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Summary

Description	English: Kempten was both a tiny Free Imperial City and an Imperial Abbey, whose territory extended well beyond the city limits. Since both entities enjoyed imperial immediacy ( Reichsunmittelbarkeit ), they were de facto sovereign states, independent of each other and other German states. City and abbey, having their seat in the same town, coexisted uneasily for centuries, the more so that the Free City had been officially Protestant since 1527. Cropped from a map of the Circle of Swabia published by R. Wilkinson in 1802. Français : Kempten était à la fois une petite Ville libre d'Empire et une Abbaye impériale, dont le territoire s'étendait bien au delà des limites de la ville. Les deux entités jouissant chacune du statut d'immédiateté impériale ( Reichsunmittelbarkeit ), elles étaient donc de fait indépendante l'une de l'autre et des autres états allemands. La coexistence des deux entités était parfois difficile, d'autant plus que le Ville libre était officiellement protestante depuis 1527. Extrait d'une carte du Cercle de Souabe publiée par R. Wilkinson en 1802.
Date	18 April 2012
Source	Own work
Author	Lubiesque

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