The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society around 1190 in Acre, established to support German-speaking Christian pilgrims and to provide hospital care in the Holy Land during the Crusades. It went on to conquer and rule a state of its own along the Baltic coast, converting and administering the peoples of Prussia and Livonia through the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The order's military and territorial role ended in 1810, after which it continued, and continues today, as a purely religious and charitable Catholic organization headquartered in Vienna.
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Dissolved1809 is the year Napoleon secularized the Teutonic Order's remaining German territorial state, ending it as a political and military power. This is not the end of the Teutonic Order itself: the religious order survived the loss of its state and continues today as a Roman Catholic institute based in Vienna, now devoted chiefly to charitable and hospital work rather than knighthood or territorial rule. The dissolved-year recorded here describes the STATE, not the still-living religious order. Organization TypeCatholic religious institution, a military order until 1810 and a charitable order since 1 FoundedFounded circa 1190 in Acre. HeadquartersAcre, Kingdom of Jerusalem (founding); Vienna, Austria (present day) 1 IndustryCatholic religious institution and military order 2 Organization Type
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An autonomous branch of the Teutonic Order, formed after the crusading conquest of Livonia.
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having transitioned from military operations to purely religious and philanthropic work since 1810.
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The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society c. 1190.
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founded as a military society c. 1190 in Acre.
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founded as a military society c. 1190 in Acre.
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The fraternity which preceded the formation of the Order was founded around 1190 in Acre by German merchants from Bremen and Lübeck during the siege of Acre, as part of the Third Crusade to the Holy Land.
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