Lindau Abbey

Imperial Abbey of Lindau
Reichsstift Lindau
1466–1802
StatusImperial Abbey
CapitalLindau Abbey
GovernmentElective principality
Historical eraMiddle Ages
 Founded
ca 822
 Gained immediacy
1466
 Lindau accepted the
    Protestant Reformation

1528

1802
 Exchanged for territory
    in Bohemia and Hungary
    with Austria


1804 1802
 To Bavaria
1805
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Lindau
County of Bretzenheim
Today part ofGermany

Lindau Abbey (German: Reichsstift Lindau) was a house of secular canonesses in Lindau on the Bodensee in Bavaria, Germany, which stands on an island in the lake.