Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt
Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt Hochstift Eichstätt | |||||||||
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| 1305–1802 | |||||||||
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Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt, J.B. Homann, c.1717 | |||||||||
| Status | Prince-Bishopric | ||||||||
| Capital | Eichstätt | ||||||||
| Common languages | Central Bavarian | ||||||||
| Government | Ecclesiastical principality | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Diocese established | 741 | ||||||||
• Prince-Bishopric | 1305 | ||||||||
| 1500 | |||||||||
| 1617 | |||||||||
• Mediatised to Salzburg | 1802 | ||||||||
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The Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt (German: Hochstift Eichstätt, Fürtsbistum Eichstätt, Bistum Eichstätt) was a small ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire. Centered on the town of Eichstätt, it was located in the present-day state of Bavaria, somewhat to the west of Regensburg, to the north of Neuburg an der Donau and Ingolstadt, to the south of Nuremberg, and to the southeast of Ansbach.