Imperial Abbey of Thorn

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The Imperial Abbey of Thorn was a small but influential imperial abbey and principality of the Holy Roman Empire, centered on the town of Thorn (now in the Netherlands) and ruled by an abbess with quasi-sovereign authority.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ecclesiastical principality
imperial abbey
imperial immediacy
country Holy Roman Empire
dissolvedBy French Revolutionary occupation
secularisation
governmentForm princely abbey
theocratic monarchy
hasArchitecturalStyle Baroque
Romanesque
hasCapital Thorn NERFINISHED
hasCoatOfArmsElement abbatial crozier
imperial eagle association
hasEconomicBase feudal dues
landed estates
tithes
hasFiscalAuthority right to levy taxes within its territory
hasJudicialAuthority high justice within its territory
hasJurisdiction territory around Thorn
hasLegislativeBody chapter of noble canonesses
hasMilitaryObligation contingent to imperial army
hasNobleRequirement canonesses of high nobility
hasOfficialLanguage Dutch
German
Latin
hasPoliticalStatus Reichsunmittelbarkeit
imperial immediacy
hasPopulationType clerics
lay inhabitants
noble canonesses
hasRight imperial diet representation through ecclesiastical bench
hasSignificantBuilding Abbey church of Thorn NERFINISHED
chapter buildings of Thorn
hasTerritorialStatus small principality
hasTitleHolder Princess-abbess of Thorn NERFINISHED
headOfGovernment Abbess of Thorn NERFINISHED
headOfState Abbess of Thorn NERFINISHED
heritageSite historic town of Thorn
locatedIn Thorn NERFINISHED
locatedInPresentDay Limburg NERFINISHED
Netherlands NERFINISHED
municipality of Maasgouw NERFINISHED
partOf Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Roman Catholic Church
ruledBy abbess
sovereigntyType quasi-sovereign

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Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle hasPart Imperial Abbey of Thorn