Elchingen Abbey

Elchingen Abbey () was a Benedictine monastery in Oberelchingen (in Elchingen) in Bavaria, Germany, in the diocese of Augsburg. 
== History ==
Dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Saints Peter and Paul, the monastery was founded by the Counts of Dillingen. The abbey was reichsunmittelbar (independent of territorial sovereignty and answering directly to the Holy Roman Emperor, and thus a territorial principality in its own right). The abbot sat in the Reichstag of the Holy Roman Empire.
The abbey was dissolved in 1802 during secularisation. By 1840 the buildings had been almost entirely demolished.
In 1921 the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate settled on the site.
== References ==
* Brenner, Bernhard, 2003. Das ehemalige Reichsstift Elchingen/Oberelchingen. In: Klosterland Bayerisch Schwaben Werner Schiedermair (ed.), pp216–219. Lindenberg Fink. ISBN 3-89870-127-1.
* Dirr, Albert, 1926. Die Reichsabtei Elchingen von der Mitte des 15. bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Augsburg (also dissertation, University of Munich 1925)
* Konrad, Anton H., 1965. Die Reichsabtei Elchingen. Ihr Bild im Wandel der Jahrhunderte. Weissenhorn: Konrad.
* Kramer, Ferdinand Kramer, 1991. "Wissenschaft und Streben nach 'Wahrer Aufklärung'. Ein Beitrag zur Aufklärung im ostschwäbischen Benediktinerkloster Elchingen", in: Zeitschrift für bayerische Landesgeschichte, 54 / 1991, 1:269-286 ()
== External links ==
* Records of Elchingen Abbey
* Klöster in Bayern
Category:1802 disestablishments
Category:States and territories established in 1128
Category:Benedictine monasteries in Germany
Category:Monasteries in Bavaria
Category:Imperial abbeys
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