Wettenhausen Abbey [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Wettenhausen Abbey
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
school here, which today is a "Gymnasium" (secondary school) specialising in music and the sciences.
Abbey church.
The former abbey church of the Assumption is now a parish church. It was built in the 12th century and altered in the 17th in the Baroque style by Michael Thumb.
Bibliography.
- Wüst, Wolfgang, 1983. "Das Reichsstift Wettenhausen: Besitz, Herrschaftsorganisation und Landeshoheit", in: "Kloster Wettenhausen. Beiträge aus Geschichte und Gegenwart im Rückblick auf sein tausendjähriges Bestehen