Principality of Eichstätt

The Principality of Eichstätt was a mediatised principality within the Kingdom of Bavaria that existed between 1817 and 1833 and encompassed an area around Eichstätt with about 24.000 residents. Proprietors of the principality were the Dukes of Leuchtenberg. In 1833 Bavaria rebought the principality and in 1855 finally for three million Gulden the remaining possessions of the Leuchtenberg heirs. The area was, until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (1803), part of the Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt.

Principality of Eichstätt
1817–1833
Capital	Eichstätt
Common languages	Bavarian
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Government	Principality
Duke of Leuchtenberg
• 1817-1824	Eugène de Beauharnais (first)
• 1824-1835	Auguste de Beauharnais (last)
Historical era	Early Modern Period
• Established	1817
• Disestablished	1833
Currency	Bavarian gulden
Preceded by Succeeded by Kingdom of Bavaria Kingdom of Bavaria
Today part of	Free State of Bavaria

The residence of the princes in Eichstätt

Princes:

1. Eugène de Beauharnais (1781–1824), 1817 Bavarian Duke of Leuchtenberg.
2. Auguste de Beauharnais (1810–1835), 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg since 1824, son of the former.

External links

• Hofstetten castle (de)
• Fürstentum Eichstätt 1817–1833 in Historischer Atlas von Bayern (de)