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4 unusual facts about Imperial City


Adolph II of Nassau

Adolph also revoked Mainz's privileges and the status as an Imperial City.

Antipope John XXIII

John did so with hesitation, at first trying to have the council held in Italy (rather than in a German Imperial City, as Sigismund wanted).

Diether von Isenburg

On the night of 28 October 1462 Adolph captured the city of Mainz, killed 400 citizens and had another 400 including Johannes Gutenberg exiled, and revoked its town charter and status as an Imperial City.

Endingen am Kaiserstuhl

For a short time in the 15th century, Endingen held the status of an Imperial City (Reichsstadt) of the Holy Roman Empire.


Aachen Rathaus

Since the end of the Imperial City era and the Napoleonic occupation of the area, the structural condition of the City Hall was greatly neglected, so that the building was seen to be falling apart by 1840.

Seltz

In 1357 Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg raised Selz to an Imperial city, after which the town joined the Alsatian Décapole league.


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Ba Dinh Hall

However archaeological remains of the old imperial city of Hanoi, Thang Long, were found on the site and therefore the construction of a new building on the site was delayed.

Erhard Schnepf

He worked first in Neckarmühlbach (near Castle Guttenberg) in the Kraichgau, and from 1523 in the imperial city of Bad Wimpfen, where he married the mayor's daughter Margaretha Wurzelmann.

Free City of Besançon

Besançon became part of the Holy Roman Empire in 1034 and in 1134, as the Archbishopric of Besançon, it gained autonomy as a free imperial city under the Holy Roman Emperor.