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)...

The Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück (‹See Tfd›German: Hochstift Osnabrück; Fürstbistum Osnabrück, Bistum Osnabrück) was an ecclesiastical principality of...

Trent (Latin: Episcopatus ac Principatus Tridentinus; ‹See Tfd›German: Hochstift Trient, Fürstbistum Trient, Bistum Trient) was an ecclesiastical principality...

intensified between burghers and bishops. The principality or prince-bishopric (Hochstift) ruled politically by a prince-bishop could wholly or largely have overlapped...

operated as a museum since its 1863 purchase by the Freies Deutsches Hochstift (Free German Foundation), displaying period furniture and paintings from...

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...

Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg (‹See Tfd›German: Fürstbistum Augsburg; Hochstift Augsburg) was one of the prince-bishoprics of the Holy Roman Empire, and...

The Prince-Bishopric of Warmia (Polish: Biskupie Księstwo Warmińskie; ‹See Tfd›German: Fürstbistum Ermland) was a semi-independent ecclesiastical state...

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...

The Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim (‹See Tfd›German: Hochstift Hildesheim, Fürstbistum Hildesheim, Bistum Hildesheim) was an ecclesiastical principality...

such exercised political authority over a principality, their so-called Hochstift, which was distinct, and usually considerably smaller than their diocese...

The Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg (‹See Tfd›German: Hochstift Bamberg) was an ecclesiastical State of the Holy Roman Empire. It goes back to the Roman Catholic...

Prince-Bishopric of Regensburg (‹See Tfd›German: Fürstbistum Regensburg; Hochstift Regensburg) was a small ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman...

territorial meaning the term Stift is then composed with hoch as the compound Hochstift, denoting a prince-bishopric, or Erzstift for a prince-archbishopric....

(‹See Tfd›German: Fürstbistum Paderborn; Hochstift Paderborn) was an ecclesiastical principality (Hochstift) of the Holy Roman Empire from 1281 to 1802...

The Freies Deutsches Hochstift (Free German Foundation) is a literary association based in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It is the owner of the Goethe House...

Prince-Bishopric of Speyer, formerly known as Spires in English, (German: Hochstift Speyer, Fürstbistum Speyer, Bistum Speyer) was an ecclesiastical principality...

Freiherr (Baron). In 1864, Goethe became a member of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift, the academic society which had purchased his father's childhood home...

so-called Danube Swabians. Their ancestors arrived ca. 1717 - 1804 from the Hochstift Fulda and surroundings (Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda), and settled...

Prince-Bishopric of Münster (‹See Tfd›German: Fürstbistum Münster, Bistum Münster or Hochstift Münster) was a large ecclesiastical principality in the Holy Roman Empire...

Geschichte Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Dieter Weiß: Bamberg, Hochstift: Territorium und Struktur. In: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns Meininger...

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...

bishops was acquired automatically when they were enfeoffed with their hochstift and granted immunities. The situation for the prelates (abbots) was not...

Lüneburg. He was the founder and first chairman of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift, which he led from 1859 to 1882. Volger was born to Wilhelm Friedrich...

The Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck, (‹See Tfd›German: Hochstift Lübeck; Fürstbistum Lübeck; Bistum Lübeck) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy...

Capital Magdeburg Halle (from 1503) Common languages Eastphalian Government Hochstift Historical era Middle Ages • Archbishopric founded    by Emperor Otto...

(Reichsabtei) (Imperial abbacy, a monastery enjoying Imperial immediacy) Hochstift: the territory ruled by a bishop as a prince. Imperial Abbey (Reichsabtei):...

The Prince-Bishopric of Brandenburg (‹See Tfd›German: Hochstift Brandenburg) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire from the 12th...

1855). Büchner was one of the founding members of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift (Free German Foundation). According to Friedrich Albert Lange (Geschichte...

existed from the 10th to the early 19th century. It consisted of the Hochstift—the temporal possessions—of the archbishop of Cologne, and was ruled by...