Empire, the collective term free and imperial cities (German: Freie und Reichsstädte), briefly worded free imperial city (Freie Reichsstadt, Latin: urbs...
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Free Imperial City of Aachen, also known in English by its French name of Aix-la-Chapelle and today known simply as Aachen, was a Free Imperial City and...
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The Free Imperial City of Nuremberg (German: Freie Reichsstadt Nürnberg) was a free imperial city – independent city-state – within the Holy Roman Empire...
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The Free Imperial City of Ulm was a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire. It is situated on the left bank of the Danube, in a fertile plain at the...
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The Free Imperial City of Besançon was a self-governing free imperial city that was part of the Holy Roman Empire. Its capital was Besançon. From 1184...
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The Imperial Free City of Trieste and its Territory (German: Reichsunmittelbare Stadt Triest und ihr Gebiet, Italian: Città Imperiale di Trieste e Dintorni)...
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The Free Imperial City of Kempten was a Free Imperial City in the Swabian Circle. In 1213, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II declared the abbots of Kempten...
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major city of the Holy Roman Empire, being the seat of imperial elections since 885 and the city for imperial coronations from 1562 (previously in Free Imperial...
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There were 51 Free Imperial Cities in the Holy Roman Empire as of 1792. They are listed here with their official confessional status confirmed by the Peace...
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in a black and white field. Some free imperial cities took to displaying symbols of the empire, especially the Imperial eagle, as part of their flags or...
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History of Cologne (redirect from Free Imperial City of Cologne)
century, Cologne was able to shake off archiepiscopal rule and, as a Free Imperial City, enabled the burgher ruling class to achieve great splendor, visibly...
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Augsburg (redirect from Free Imperial City of Augsburg)
oldest cities, founded in 15 BC by the Romans as Augusta Vindelicorum and named after the Roman emperor Augustus. It was a Free Imperial City from 1276...
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Free city may refer to: Free city (antiquity) a self-governed city during the Hellenistic and Roman imperial eras City-state, an independent sovereign...
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Emperor Frederick II declared the city of Lübeck to be a Free Imperial City. Lübeck law was the constitution of the city's municipal form of government developed...
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Bern (redirect from Free Imperial City of Bern)
medieval city proper was founded by the Zähringer ruling family, probably in 1191 by Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen. Bern was made a free imperial city in 1218...
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of the Imperial Diet (German: Reichsdeputationshauptschluss) in 1802–03, also called the German Mediatisation, most of the free imperial cities and the...
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List of republics (section Free imperial cities)
Free Imperial City of Besançon (1184–1654) Free Imperial City of Hamburg (1189–1806;) Free Imperial City of Konstanz (1192–1548) Free Imperial City of...
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St. Gallen (redirect from Free Imperial City of St. Gallen)
properties that lay outside of the city of St. Gallen and banned him from the Confederation. Ulrich then appealed to the imperial court (as did Schwendiner, who...
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Verdun (redirect from Free Imperial City of Verdun)
part of the middle kingdom of Lotharingia and in 1374 it became a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. The Bishopric of Verdun formed together...
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Wetzlar (redirect from Free Imperial City of Wetzlar)
centers in the state of Hesse. A former free imperial city, it gained much of its fame as the seat of the Imperial Supreme Court (Reichskammergericht) of...
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Worms, Germany (redirect from Free Imperial City of Worms)
far-reaching privileges from King Henry IV as early as 1074, the city became an imperial free city. The bishops resided at Ladenburg and only had jurisdiction...
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the Imperial Diet. In all these respects they were similar to the Imperial Knights. The inhabitants of imperial villages were free men. The imperial villages—relics...
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Hamburg (redirect from Free City of Hamburg)
Hanseatic League and a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. Before the 1871 unification of Germany, it was a fully sovereign city state, and before...
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ecclesiastical states took place concurrently with the mediatisation of free imperial cities and other secular states. The mass mediatisation and secularisation...
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abbots, etc.) and the free imperial cities, that also enjoyed Imperial immediacy. However, unlike all of those, the Imperial knights did not possess...
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F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Free Imperial Cities, Imperial abbeys, Imperial Knights, Imperial Villages This is a list of states in the Holy...
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Bremen (state) (redirect from Free City of Bremen)
been since 1646 (after earlier privileges of autonomy of 1186) the Free Imperial City of Bremen was not mediatised. Rather than being incorporated into...
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Giengen (category Free imperial cities)
[ˈɡɪŋən] ; full name: Giengen an der Brenz; Swabian: Gẽänge) is a former Free Imperial City in eastern Baden-Württemberg near the border with Bavaria in southern...
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Rottweil (redirect from Imperial City of Rottweil)
southwest Germany in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Rottweil was a free imperial city for nearly 600 years. Located between the Black Forest and the Swabian...
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Nordhausen, Thuringia (redirect from Free Imperial City of Nordhausen)
1500. It was the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt, today's capital, and Mühlhausen, the other free imperial city in the land. Nordhausen was...
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