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Eichstätt (formerly also Eichstädt or Aichstädt) is a city in the federal state of Bavaria
Bavaria

Bavaria , with an area of and almost 12.5 million inhabitants, is a region located in the southeast of Germany and is the largest States of Germany of Germany by area....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, and capital of the District of Eichstätt
Eichstätt (district)

Eichst?tt is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Donau-Ries, Wei?enburg-Gunzenhausen, Roth , Neumarkt , Kelheim and Pfaffenhofen , and by the city of Ingolstadt....
. 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, the lone Catholic university in Germany.

St. Willibald
Willibald

Saint Willibald was an 8th century bishop of Eichst?tt in Bavaria.Information about his life is largely drawn from the Hodoeporicon of Saint Willibald, a text written in the 8th century by Huneberc, an Anglo-Saxon nun from Heidenheim am Hahnenkamm who knew Willibald and his brother personally....
 founded the Bishopric of Eichstätt
Bishopric of Eichstätt

The Bishopric of Eichst?tt was a small ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire. Centered on the city of Eichst?tt, it lies in Bavaria, somewhat to the west of Regensburg, to the north of Neuburg an der Donau and Ingolstadt, to the south of Nuremberg, and to the southeast of Ansbach....
 on the site of an old Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 station in 741. The city was chartered in 908 and ruled by a prince-bishop
Prince-Bishop

A Prince-Bishop is a bishop who is a territorial Prince of the Church on account of one or more secular principalities, usually pre-existent titles of nobility held concurrently with their inherent clerical office....
 until secularization in 1802, and became a part of Bavaria in 1806.






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Eichstätt (formerly also Eichstädt or Aichstädt) is a city in the federal state of Bavaria
Bavaria

Bavaria , with an area of and almost 12.5 million inhabitants, is a region located in the southeast of Germany and is the largest States of Germany of Germany by area....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, and capital of the District of Eichstätt
Eichstätt (district)

Eichst?tt is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Donau-Ries, Wei?enburg-Gunzenhausen, Roth , Neumarkt , Kelheim and Pfaffenhofen , and by the city of Ingolstadt....
. 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, the lone Catholic university in Germany.

St. Willibald
Willibald

Saint Willibald was an 8th century bishop of Eichst?tt in Bavaria.Information about his life is largely drawn from the Hodoeporicon of Saint Willibald, a text written in the 8th century by Huneberc, an Anglo-Saxon nun from Heidenheim am Hahnenkamm who knew Willibald and his brother personally....
 founded the Bishopric of Eichstätt
Bishopric of Eichstätt

The Bishopric of Eichst?tt was a small ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire. Centered on the city of Eichst?tt, it lies in Bavaria, somewhat to the west of Regensburg, to the north of Neuburg an der Donau and Ingolstadt, to the south of Nuremberg, and to the southeast of Ansbach....
 on the site of an old Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 station in 741. The city was chartered in 908 and ruled by a prince-bishop
Prince-Bishop

A Prince-Bishop is a bishop who is a territorial Prince of the Church on account of one or more secular principalities, usually pre-existent titles of nobility held concurrently with their inherent clerical office....
 until secularization in 1802, and became a part of Bavaria in 1806. In 2008, the city celebrated the 1100th anniversary of its charter. Eichstätt was included as part of the Landgraviate of Leuchtenberg
Leuchtenberg

Leuchtenberg is a Municipalities of Germany in the district of Neustadt in Bavaria in Germany, essentially a suburb of nearby Weiden in der Oberpfalz, and a historical region in Holy Roman Empire governed by the Landgrave of Leuchtenberg....
, which Maximilian I Joseph
Maximilian I of Bavaria

Maximilian I was prince-elector of Bavaria from 1799 to 1805, king of Bavaria from 1806 to 1825. He was a member of the House of Palatinate-Birkenfeld, a branch of the House of Wittelsbach....
 of Bavaria granted to his son-in-law Eugène de Beauharnais
Eugène de Beauharnais

Eug?ne Rose de Beauharnais, Prince Fran?ais, Prince of Venice, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy , Hereditary Grand Duke of Frankfurt, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg and 1st Prince of Eichst?tt ad personam was the first child and only son of the future French emperor Napoleon's first wife, Josephine de Beauharnais and Alexandre, Vicomte de Bea...
 in 1817 and an episcopal
Bishop

A bishop is an ordination or consecration member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight....
 see was reestablished in 1821. The town reverted back to Bavaria in 1855. Eichstätt is famous for the quarries
Quarries

Quarries - The "Royal Quarries" ? not found in Scripture ? is the namegiven to the vast caverns stretching far underneath the northern hill, Bezetha, on which Jerusalem is built....
 of Solnhofen Stone and Jurassic limestone. On the Blumenberg the Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx, sometimes referred to by its German name Urvogel , is the earliest and most primitive bird known. The name is from the Ancient Greek archaios meaning 'ancient' and pteryx meaning 'feather' or 'wing'; ....
 was found by Jakob Niemeyer.

Mayor of Eichstätt is Arnulf Neumeyer (SPD).