Söflingen Abbey
Imperial Abbey of Söflingen Reichsabtei Söflingen | |||||||||
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| Status | Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Söflingen Abbey | ||||||||
| Government | Theocracy | ||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||
• Lands donated by Count Hartmann IV to found abbey | 13 January 1258 | ||||||||
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• Claimed Imp. immediacy | 1537 | ||||||||
• Gained seat at Imp. Diet | 1566 | ||||||||
• Acquired immediacy | 1773 | ||||||||
• Secularised to Bavaria | 1803 | ||||||||
• To Württemberg | 1810 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
Söflingen Abbey was a nunnery of the Order of Poor Ladies, also known as the Poor Clares, the Poor Clare Sisters, the Clarisse, the Minoresses, or the Second Order of St. Francis. It was situated in the village of Söflingen, now part of Ulm in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Being the oldest nunnery of this order in Germany, it was also its most important and most affluent.