Helmarshausen Abbey
Helmarshausen Abbey (German: Kloster Helmarshausen) was a Benedictine monastery situated in the small town of Helmarshausen, now part of Bad Karlshafen in Hesse, Germany.
Imperial Abbey of Helmarshausen Reichskloster Helmarshausen | |||||||||
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| 997–1538 | |||||||||
| Status | Imperial Abbey | ||||||||
| Capital | Helmarshausen Abbey | ||||||||
| Common languages | West Low German | ||||||||
| Government | Theocracy | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
| 997 | |||||||||
• Consecrated by Meinwerk | 1011 | ||||||||
• Independence disputed with Bp Paderborn | 1160–91 | ||||||||
1176–88 | |||||||||
• Protectorate of Hesse | from 1479 | ||||||||
• Dissolved to Hesse during the Reformation | 1538 | ||||||||
• Paderborn renounced rights | 1597 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
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