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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.
Weil der Stadt became a Free Imperial City in the 13th century, but had existed for centuries before as an important trading place. The city was completely destroyed during the Thirty Years' War in 1648 but was subsequently rebuilt, and is still dominated by buildings from this period.
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
The free and imperial cities (Freie und Reichsstädte) were a privileged elite among the 2,500 or so towns within the Holy Roman Empire.
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).
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Jun 1, 2022 · English: In the Holy Roman Empire, a free imperial city was a city formally ruled by the emperor only — as opposed to the majority of cities in the Empire, which were governed by one of the many princes of the Empire, such as dukes or prince-bishops.
