Buxheim Charterhouse
Imperial Charterhouse of Buxheim Reichskartause Buxheim | |||||||||
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| 1548–1802 | |||||||||
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| Status | Imperial Abbey | ||||||||
| Capital | Buxheim Charterhouse | ||||||||
| Government | Theocracy | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Charterhouse founded | 10th century | ||||||||
• Donated to Carthusians | 1402 1548 | ||||||||
1524–25 | |||||||||
1546–47 | |||||||||
1548 | |||||||||
• Secularised to Ostein | 1802 | ||||||||
1809 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
Buxheim Charterhouse (German: Reichskartause Buxheim) was formerly a monastery of the Carthusians (the largest charterhouse in Germany) and is now a monastery of the Salesians. It is situated in Buxheim near Memmingen in Bavaria.