In the Holy Roman Empire, the German term Hochstift (plural: Hochstifte) referred to the territory ruled by a bishop as a prince (i.e. prince-bishop)...
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intensified between burghers and bishops. The principality or prince-bishopric (Hochstift) ruled politically by a prince-bishop could wholly or largely have overlapped...
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Prince-Bishopric of Trent (redirect from Hochstift Trient)
Prince-Bishopric of Trent (Latin: Episcopatus ac Principatus Tridentinus; German: Hochstift Trient, Fürstbistum Trient, Bistum Trient) was an ecclesiastical principality...
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Prince-Bishopric of Regensburg (redirect from Hochstift Regensburg)
The Prince-Bishopric of Regensburg (German: Fürstbistum Regensburg; Hochstift Regensburg) was a small ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire...
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Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück (redirect from Hochstift Osnabrück)
The Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück (German: Hochstift Osnabrück; Fürstbistum Osnabrück, Bistum Osnabrück) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy...
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Goethe House (category Freies Deutsches Hochstift)
operated as a museum since its 1863 purchase by the Freies Deutsches Hochstift (Free German Foundation), displaying period furniture and paintings from...
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Prince-Bishopric of Worms (redirect from Hochstift Worms)
The Prince-Bishopric of Worms was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire. Located on both banks of the Rhine around Worms just north of...
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Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg (redirect from Hochstift Augsburg)
The Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg (German: Fürstbistum Augsburg; Hochstift Augsburg) was one of the prince-bishoprics of the Holy Roman Empire, and belonged...
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Otto Heuer (category Directors of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift)
literary historian. He served as the director of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift literary association from 1888 until his retirement in 1925. Heuer was...
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Prince-Bishopric of Warmia (redirect from Hochstift Ermland)
The Prince-Bishopric of Warmia (Polish: Biskupie Księstwo Warmińskie; German: Fürstbistum Ermland) was a semi-independent ecclesiastical state, ruled by...
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Bishop of Dresden-Meissen (redirect from Hochstift Meißen)
The Bishop of Dresden-Meissen is the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dresden-Meissen in the Archdiocese of Berlin. The diocese covers an area...
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The Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg (German: Hochstift Bamberg) was an ecclesiastical State of the Holy Roman Empire. It goes back to the Roman Catholic Diocese...
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such exercised political authority over a principality, their so-called Hochstift, which was distinct, and usually considerably smaller than their diocese...
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(Reichsabtei) (Imperial abbacy, a monastery enjoying Imperial immediacy) Hochstift: the territory ruled by a bishop as a prince. Imperial Abbey (Reichsabtei):...
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Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim (redirect from Hochstift Hildesheim)
The Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim (German: Hochstift Hildesheim, Fürstbistum Hildesheim, Bistum Hildesheim) was an ecclesiastical principality of the...
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Prince-Bishopric of Speyer (redirect from Hochstift Speyer)
Prince-Bishopric of Speyer, formerly known as Spires in English, (German: Hochstift Speyer, Fürstbistum Speyer, Bistum Speyer) was an ecclesiastical principality...
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Paderborn (German: Fürstbistum Paderborn; Hochstift Paderborn) was an ecclesiastical principality (Hochstift) of the Holy Roman Empire from 1281 to 1802...
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so-called Danube Swabians. Their ancestors arrived ca. 1717 - 1804 from the Hochstift Fulda and surroundings (Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda), and settled...
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bus system served by the PaderSprinter for local buses and the Bahnbus Hochstift for regional buses. Paderborn was once the oldest academic site in Westphalia...
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Capital Magdeburg Halle (from 1503) Common languages Eastphalian Government Hochstift Historical era Middle Ages • Archbishopric founded by Emperor Otto...
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territorial meaning the term Stift is then composed with hoch as the compound Hochstift, denoting a prince-bishopric, or Erzstift for a prince-archbishopric....
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Prince-Bishopric of Münster (German: Fürstbistum Münster, Bistum Münster or Hochstift Münster) was a large ecclesiastical principality in the Holy Roman Empire...
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bishops was acquired automatically when they were enfeoffed with their Hochstift (prince-bishopric) and granted immunities. The situation for the prelates...
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Geschichte Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Dieter Weiß: Bamberg, Hochstift: Territorium und Struktur. In: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns Meininger...
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Freiherr (Baron). In 1864, Goethe became a member of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift, the academic society which had purchased his father's childhood home...
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The Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg (German: Fürstbistum Würzburg; Hochstift Würzburg) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire located...
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The Prince-Bishopric of Brandenburg (German: Hochstift Brandenburg) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire from the 12th century...
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The Freies Deutsches Hochstift (Free German Foundation) is a literary association based in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It is the owner of the Goethe House...
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Ludwig Büchner (category Founding members of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift)
1855). Büchner was one of the founding members of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift (Free German Foundation). According to Friedrich Albert Lange (Geschichte...
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and 16th centuries. From the 12th century, its bishops also ruled the Hochstift Brandenburg. The foundation charter of the Brandenburg diocese is dated...
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