List of German city foundations / 14. century

First documentary mention

The following places, which later became cities, were founded in the 14th century or first mentioned in a document:

1301 Bergneustadt , first documented mention
1301 Spremberg , first documented mention
1302 Vetschau / Spreewald , first documentary mention, town charter 1543
1303 Gefell , first documented mention
1306 Neugersdorf , urk. First mentioned, municipal law 1924, since 2011 the unified city of Ebersbach-Neugersdorf
1315 Lübbenau / Spreewald , first documented mention as a place, town charter 1496
1316 Bad Freienwalde (Oder)
1317 Ruhland , document. First mentioned as a Rulant , notarized as a town in 1397 by King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia
1318 Suhl , first documented mention
1320 Lucka , first documented mention
1322 Schwarzenbach an der Saale , first documented mention
1324 Bad Elster , first documented mention
1325 Zeulenroda , first documented mention
1326 Leutenberg , first documented mention
1327 Rosenthal (Hesse) , founded by the Archbishop of Mainz (first documented mention only in 1340)
1331 Auma , first documented mention
1337 Lichtenberg (Upper Franconia) , first documented mention
1339 Ehrenfriedersdorf , first documented mention
1343 Naila , first documented mention
1343 Rappenau , first documented mention
1344 Orlamünde , first documented mention
1346 Flöha , first documented mention
1346 Schirgiswalde , urk. First mentioned, city charter by Emperor Leopold I in 1665
1349 Camburg , first documented mention
1349 Radebeul , first documented mention
1349 Großröhrsdorf , urk. First mentioned as Grozen-Rudigerstorf , conferred city rights on October 11, 1924
1353 Böhlen , first documented mention
1353 Greußen , first documented mention
1355 Ruhla , first documented mention
1356 Vohwinkel , first documented mention
1357 Seifhennersdorf , urk. First mentioned, 1974 town charter for the former largest industrial village in the GDR
1360 Meppen
1361 Meerane , first documented mention
1363 Bad Gottleuba , first documented mention
1364 Bad Köstritz , first documented mention
1367 Selbitz , first documented mention
1370 Oberweißbach / Thür. Forest , first documentary mention
1374 Brück
1375 Hennigsdorf
1376 Schirgiswalde , urk. First mentioned, 1665 town charter
1377 Wustrow (Wendland) , first documented mention
1378 Burgstädt , first documented mention
1381 Ranis , first documented mention
1381 Geyer , first documented mention
1384 Bad Wilsnack , first documented mention
1388 Schwarzenbach am Wald , first documented mention
1389 Freudenberg (Siegerland) , first documented mention
1393 Ottweiler , first documented mention
1397 Hirschberg , first documented mention
1399 Großbreitenbach , first documented mention

Awarded city rights

The following cities received city rights in the 14th century:

around 1300 Sondershausen
around 1300 Neckarsulm
1300 Lichtenau (Baden)
1300 Waldkirch
1300 Wittenberge
1301 Spremberg
1302 Geisa
1302 Euskirchen
1303 Siegen receives Soest town charter (already known as civitas around 1170 )
1303 Goerlitz
1304 Bad Liebenwerda (first referred to as civitas , rights older)
1304 Ronneburg
1305 Bad Salzungen
1305 Bräunlingen
1306 Krautheim
1308 Wasungen
1309 Spangenberg (already known as civitas in 1261 )
1310 Berga / Elster
1310 Holten
1311 Grevenbroich
1311 Olpe receives Soest town charter
1313 Saalburg
1313 Weikersheim
1313 Weismain
1314 Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
1314 Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate
1316 Neustadt near Coburg
1317 Potsdam
1317 Römhild
1317 Themar
1317 Will , incorporated 799 monastery founded by Liudger, 1929 to Essen
1318 Fürstenberg / Havel
1319 Weilheim an der Teck
around 1320 Linz on the Rhine
1320 Lucka
1320 Wiehe
1321 Neuötting
1321 Saarbrücken
1322 Mülheim am Rhein ( incorporated into Cologne in 1914 )
1323 Artern / Unstrut
1323 Bad Blankenburg
1323 ice field
1324 Hildburghausen
1324 Poessneck
1325 Neustadt an der Orla
1326 Bleicherode
1326 Erkelenz (first mentioned in 966)
1326 Kupferberg
1326 Leutenberg
1326 Neumark
1326 Oberkirch (Baden)
1326 Renchen
1326 Rudolstadt
1326 Stadtlengsfeld
1327 pegs / helmets
1328 Triptis
1328 Ziegenrück
1329 Schmoelln
1330 Ilshofen
1330 Waldenburg
1331 Auma
1331 Buttstädt
1331 Coburg
1332 Gau-Algesheim (2nd award 1355 with Höchst am Main , first mentioned in 766)
1332 Eltville on the Rhine
1332 Schweinsberg ( incorporated into Stadtallendorf in 1972 )
1333 Bad Wurzach
1333 Kahla
1333 Stadtroda
1333 Treffurt
1334 Heubach
1336 Finsterwalde
1337 Lichtenberg (Upper Franconia)
1338 Crailsheim
1338 Philippsburg , under the then name Udenheim
1339 Aalen
1339 Münsingen
1339 Rendsburg
1340 Bad Mergentheim
1340 Bad Tennstedt
1340 Sandersleben (Anhalt)
1340 Hörde
1341 Ilmenau
1343 Dornburg
1344 Orlamünde
1345 Plaue
1345 Oldenburg (Oldb)
1347 Aichach
1348 Abensberg
1348 Ohrdruf
1348 Weimar
1349 Camburg
1349 Creglingen
1349 Sonneberg
1350 Blankenhain
1350 Sömmerda
1351 Neuenstein
1352 Kirchhain , (first mentioned in 1146)
1353 Bad Sulza
1353 Greußen
1354 Rheindahlen
1355 Höchst am Main , (first mentioned in 790, market law 1356)
1356 Niedernhall
1356 Wiesensteig
1357 Cottbus
1357 Leba , (first mentioned in 1282)
1359 Greiz
1359 Betzenstein
1360 Meppen
1361 Bischofswerda
1362 Bad Rodach
1362 Schalkau
1363 Waldenbuch
1364 Elsterwerda
1364 Mönchengladbach
1364 Tirschenreuth
1365 Nieder-Florstadt
1365 Königsee
1367 Niederstetten
1367 Prichsenstadt , city charter (first mentioned in 1258)
1368 Dransfeld
1370 Allendorf (Lumda)
1370 Siebenlehn
1372 Fridingen on the Danube
1373 Krefeld , first mentioned in 1105, awarded by Emperor Karl IV.
1374 Adelsheim
1374 Solingen
1381 Ranis
1382 Mainbernheim , city charter (first mentioned in 889 )
1383 Walsrode
1387 Altdorf near Nuremberg
1390 Teuschnitz
1392 Koelleda
1394 Heldburg
1394 Ummerstadt
1397 Hirschberg
1398 Merkendorf
in the 14th century: Stadtsteinach