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In the Holy Roman Empire, the collective term free and imperial cities (German: Freie und Reichsstädte), briefly worded free imperial city (Freie Reichsstadt, Latin: urbs imperialis libera), was used from the 15th century to denote a self-ruling city that had a certain amount of autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet. [1]
Created a free imperial city after 1256, it joined the Hanseatic League about 1420. After the Reformation Mühlhausen became a centre of the people’s reform movement, and during the Peasants’ War (1524–25) against the feudal princes it was associated with the peasant leader Thomas Müntzer, who was executed there after the Battle of ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In the Holy Roman Empire, the collective term Free and Imperial Cities (German: Freie und Reichsstädte), briefly worded Free imperial city (Freie Reichsstadt, Latin: urbs imperialis libera) from the 15th century was used to denote a self-ruling city that enjoyed a certain amount of autonomy.
Imperial city, any of the cities and towns of the Holy Roman Empire that were subject only to the authority of the emperor, or German king, on whose demesne (personal estate) the earliest of them originated. The term freie Reichsstadt, or Free Imperial City, was sometimes used interchangeably with.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
There were 51 Free Imperial Cities in the Holy Roman Empire as of 1792. [1] They are listed here with their official confessional status confirmed by the Peace of Westphalia (1648).
In the Holy Roman Empire, the collective term free and imperial cities (German: Freie und Reichsstädte), briefly worded free imperial city (Freie Reichsstadt, Latin: urbs imperialis libera), was used from the fifteenth century to denote a self-ruling city that had a certain amount of autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet.
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The most important event taking place in Mühlhausen concerning the history of the Holy Roman Empire was the election of Philipp von Schwaben from the Staufer dynasty as king of the Roman-German Empire, which took place on 8 March 1198.
