Eichstatt

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Eichstätt (not to be confused with Eichstädt) is a town in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the district Eichstätt. It is located along the Altmühl River, at [48°53′30″N, 11°11′0″E], and had a population of 13,078 in 2002. It is home to the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

St. Willibald founded a bishopric here (Bishop of Eichstätt) 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. Eichstätt 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. Eichstätt is famous for the quarries of Solnhofen Stone and Jurassic limestone. On the Blumenberg was found the Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx by Jakob Niemeyer.

Mayor of Eichstätt is Arnulf Neumeyer (SPD).

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