Abbey of Saints Ulrich and Afra
Imperial Abbey of Saints Ulrich and Afra, Augsburg Reichskloster Sankt Ulrich und Afra in Augsburg | |||||||||||
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| 1577a / 1643b – 1802 | |||||||||||
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The abbey of St. Ulrich and Afra in 1627 | |||||||||||
| Status | Imperial Abbey | ||||||||||
| Capital | St Ulrich's and St Afra's Abbey | ||||||||||
| Government | Elective principality | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||
• Founded | ca 10th century | ||||||||||
• Gained immediacy | 1577 | ||||||||||
1643/44 | |||||||||||
| 1802 | |||||||||||
• City mediatised to Bavaria | 1806 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||||
The Abbey of Saints Ulrich and Afra (German: Kloster Sankt Ulrich und Afra Augsburg) is a former Benedictine abbey in the south of the old city in Augsburg, Bavaria. It was dedicated to Saint Ulrich and Saint Afra.
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 Holy Roman Empire 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, the Imperial Abbey covered 112 square kilometers and had about 5,000 subjects.