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Eichstatt is a town inside the federal country of Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the district of Eichstatt. It is positioned on the Altmühl river and has a population of round 13,000. Eichstatt is likewise the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Eichstatt. St. Willibald based the Diocese of Eichstatt at the site of an antique Roman station in 741. The town became chartered in 908. It became ruled by a prince-bishop, and in the Holy Roman Empire was the seat of the Bishopric of Eichstatt till secularization in 1802. In 1806, it have become a part of the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Eichstatt became protected as part of the Principality of Eichstatt, which King Maximilian I granted to his son-in-regulation Eugene de Beauharnais in 1817 and an episcopal see become reestablished in 1821. During the 870s, the remains of St. Walpurg a were transferred from their original Heidenheim interment to Eichstatt, where in 1035 the more recent burial site became enshrined as the Benedictine Abbey of St. Walburga, which maintains to at the present time. In 1943, the painter Karl Friedrich Lippmann moved to Eichstatt and stayed till 1955. Hortus Eystettensis is the call of an vital botanical e-book first posted in 1613 and written by using Basilius Besler.

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