Imperial Immediacy

[LouisFerdinand]

Burtscheid Abbey in Germany was founded in 997 under Emperor Otto III.
In 1018 the monastery was raised to the status of an abbey.
The dedication was changed from Saints Nicholas and Appolinaris to Saints John the Baptist and Nicholas.
Burtscheid Abbey was granted Imperial immediacy by the Holy Roman Emperor Conrad III in 1138.

[LouisFerdinand]

The Abbey of Kempten is located within the former Duchy of Swabia in Germany.
The status of Imperial immediacy was confirmed by King Henry IV of Germany in 1062.

[LouisFerdinand]

The Imperial Abbey of Corvey was a Benedictine abbey on the River Weser in Germany.
Imperial rights were granted by Holy Roman Emperor Otto I in 940.

[LouisFerdinand]

Gengenbach Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Gengenbach in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
It was an Imperial abbey from the Carolingian period to 1803. It was founded by St. Pirmin.

[LouisFerdinand]

Gengenbach Abbey was granted to the Prince Bishopric, Eberhard I by Holy Roman Emperor Henry II in 1007.

[LouisFerdinand]

Under Prior Heinrich Morstetter (1436-1461) the monastery of Marchtal in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany was raised to the status of an abbey in 1440.
In 1500 Marchtal Abbey was made an imperial abbey.

[LouisFerdinand]

Ellwangen Abbey was the earliest Benedictine monastery established in the Duchy of Swabia.
Emperor Louis the Pious placed the monastery under his royal protection in 814.
Ellwangen Abbey became an Imperial abbey with the privilege of Imperial immediacy granted in 1011 by King Henry II and was again confirmed by Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg in 1347.

[LouisFerdinand]

Quedlinburg Abbey was founded on the castle hill of Quedlinburg in the present Saxony-Anhalt in 936 by King Otto I at the request of his mother Queen Matilda in honor of her late husband, King Henry the Fowler, Otto's father, and as his memorial.
Quedlinburg Abbey was an Imperial Estate and became a self-ruling Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire.

[LouisFerdinand]

Gandersheim Abbey is in Lower Saxony, Germany. It was founded by Duke Luidolf of Saxony and his wife Oda. In 877 King Louis the Younger placed the abbey under the protection of the Empire, which gave it extensive independence. In 919 King Henry I granted it imperial immediacy.

[LouisFerdinand]

Comburg was a Benedictine monastery in Baden-Wurttemburg in Germany.
It was founded in the late 1070s by the Counts of Comburg-Rothenborg on the site of their castle.
In 1587 Comburg was mediatised by Wurttemburg, which brought to an end its status as an imperial abbey.