Wettenhausen Abbey
Imperial Abbey of Wettenhausen Reichsabtei Wettenhausen | |||||||||
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| ? – 1803 | |||||||||
| Status | Imperial Abbey | ||||||||
| Capital | Kammeltal | ||||||||
| Common languages | Alemannic German | ||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||||||
| Government | Elective monarchy | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Founded | 1130 | ||||||||
• Gained Reichsfreiheit | Uncertain | ||||||||
• Joined Council of Princes | 1793 | ||||||||
| 1803 | |||||||||
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Wettenhausen Abbey (German: Kloster Wettenhausen, Reichsabtei Wettenhausen) was an Imperial Abbey of Augustinian Canons until its secularization in 1802–1803. Being one of the 40-odd self-ruling Imperial Abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire, Wettenhaussen Abbey was a virtually independent state. Its abbot had seat and voice in the Imperial Diet, where he sat on the Bench of the Prelates of Swabia. At the time of secularization, the Abbey's territory covered 56 square kilometers and it had about 5,400 subjects.
It is now a Dominican convent. The abbey is in Wettenhausen in the municipality of Kammeltal in Bavaria.