Nuremberg, shown within the Holy Roman Empire as at 1648
Territory of the Imperial City, with modern district borders in yellow. City lands in darker pink, condominiums in paler pink.
Status
Free Imperial City
Capital
Nuremberg
Official languages
German
Religion
Roman Catholic, from 1525 Lutheran
Demonym(s)
Nuremberger
Government
Oligarchic republic
Historical era
Middle Ages
• First documentary mention
1050
• Großen Freiheitsbrief
1219
• Burgraviate sold to city, exc. Blutgericht
1427
• Golden Bull
1356
• Landshut War of Succession
1503–05
• Reformation
1525
• Annexed by Bavaria
1806
Area
• Total
1.200 km2 (0.463 sq mi)
Population
• 1648 estimate
25,000
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Burgraviate of Nuremberg
Kingdom of Bavaria
Today part of
Germany
The Free Imperial City of Nuremberg (German: Freie Reichsstadt Nürnberg) was a free imperial city – independent city-state – within the Holy Roman Empire. After Nuremberg gained piecemeal independence from the Burgraviate of Nuremberg in the High Middle Ages and considerable territory from Bavaria in the Landshut War of Succession, it grew to become one of the largest and most important Imperial cities, the 'unofficial capital' of the Empire, particularly because numerous Imperial Diets (Reichstage) and courts met at Nuremberg Castle between 1211 and 1543. Because of the many Diets of Nuremberg, Nuremberg became an important routine place of the administration of the Empire during this time. The Golden Bull of 1356, issued by Emperor Charles IV (reigned 1346–1378), named Nuremberg as the city where newly elected kings of Germany must hold their first Imperial Diet, making Nuremberg one of the three highest cities of the Empire.[1]
The cultural flowering of Nuremberg, in the 15th and 16th centuries, made it the center of the German Renaissance. Increased trade routes elsewhere and the ravages of the major European wars of the 17th and 18th centuries caused the city to decline and incur sizeable debts, resulting in the city's absorption into the new Kingdom of Bavaria on the signing of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806, becoming one of the many territorial casualties of the Napoleonic Wars in a period known as the German mediatisation.
^"Nürnberg, Reichsstadt: Politische und soziale Entwicklung" [Political and Social Development of the Imperial City of Nuremberg]. Historisches Lexikon Bayerns (in German).
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