pflegamt Aislingen: Aislingen ( 1498), Grundremmingen (1492 ), local government shared with Damenstift Edelstetten, Glöttweng ( 1684), Konzenberg ( 1684), vineyards ad Kötz (1791 ), cluster in possession Schnuttenbach
- Vogt Office Bobingen ( 1492): Basic rule and shared rule village in Bobingen ( 1452 ), Kameralgut Strassberg ( 1772), Wehringen (1675 )
- Pflegamt Buchloe ( 1581): Buchloe, city government, at the same time Pflegamt Helmi Mayrhofen. Sovereignty claims in the road bailiwick, ( Bronnen, Emmenhausen, Gutenberg, Kleinkitzighofen, Lamerdingen, Oberostendorf, Stöttwang, Thalhofen ). Office Sprengel: Buchloe ( 1363), Dillishausen with ash Lohmühle ( 1618), Gennachhausen ( 1772), Gerbishofen (1600), Eldratshofen, Großkitzighofen ( 1785), Helmi Mayrhofen with rule Altenberg ( 1473 ), Aufkirch, Blonhofen, Gerbishofen, Frankenried, Honsolgen with Hausen (, 1785), Jengen (1454 ), rule Koneberg ( 1673 ), Lindenberg ( 1618), Menhofen (1594 ), Schöttenau
- Office Sprengel: city of Dillingen (before 1316 ), North Rheinfelden ( 1396 )
- Office Sprengel: Dillingen (before 1316 ), Danube Altheim ( 1627 ), Eppisburg (1602 ), Fristingen ( 1440), Gremheim ( 1361-1783 ), Mörslingen, woman pin Reistingen (before 1316 ), Ried Send, Schretzheim ( 1344), Provost Steinheim, Weis Ingen (1454 ), Wittislingen ( 1373 )