Eichstätt

Eichstätt, a town of Bavaria, is situated in a deep valley on the left bank of the Altmühl, 67 miles NNW. of Munich. Here are the palace of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg, the cathedral (1259), the town-house (1444), and, on a neighbouring eminence, the ruined Wilibaldsburg. Eichstätt became a bishopric in 745, was capital of a small principality, and became finally Bavarian in 1855. Pop. 7631.