Eichstatt

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 , 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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