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The siege of Nuremberg was a campaign that took place in 1632 about the Imperial City of Nuremberg during the Thirty Years' War. In July 1632, rather than face the numerically superior combined Imperial and Catholic League army under the command of Albrecht von Wallenstein and Bavarian Elector Maximilian I , Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ordered a tactical retreat into the city of Nuremberg .
The city was the scene of numerous Imperial Diets and in 1356 Emperor Charles IV’s "Golden Bull" named Nuremberg as the place where every newly elected ruler had to hold his first Imperial Diet. Nuremberg thus became one of the centres of the empire – in addition to Frankfurt where the kings were elected and Aachen where they were crowned.
Regensburg [a] (historically known in English as Ratisbon [b]) is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers, Danube's northernmost point. It is the capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the fourth-largest city in the State of Bavaria ...
View of the Heilig-Geist-Spital from the west. The Heilig-Geist-Spital (English: Holy Spirit Hospital) in Nuremberg was the largest hospital in the former Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. It was used as a hospital and nursing home. Its chapel was also the depository of the Imperial Regalia, the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire, between ...
1: Until 1806, Frankfurt was known as the "Free Imperial City of Frankfurt" Freie Reichsstadt Frankfurt. With the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the imperial part of the name was dropped upon the city-state's restoration in 1815. For almost five centuries, the German city of Frankfurt was a city-state within two major Germanic ...
It became a Free Imperial City with extensive territorial authority, and having a population of about 60,000. It became Protestant in 1530 and declined after the French Wars of Religion of the 16th century and 17th century. In 1802 it lost its Imperial immediacy and passed to Electorate of Bavaria, being ceded to Kingdom of Württemberg in 1810.
12 de abr. de 2021 · The castle at Nuremberg therefore became an important imperial castle and centre. The castle is made up of three sections: the Imperial Castle, the former Burgraves’ castle, and the buildings erected by the Imperial City at the eastern site. The first buildings are thought to have been built in around 1000 AD.
