List of German city foundations / 12. century

First documentary mention

The following places, which later became cities, were founded in the 12th century or first mentioned in a document:

1100 Aach (Hegau)
1104 Treffurt , first documented mention
1105 Gehren , first documented mention
1105 Krefeld , first documented mention as "Krinvelde"
1106 Bad Lausick , first documented mention
1107 Wiesdorf , first documented mention (city 1921)
1108 Oldenburg (Oldb) , first documented mention as "Aldenburg"
1108 Geislingen an der Steige , first documented mention as "Giselingen"
1110 Göppingen , first documented mention
1115 Köthen (Anhalt) , first documented mention
1118 Stolberg (Rhineland) , first documented mention
1119 Apolda , first documented mention
1119 Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate
1119 Bad Berka , first documented mention
1120 Neustadt an der Orla , first documented mention
1121 Brandis , first documented mention
1121 Fellbach , first documented mention
1121 Wernigerode , first documented mention
1122 Plauen , first documented mention as "vicus plawe"
1122 Weida , first documented mention
1124/25 Usedom (city) , first documented mention ( Otto von Bamberg ), 1295/98 oppidum with city law ( Lübisches law )
1124/25 Gartz (Oder) , urk. First mentioned (Otto von Bamberg), 1249 conferred city rights ( Magdeburg law ) by Duke Barnim I.
1125 Sondershausen , first documented mention
1126 Wallenfels , first documented mention
1127 Wolgast , first documented mention as a hologast
1128 Memmingen , first documented mention
1128 Gützkow , first documented mention as Gozgaugia (Otto von Bamberg), between 1300 and 1353 city privilege according to Luebian law
1129 Altdorf near Nuremberg
1130 Bleicherode , first documented mention
1130 Peine , first documented mention
1131 Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
1131 Wipperfürth , first documented mention as "Weperevorthe"
1135 Bad Rodach , first documented mention
1135 Düsseldorf , first documented mention (granted city rights in 1288)
1135 Gräfrath , first documented mention as "villa Greverode"
1135 Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate , first documentary mention
1135 Schkölen , first documented mention
1136 Aalen , first documented mention
1136 Crailsheim , first documented mention
1136 Tribsees , (or 1140), first documentary mention, 1285 city law ( Lübisches law ) by Rügen prince Wizlaw II.
1136 Lassan , first documented mention as terra Lesane , conferred city rights between 1264 and 1278 by the Pomeranian dukes
1137 Bad Liebenstein , first documented mention
1138 Marburg , first documentary mention (market place 1140, city 1222)
1139 Bensberg , first documented mention
1139 Meuselwitz , first documented mention
1142 Lichtenfels , first documented mention
1143 Chemnitz , first documented mention
1143 Kranichfeld , first documented mention
1144 Ziegenhain (Schwalmstadt) , first documented mention
1146 Ibbenbüren , first documented mention
1146 Kirchhain , first documented mention (town charter 1352)
1146 Plochingen , first documented mention as "Blochingen"
1147 Lehrte , first documented mention
1147 Lutherstadt Wittenberg
1148 Arendsee (Altmark)
1148 Offenburg , first documented mention
1150 Hanover , first documented mention as "vicus Hanovere"
First mentioned in 1150 Lübben (Spreewald)
around 1150 Lennep , first documented mention
1150 Lüttringhausen , first documented mention
1150 Rendsburg , first documented mention
around 1150 Wermelskirchen , first documented mention as "Werenboldeskirken"
1151 Stadtsteinach , first documented mention
1153 Besigheim , first documented mention
1155 herrings / helmets , first documented mention
1155 Sindelfingen , first documented mention as "Sindelvinga" (city founded in 1263)
1156 Cottbus
1157 Bernau in the Black Forest , first documented mention
1157 Monheim am Rhein , first documented mention
1158 Munich , first documented mention as "forum apud Munichen" in the Augsburg Schied
1158 Lüchow (Wendland) first documented mention
1159 Barth , urk. First mentioned as provincia Barta , conferred city rights in 1255 ( Luebian law ) by Rügen prince Jaromar II.
1160 Weißenhorn , first documented mention as "villa Wizzenhorn"
1162 Worbis , first documented mention
1162 Homberg (Efze) , first documented mention
1164 Dahme / Mark
1168 Opladen , first documented mention as "Upladhin"
1168 Garz / Rügen , first documented mention as Charenza ( Saxo Grammaticus ), the oldest city in Rügen
1170 Ebersbach an der Fils , first documented mention, town census 1975
1170 Loitz , first documented mention as Losice , 1242 city (civitates) with Luebian law by Detlef von Gadebusch
1173 Aue , first documented mention
around 1173 Remscheid , first documented mention
1174 Wittenberg , first documented mention
1175 Altentreptow , urk. First mentioned as Trypethowe , civitas 1245, city law ( Lübisches law ) 1282
1177 Kröpelin , first documented mention as "Crapelin"
1177 Pasewalk , first documented tradition as Pozdewolk , conferred city rights around 1276
1178 Dargun , urk. First mentioned as Rokitnitze , 1625 market settlement with guild system , 1938 town charter
1179 Neumark , first documented mention
1179 Furtwangen in the Black Forest , first documented mention
1180 Burscheid , first documented mention as "Bursceit"
1180 Eisenach , first documented mention
1182 Jena , first documented mention
1184 Gütersloh, first documented mention of the Bishop of Osnabrück
1185 Freiberg
1185 Lippstadt
1185 Nossen , first documented mention as the manor of the Knights of Nuzzin
1187 Teuschnitz , first documented mention
1188 Dahlen , first documented mention
1188 Mölln , first documentary mention
1188 Wolfenbüttel , first documented mention as "Wulferesbutle"
1190 Gardelegen , first documented mention
1191 Alsdorf
1194 Bayreuth , first documented mention
1196 Gifhorn , first documented mention in the property register of the Braunschweiger Stift St. Cyriakus
1196 Heidelberg , first documented mention
1197 Spandau , first documented mention
1198 Ebeleben , first documented mention
1198 Langewiesen , first documented mention
1199 Königsee , first documented mention

Awarded city rights

The following places were granted city rights in the 12th century:

around 1120 Erfurt (documents speak of "citizens" for the first time)
around 1120 Freiburg im Breisgau (by the dukes of Zähringen)
1135 Mühlhausen / Thuringia
1144 Naumburg (Saale)
1153 Bopfingen
1157 Bautzen - Granting of individual city rights - uncertain whether full city rights have already been granted - this at the latest since 1213 (gradual granting of city rights)
1158 Schkölen
1160 Stendal
1160 Lübeck receives Soest town charter (first mentioned in 1076)
1161 Aschaffenburg
1162 Schwäbisch Gmünd , first recorded mention as a town, "oldest Staufer town"
1165 Leipzig
1166 Aachen
around 1170 Siegen referred to as civitas (first mentioned in 1079, Soest town charter 1303)
around 1170 Münster - official granting of city rights
around 1170 Herford
1175 Munich
1180 Saalfeld / Saale
1180 Staßfurt
1185 Weissenfels
1186 Vacha
1188 Korbach receives Soest town charter
1190 Neuss
1192 Ettlingen
1193 Donauwörth 1193 by Emperor Heinrich VI. raised to the city
1194 Sangerhausen
in the 12th century Gotha