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  Science Fair Projects - List of states in the Holy Roman Empire
Bishopric of Passau (secularized 1803, to Bavaria and Salzburg)
Bishopric of Fulda (an abbacy to 1752, secularized 1803, to Nassau-Orange)
Bishopric of Halberstadt (secularized 1648, to Brandenburg as the Principality of Halberstadt)
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 wiki/Konstanz Definition / wiki/Konstanz Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Konstanz (English traditionally Constance) is a small universityA university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees.
Konstanz is situated on the river Rhine At 1,320 km (820 miles), the Rhine River (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn) is one of the longest rivers in Europe.
The new Habsburg overlords were eager to re-CatholiciseThe Counter-Reformation or the Catholic Reformation was a strong reaffirmation of the doctrine and structure of the Catholic Church, climaxing at the Council of Trent, partly in reaction to the growth of Protestantism....
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 Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In Konstanz in 1183, Emperor Frederick I recognized the Lombard League.
Emperor Charles V, after defeating the League, deprived Konstanz of its free imperial status and gave it to his brother, later Emperor Ferdinand I. Konstanz was in Austrian hands from 1548 until it was ceded (1805) to Baden.
Among the numerous historic buildings in Konstanz are the cathedral (11th cent.; additions 15th and 17th cent.); the Council building (1388); and a former Dominican convent (now a hotel), the birthplace (1838) of Graf von Zeppelin, the soldier and aviator.
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 Konstanz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
With the defeat of the Protestants (1547), the city lost its free imperial status, became Roman Catholic again, and fell under Austrian rule until it was assigned to the duchy of Baden in 1805.
The 11th-century Romanesque-Gothic Münster was the cathedral until the bishopric was suppressed in 1821.
Konstanz, which lies at the end of the Black Forest and Upper Rhine railways, is connected to the Swiss railway network.
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 Konstanz, Baden-Wurttemberg, Pictures
Konstanz, city, southwestern Germany, in Baden-Württemberg, on the Rhine River, at its exit from the Bodensee, at the Swiss border.
In 570 it was made the seat of a bishopric, which existed as one of the most powerful in Germany until its suppression in 1821.
In 780 Konstanz was given municipal rights and in 1192 was made a free imperial city.
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 Encyclopedia: List of states in the Holy Roman Empire
In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop heading a diocese of particular importance due to either its size, history, or both, called an archdiocese.
The Bishopric of Bamberg was an ecclesiastical principality in the Holy Roman Empire, located around the city of Bamberg in Upper Franconia, also including the city of Erlangen.
Konstanz (English traditionally Constance) is a small university town of around 80,000 people on the shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in the south-west corner of Germany, bordering Switzerland.
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 PageR.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The bishopric was represented by Osnabrueck in the Catholic corpus.
The bishopric was secularized in 1803 and territory passed to Elector of Mainz Karl von Dalberg....
Territory merged with the bishopric of Konstanz and lost it Recihstag vote in 1548.
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 Lista de estados en el imperio romano santo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bishopric de gusanos (secularized 1803, a sus del banco izquierdo territorios de Hesse-Darmstad, que eran anexados ya por Francia)
Bishopric de Speyer (secularized 1803, a sus del banco izquierdo territorios de Baden, que eran anexados ya por Francia)
Bishopric de Fulda (una abacía a 1752, secularized 1803, a Nassau-Anaranjado)
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 sights
In one of the three fountain basins, three somewhat portly gentlemen recline in relaxed and expansive mood.
In another is the alluring and well-endowed figure of "Konstanze", surrounded by the gambolling piglets with human faces.
Placed on and around the triumphal arch are motorists at the wheel, children strapped in by seat belts, infants twisting the steering wheel and life-size rockers - all in cast stone - spouting water into the basins.
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 Germany 1648-1918
Bishoprics: Augsburg, Bamberg, Basel, Brixen (Bressanone), Eichstätt, Freising, Hildesheim, Konstanz, Lübeck, Lüttich, Münster, Osnabrück, Paderborn, Passau, Regensburg, Schwerin, Speyer, Straßburg, Trient (Trento), Worms, Würzburg.
Final Recess (Reichsdeputationshauptschluß): all ecclesiastical territories are waived and incorporated to secular territories as a refund of the losses west of the Rhine, the same is done with numerous small territories and most Imperial Cities.
Prussia (for example) acquires the bishoprics of Münster, Hildesheim and Paderborn, Erfurt and the Eichsfeld area of Mainz.
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 Konstanz --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Little is known of his life, though he appears to have been a cathedral canon in Konstanz about 1300 and a teacher at the University of Paris during the 1330s.
