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Eichstädt
Eichstätt is a town located along the Altmühl River , capital of the district Eichstätt in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany.
St. Boniface founded a bishopric here on the site of an old Roman station in 741. The town was chartered in 908 and ruled by a prince-bishop until secularization in 1802, when it became a part of Bavaria. Eichstädt was included as part of the landgraviate of Leuchtenberg , which Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria granted to his son-in-law Eugène de Beauharnais in 1817 and an episcopal see was reestablished in 1821. The town reverted back to Bavaria in 1855.
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