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Should it not be "Free Imperial City"? -- 128.176.76.160 16:38, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was move. JPG-GR ( talk) 18:50, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
The article indicates that one city, after loosing its rights "was able to regain its immediacy." Should this be immediately, eventually, or is immediacy a technical term? Stifynsemons ( talk) 04:42, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Before You ask: I am a historian.-- 139.30.128.38 ( talk) 10:26, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Mortgaged cities: Gelnhausen
The list Lost imperial immediacy or no longer part of the Holy Roman Empire by 1792 in Template:Free imperial cities includes Gelnhausen, which is a good example for this case. While looking whether it had imperial immediacy in the 17th century I found ( History of Gelnhausen [de]) that it was continually mortgaged by the emperor from 1349 to 1803 to changing creditors. Additionally, the German version of this article ( Freie Reichsstadt)'s entry for Gelnhausen says "protracted struggles from 1600 to about 1750 about the legal status of the town's immediacy". This was by far not the only such case, as stated in Reichspfandschaft [de] (which sadly lacks an exhaustive list).
Contradictory imperial documents: Essen
For the city of Essen there exist two imperial charters concerning immediacy, issued only five years apart (in 1372 and 1377), that first confirmed possession of the town, including immediacy, to the Princess of Essen Abbey and then to Essen city council. This created an unclear legal situation and recurring disputes until the Empire's dissolution in 1803.
Given time I'd like to do some sources work and add a new section "Disputed cases" (or similar).
I would appreciate some help with that endeavour.
ΟΥΤΙΣ (
talk) 07:04, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
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.[1] An imperial city held the status of Imperial immediacy, and as such, was subordinate only to the Holy Roman Emperor, as opposed to a territorial city or town (Landstadt) which was subordinate to a territorial prince – be it an ecclesiastical lord (prince-bishop, prince-abbot) or a secular prince (duke (Herzog), margrave, count (Graf), etc.). 112.198.112.253 ( talk) 14:22, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
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Should it not be "Free Imperial City"? -- 128.176.76.160 16:38, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was move. JPG-GR ( talk) 18:50, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
The article indicates that one city, after loosing its rights "was able to regain its immediacy." Should this be immediately, eventually, or is immediacy a technical term? Stifynsemons ( talk) 04:42, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Before You ask: I am a historian.-- 139.30.128.38 ( talk) 10:26, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Mortgaged cities: Gelnhausen
The list Lost imperial immediacy or no longer part of the Holy Roman Empire by 1792 in Template:Free imperial cities includes Gelnhausen, which is a good example for this case. While looking whether it had imperial immediacy in the 17th century I found ( History of Gelnhausen [de]) that it was continually mortgaged by the emperor from 1349 to 1803 to changing creditors. Additionally, the German version of this article ( Freie Reichsstadt)'s entry for Gelnhausen says "protracted struggles from 1600 to about 1750 about the legal status of the town's immediacy". This was by far not the only such case, as stated in Reichspfandschaft [de] (which sadly lacks an exhaustive list).
Contradictory imperial documents: Essen
For the city of Essen there exist two imperial charters concerning immediacy, issued only five years apart (in 1372 and 1377), that first confirmed possession of the town, including immediacy, to the Princess of Essen Abbey and then to Essen city council. This created an unclear legal situation and recurring disputes until the Empire's dissolution in 1803.
Given time I'd like to do some sources work and add a new section "Disputed cases" (or similar).
I would appreciate some help with that endeavour.
ΟΥΤΙΣ (
talk) 07:04, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
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.[1] An imperial city held the status of Imperial immediacy, and as such, was subordinate only to the Holy Roman Emperor, as opposed to a territorial city or town (Landstadt) which was subordinate to a territorial prince – be it an ecclesiastical lord (prince-bishop, prince-abbot) or a secular prince (duke (Herzog), margrave, count (Graf), etc.). 112.198.112.253 ( talk) 14:22, 28 March 2022 (UTC)