Belonging to the city of Konstanz, it is 3 miles (5 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide and is connected to the mainland by a causeway 1.25 miles (2 km) long.
Konstanz, Germany-based pharmaceutical company manufacturing diagnostic imaging tools and treatments for gastrointestinal, respiratory, and cardiac diseases.
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 History of BW - Bishoprics and Monasteries in the Middle Ages
Worms, Speyer, Strassburg, Basel and Constance (Konstanz) lay on the left of the Rhine; Augsburg lay east of the Iller and south of the Danube.
In contrast to the spiritual jurisdictions is the temporal rule of the bishops that arose only later in the 13th century.
Constance was the largest bishopric not only of the southwest, but in all of Germany.
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 Domus Cygna - The Estate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
While the covenant does not owe fealty to either the Counts of Werdenberg or the Bishops of Konstanz, its status as a Hermetic covenant is known, and they may approach the magi for aid or advise as needed.
This is a legacy of the southern covenant's generous assistance replacing the maps and charts lost in the library fire of 1122, and a reflection of the long friendship between Caius Darius and Ferrian of Gibraltar.
Additionally, the covenant's traditional monastic allies on the island of Reichenau are under increasing pressure from the Bishop of Konstanz to surrender control of their land to the bishopric, and Rudolf, the Baron of St.Gallen, has become entangled in a feud between Lord Eys and his cousin, Vincent, the Lord of Steckborn.
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 German archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The archive is the depository for all church books and registers of the bishopric of Augsburg, the records of 200 parishes, personnel files of church leaders and priests, and numerous documents and diplomas from the Middle Ages and early modern times.
The archive is the main depository for the administrative records of the archdiocese of Freiburg from 1827 to the present, as well as a portion of the records of the bishoprics to which Freiburg's territory belonged in the past (Konstanz, Mainz, Speyer, Straßburg, Worms, and Würzburg).
The archive chronicles the history of the bishopric of Hildesheim, with particular enphasis on its development from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
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 King Wenceslas IV. - 07-08-2002 - Radio Prague
In 1383, Wenceslas was on bad terms with the church hierarchy and part of Czech nobility, and his plan was to established a new bishopric in the town of Kladruby, which would be under him.
The situation culminated in 1414 and 1415, when Hus decided to attend a church council in the German town of Konstanz, where he could defend his teaching before the assembly of the highest dignitaries of Roman church.
Hus was burnt at stake in Konstanz in July 1415, but his supporters went on fighting....
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 From the History of Samogitia
Despite the fact that the Konstanz church council didn’t solve the problem of Samogitia, however, they fulfilled most important Samogitianis request „to authorize Jogaila and Vytautas to take the Vilnius Bishop Petras and the Lvov Archbishop Jonas go to Samogitia in order to christen us and build a cathedral and churches in our region”.
In summer 1417 upon the arrival of Vytautas and the Vilnius and Lvov bishops to Samogitia thousands of the Samogitians were baptized.
In the autumn of 1417 when christening was drawing to a close Vytautas returned to Samogitia and chose the capital of bishopric – Medininkai.
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 History of BW - The Duchy of Swabia
Namely, the bishopric of Constance is called "simply the Alemanic bishopric." The situation of the episcopal city brings to our attention that Lake Constance was the center of the Duchy of Swabia.
The bishopric of Constance was, to be sure, not congruent with the Alemanic territory.
Alsace belonged to the bishoprics of Basel and Strassburg.
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 Prague : In Depth : History | Frommers.com
In 973, a bishopric was established in Prague, answering to the archbishopric of Mainz.
Protestant Reformation -- While Charles IV was the most heralded of the Bohemian kings, the short reign of his son Václav IV was marked by social upheaval, a devastating plague, and the advent of turbulent religious dissent.
Excommunicated in 1412 and charged with heresy 2 years later, Hus was burned at the stake on July 6, 1415, in Konstanz (Constance), Germany, an event that sparked widespread riots and ultimately civil war.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: The Life of Burchard Bishop of Worms, 1025
It is a wondrous and truly amazing thing that the one candidate did not see the fourteenth day after his election and acceptance of the bishopric, while the other had not even lived to see the fourth day.
Receiving the archbishop with honor, the emperor explained to him the case of the bishopric of Worms and fully recounted the amazing deaths of the two men.
Indeed, it was most suited not to man's use but to the lairs of beasts and especially wolves, because the flatness of the location and the destruction of the wall offered easy access to wild animals and robbers.
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This study is based on excavations conducted by the archaeological authorities of Damascus and Konstanz University in Djinderis / Gindarus near Antioch from 1993 onwards.
