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Eichstätt (sometimes written 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 Template:Coor dms, and had a population of 13,078 in 2002.
St. Boniface 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.