Kaisheim is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the district of Donau-Ries in

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It was the location of

Kaisheim Abbey The Imperial Abbey of Kaisersheim (German:''Reichsstift Kaisersheim'' or ''Kloster Kaisersheim''), was a Cistercian monastery in Kaisersheim (now Kaisheim), Bavaria, Germany. As one of the 40-odd self-ruling imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Emp ...

History

Kaisheim was the local High Reeve's office and belonged to

, an Imperial Abbey,. The Abbey was founded in 1133 by Graf Heinrich III von Lechsgemünd and his wife Liutgard. The abbey was likely given Imperial Abbey status before 1370, however it was not until 1656 that the

Imperial immediacy Imperial immediacy (german: Reichsfreiheit or ') was a privileged constitutional and political status rooted in German feudal law under which the Imperial estates of the Holy Roman Empire such as Imperial cities, prince-bishoprics and secular pri ...

was recognized Since the

German Mediatisation German mediatisation (; german: deutsche Mediatisierung) was the major territorial restructuring that took place between 1802 and 1814 in Germany and the surrounding region by means of the mass mediatisation and secularisation of a large number ...

of 1803, Kaisheim has belonged to

and from the Bavarian reform edict of 1818 the present day community arose. Kaisheim was given

market Market is a term used to describe concepts such as: * Market (economics), system in which parties engage in transactions according to supply and demand * Market economy *Marketplace, a physical marketplace or public market Geography *Märket, a ...

rights and is sometimes referred to as Markt Kaisheim. The Latin title given to the town was "Caesarea" from "Kaisersheim". File:Kaisheim Chor.jpg, Kaisheim Abbey File:Kaisheim Kirche 2.jpg, Kaisheim Abbey File:Kaisheim Kirche 3.jpg, Kaisheim Abbey File:Kaisheim Kirche 4.jpg, Kaisheim Abbey File:Kaisheim Stiftergrab.jpg, Kaisheim's Founder's Grave File:D-DON-Landscape.JPG

References

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