During the Middle Roman period a lower town originated and was devastated by Shapur I. in 253.
The final bloom of Early Byzantine times is evident from a bishopric, a monastery, a building of the 4th / 5th century and the lower town.
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 International Symposium on Electrokinetic Phenomena - General Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
For the year 2000, Cracow, former capital of Poland, since 1000 years the town of art and science, was nominated to be “The Capital of European Culture”.
Cracow, at the end of the tenth century a seat of the bishopric, was in the eleventh century developed into a flourishing city built in Romanesque style.
During the great general council in Konstanz (1414-18) the jurist Paweł Włodkowic, then the Rector of the University, became famous for his, novel for the time, concepts of the national sovereignty, religious tolerance and advocated the rights of pagan nations.
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 AllRefer.com - Konstanz, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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The bishops became powerful and held large territories, including much of Baden-WUrttemberg and Switzerland, as princes of the Holy Roman Empire.
The bishopric was suppressed in 1821, and the diocese was abolished in 1827.
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 VirtualTourist.com - Pakistaniguy's Konstanz Travel Page
Constance is Cultural and Economic center of Lake of Konstanz, which is also known as "Bodensee" in German Language.
Constance is a very old and historical town of Germany and it was first settled by Romans.
It played a leading role in Middle ages when it was the center of the ´Duchy of Swabia´, whose territory included much of Europe and it was also the largest Bishopric, North of the (swiss) Alps.
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 Featured Country
CONSTANCE (KONSTANZ): Constance is a German university and cathedral town on the Bodensee (Lake Constance) which has shores in Austria, Switzerland and the Germany.
Constance (Konstanz) is a frontier anomaly, a German town on the Swiss side of the lake, completely surrounded by Swiss territory except for a strip on the waterfront.
Opposite the town of Constance (Konstanz) is Meersburg, an old town with two castles.
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 Women in power 1350-1400
She was elected 25.7.1371 and inaugurated by the bishop of Konstanz at 5.9.
In 1387 she led a military expedition to reconquer the Duchy of Halych and in 1390 she began to correspond with the Teutonic Knights.
She gave much of her wealth to charity, including foundation of hospitals, she founded the bishopric in Vilnius and resored the Academy of Kraków, since called Jagiellonian University in honor of her and her husband.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Constance
613) the bishopric was offered to St. Gall who, however, refused the dignity and recommended his disciple John in his stead.
Merck, Chronik des Bisthums Konstanz (Constance, 1627); Neugart, Episcopatus Constantiensis (to 1306), (St. Blasien, 1803 and Freiburg, 1862); Idem, Codex Diplomaticus (St. Blasien, 1791-5); Ladewig, Regesta Episcoporum Constantiensium (in German) von Bubulcus bis Thomas Berlower, 517-1496 (Innsbruck, 1886-90); Ludwig, Die Konstanzer Geschichtsschreibung bis zum 18.
For the city of Constance: Eiselein, Geschichte und Beschreibung der Stadt Konstanz (Constance 1851); Beyerle, Konstanz im 30-jährigen Krieg (1900); Idem, Grundeigenthumsverhältnisse und Bürgerrecht im mittelalterlichen Konstanz (1900-02).
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 Events in Religion and Philosophy
Der deutsche Koenig Sigismund lud dazu Hus ein, der dort seine Ansichten erlaeutern sollte und garantiete ihm freies Geleit.
In Konstanz angekommen, wurde Hus gefangengenommen und vom Konzil wegen Haeresie angeklagt.
(Heinrich had founded the Bishopric of Bamberg earlier.) Heinrich was canonized in 1146 by Pope Eugenius III.
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 wiki/History of Baden Definition / wiki/History of Baden Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1796 the margrave was compelled to pay an indemnity, and to cede his territories on the left bank of the Rhine to France.
[click for more], emperor of Russia, he received the bishopricIn some Christian churches, the diocese is an administrative territorial unit governed by a bishop, sometimes also referred to as a bishopric or episcopal see, though more often the term episcopal see means the office held by the bishop.
In the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England and the Episcopal Church, an important diocese, governed by an Archbishop is called an archdiocese (usually due to size or historical significance).
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 Domus Cygna - The Neighbors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Your own Bishop of Konstanz, fortunately, largely ignores the Order and its members rather than following the ill-advised course his neighbor has chosen.
Gebhard II, the 62nd Bishop of Konstanz, inhabits Altes Schloss in the village of Meersburg and spends much of his time pursuing political alliances.
The bishops of Konstanz have a long tradition of rivalry and interferrence with the abbots of Reicheanau, and Gebhard firmly believs that the "monastary island" will eventually become the property of his bishopric.
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 Konstanz - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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