Chronology

[Translate to Englisch:] 1561

Cathedral chapter requests establishment of a school for training priests in the electoral capitulation of Bishop Martin von Schaumberg

[Translate to Englisch:] 1564

Bishop Martin von Schaumberg establishes the Collegium Willibaldinum

[Translate to Englisch:] 1565

School is incorporated into the
Ingolstadt Faculty of Arts

[Translate to Englisch:] 1614

Jesuits appointed as supporters and sponsors
(until dissolution of the order in 1773)

[Translate to Englisch:] 1807

Dissolution of the episcopal lyceum
due to secularization

[Translate to Englisch:] 1843

New formation of the lyceum, the later theological college, by Bishop Karl August von Reisach

[Translate to Englisch:] 1924

Lyceum is renamed “Bischöfliche Pädagogische Hochschule” (college of education)

[Translate to Englisch:] 1958

Foundation of the college of education (“Pädagogische Hochschule”)

[Translate to Englisch:] 1972

Establishment of the “Kirchliche
Gesamthochschule Eichstätt”

[Translate to Englisch:] 1980

The “Gesamthochschule” is elevated to university status and becomes the Catholic University of Eichstätt (KUE) with seven faculties.

[Translate to Englisch:] 1985

Resolution for the foundation of a business and economics faculty at the KU Eichstätt that will be located in Ingolstadt

[Translate to Englisch:] 1988

Foundation Charter is issued. Concordat is changed for the purpose of establishing a business and economics faculty

[Translate to Englisch:] 1989

Opening of the KU’s business and economics faculty, the Ingolstadt School of Management

[Translate to Englisch:] 2001

The University is renamed “Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU)” to also reflect the increased importance of the second campus in Ingolstadt.

(Parts taken from Holzbauer, Hermann: Ein alter und ein neuer Bund, pp. 169 and 171.)