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Imperial Abbey of Burtscheid Abtei Burtscheid | |||||||
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| 1138–1802 | |||||||
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 Burtscheid Abbey church | |||||||
| Status | Imperial Abbey | ||||||
| Capital | Burtscheid Abbey | ||||||
| Common languages | Moselle Franconian | ||||||
| Government | Theocracy | ||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||
• Founded by Benedictines | 997 | ||||||
• Made Reichsfrei | 1138 | ||||||
1220 | |||||||
• Purchased its own Vogtei | 1649 | ||||||
• Established gambling house | 1779 | ||||||
• Occupied by France | 1792, 1794–1804 | ||||||
• Secularised to France | 1802 | ||||||
| 1815 | |||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||
Burtscheid Abbey (German: Abtei Burtscheid) was a Benedictine monastery, after 1220 a Cistercian nunnery, located at Burtscheid, near Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.