Buxheim Charterhouse

Imperial Charterhouse of Buxheim
Reichskartause Buxheim
1548–1802
Coat of arms
StatusImperial Abbey
CapitalBuxheim Charterhouse
GovernmentTheocracy
Historical eraMiddle Ages
 Charterhouse founded
10th century
 Donated to Carthusians
1402 1548
 Looted and abandoned
    during German
    Peasants' War


1524–25
 Occupied by Memmingen
    during Schmalkaldic War

1546–47
 Granted immediacy from
    Charles V at Augsburg

1548
 Secularised to Ostein
1802
 Ostein inherited by
    Bassenheim

1809
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Memmingen
County of Ostein
Today part ofGermany

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.