An der Etsch
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An der Etsch und im Gebirge (German for 'On the Etsch and in the Mountains') was a bailiwick (Ballei) of the Teutonic Order, created about 1260 and headquartered in Bolzano (Bozen), now in the Italian province of South Tyrol, comprising several commandries in the former County of Tyrol and the adjacent Bishopric of Trent.
Quick Facts Teutonic Bailiwick on the Adige and in the mountainsDeutschordensballei An der Etsch und im Gebirge, Status ...
Teutonic Bailiwick on the Adige and in the mountains Deutschordensballei An der Etsch und im Gebirge | |||||||
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1260–1805 | |||||||
Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||
Capital | Bolzano 46.493526°N 11.340593°E / 46.493526; 11.340593 | ||||||
Common languages | Southern Bavarian | ||||||
Government | Theocracy | ||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||
• Established | 1260 | ||||||
• Joined Austrian Circle | 1512 | ||||||
1805 | |||||||
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One of the Teutonic provinces within the Holy Roman Empire, An der Etsch held the feudal status of Imperial immediacy as a registered Imperial State. Its commandries were subordinate to a Landkomtur (commendator provincialis), who himself was answerable to the Deutschmeister commander of all bailiwicks in Germany and Italy, at times directly to the Grand Master.