Friedberg (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁiːtˌbɛʁk] ; official name: Friedberg (Hessen)) is a town and the capital of the Wetteraukreis district, in Hesse...

the neighboring Reichsstadt Friedberg and the Freigericht Kaichen included a narrow strip of land in the southern Wetterau, Friedberg Castle can be regarded...

(German: Freie und Reichsstädte), briefly worded free imperial city (Freie Reichsstadt, Latin: urbs imperialis libera), was used from the fifteenth century...

council presided over a majority Protestant population; see Paritätische Reichsstadt. Augsburg's economic boom years occurred during the 15th and 16th centuries...

members; neither qualified as Imperial States. Imperial Free City (freie Reichsstadt): a city formally responsible to the emperor only – as opposed to the...

administration together with other imperial castles such as Frankfurt, Friedberg, Wetzlar, Trebur and Seligenstadt. The Gelnhausen palace also controlled...

independent state as part of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1232 Wiesbaden became a Reichsstadt, an imperial city, of the Holy Roman Empire. However, in 1242, during...

around 1380. Book trade fairs began in 1478. In 1372, Frankfurt became a Reichsstadt (Imperial Free City), i.e., directly subordinate to the Holy Roman Emperor...

Alterthumskunde, Frankfurt am Main 1920. Eduard Pelissier: Die Landwehren der Reichsstadt Frankfurt am Main. Topographisch-historische Untersuchung. Völcker, Frankfurt...

federation of cities with Mainz, Worms, Bingen, Frankfurt, Gelnhausen and Friedberg. Yet, mainly at the instigation of the church, this federation was prohibited...