Territories and estates not circled in the Holy Roman Empire

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Imperial district division at the beginning of the 16th century. The independent territories are shown in white.
The Holy Roman Empire at the time of the Hohenstaufen

In addition to the higher-level territorial units grouped together to form imperial circles , the Holy Roman Empire also had a large number of territories and estates that were not circled . These goods:

The territories in Imperial Italy

The countries of the Bohemian Crown

The countries of the Bohemian Crown

The Territories of the Old Confederation

In 1648 the Old Confederation became independent from the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in the Peace of Westphalia .

Thirteen sovereign places or cantons

The order corresponds to the traditional count. The year of joining the Confederation in brackets:

The Thirteen Ancient Places and the area they directly dominated in the 18th century

Facing places (allies)

After the year of the alliance, the alliance-concluding federal locations:

The associated places of the Old Confederation in the 18th century
  • Coa Abbey Saint Gall.svg Prince Abbey of St. Gallen (1451); Zurich, Lucerne, Glarus and Schwyz
  • Biel-coat of arms.svgCity of Biel (1353); Bern, Freiburg, Solothurn, nominally under the sovereignty of the Principality of Basel
  • Coa stgallen.svgCity of St. Gallen (1454); Zurich, Bern, Lucerne, Schwyz, Zug, Glarus
  • Valais-coat of arms old.svg Republic of Valais (1416/1417); Lucerne, Uri, Unterwalden; 1475 Bern; 1529 Schwyz, Zug, Freiburg; 1533 Solothurn
  • Coat of arms Muelhausen.svgCity of Mulhouse (1515/1586); XII places; 1586 only Zurich, Bern, Glarus, Schaffhausen, Basel
  • Geneva coat of arms matt.svgCity of Geneva (1519/36); Bern, Freiburg; 1558 only Bern; 1584 Zurich, Bern
  • Coat of arms Neuchâtel.svgPrincipality / County of Neuchâtel (1406/1529); Bern, Solothurn; 1495 Freiburg; 1501 Lucerne
  • Coat of arms Urseren.svgUrsern valley (1317-1410); Uri; 1410 to Uri
  • CHE Weggis COA.png Weggis (1332-1380); Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Lucerne; 1480 in Lucerne
  • Murten-coat of arms.svgCity of Murten (1353–1475); Bern; 1475 common rule
  • Payerne-coat of arms.svgCity of Payerne (1353-1536); Bern; 1536 in Bern
  • Gruyères-coat of arms.svgSaanen and Château-d'Oex valleys (1403–1555) (Hochgreyerz, part of the county of Gruyères); Bern; 1555 in Bern
  • Stemma Bellinzona.svg Bellenz (1407-1419); Uri, Obwalden; 1419–22 common rule
  • Coat of arms County Sargans.svg County Sargans (1437-1483); Schwyz, Glarus; 1483 Common rule
  • Coat of arms Sax.svgFreiherrschaft Sax-Forstegg (1458-1615); Zurich; 1615 in Zurich
  • Coat of arms Stein am Rhein.pngCity of Stein am Rhein (1459–1484) Zurich, Schaffhausen; 1484 in Zurich
  • Gruyères-coat of arms.svg County of Gruyères (Niedergreyerz) (1475–1555); 1555 in Freiburg
  • Werdenberger coat of arms1.svg Werdenberg county (1493–1517); Lucerne; 1517 in Glarus
  • Coat of arms Rottweil.svgCity of Rottweil (1519–1689); XIII places; after 1632 only Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Solothurn, Freiburg - as an imperial city and seat of the imperial court, it had a seat and vote in the Swabian Empire
  • Coat of arms of the diocese of Basel.svg Principality of Basel (1579–1735); Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Solothurn, Freiburg
  • Davos wappen.svg Wappen Gotteshausbund.svg Coat of arms gray bund Free State of the Three Leagues (1497/1499); Zurich, Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Glarus; 1600 Valais; 1602 Bern; after 1618 actually only Bern and Zurich. The three states were:

Common gentlemen (condominiums)

In addition to the year of the acquisition of rule, the ruling places are:

Map of the common lordships in the Old Confederation in the 18th century

Patrons (protectorates)

In addition to the year of the establishment of the protectorate, the places of protection (protectors) are indicated:

Individual local subjects of country locations and relatives

The following other territories

The Reichsland ( Reichsgut )

The imperial villages

In the 14th century there were more than 100 imperial villages, the number of which gradually decreased through pledging, donation and submission.

Location of the imperial villages on a map of the Holy Roman Empire in 1618

The following imperial villages in Alsace

The following further imperial villages

The following Reichsweiler in Alsace

The Reichstal

The territories of the Imperial Knights

Reichsritter1721.jpgMembers of the Imperial Knighthood

At the end of the Holy Roman Empire , the imperial knighthood comprised around 350 families with around 450,000 subjects.

HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE 1720.jpg Franconian knight circle

The Franconian Knight Circle was divided into the following 6 knight cantons by region:

Ritterkantonerhein.JPG Rhenish knight circle

The Rhenish Knight Circle was divided into the following 3 knight cantons according to regions:

Reichsritter1721.jpg Swabian knight circle

The Swabian Knight Circle was divided into the following 5 knight cantons by region:

Imperial knight as post office

See also

literature

  • Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .
  • Winfried Dotzauer: The German Imperial Circles (1383-1806) . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-07146-6 ( preview in the Google book search).
  • Martin Zeiller: Of the ten circles . (1660 and 1694).
  • Hans Hubert Hoffmann (Ed.): Sources on the constitutional organism of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation 1495-1815 . 1st edition. Scientific Book Society Darmstadt, 1976.
  • Johann Samuel Tromsdorff: Accurate new and old geography of all of Germany . Frankfurt 1711 ( preview in google book search).
  • Regions in the early modern period. Imperial circles in Germany, provinces in France, regions under Polish sovereignty. A comparison of their structures, functions and their importance . In: Peter Claus Hartmann (Hrsg.): Journal for historical research . Supplement 17. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-08078-5 .
  • Imperial Circle and Territory. The rulership of the rulership? Supraterritorial tendencies in politics, culture, economy and society. A comparison of southern German imperial circles . In: Wolfgang Wüst (Hrsg.): Publications of the Swabian Research Foundation at the Commission for Bavarian State History: Series 7, Augsburg contributions to the state history of Bavarian Swabia . tape 7 . Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7995-7508-1 .
  • Adolf Diehl: The free ones on Leutkircher Heide (= special print from,) Zeitschr (ift) f (ür) württ (Embergische) Landesgeschichte 1940, 357-431 S. Discussed by Karl Otto Müller. ZRG GA 62 (1942), 458
  • Hans Constantin Faußner: The power of disposal of the German king over secular imperial property in the high Middle Ages . In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . tape 29 , 1973, pp. 345-449 (on- line ).
  • Dietmar Flach: Reichsgut 751-1024 . Bonn 2008.
  • Dieter Hägermann : Reichsgut . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages . tape 7 , col. 620-622 .
  • Hartmut Hoffmann: The inalienability of crown rights in the Middle Ages . In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . tape 20 , 1964, pp. 389-474 (on- line ).
  • Ernst Schubert : King and Empire. Studies on the late medieval German constitutional history . Göttingen 1979.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Nadler: Hohenwaldeck, Herrschaft / Reichsgrafschaft . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
  2. ^ Catherine De Kegel-Schorer: The free ones on Leutkircher Heide. Origin, shape and erosion of an Upper German farmers' cooperative ( Memento of December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) ISBN 978-3-928471-50-3 , 384 pp.
  3. ^ Gerhard Köbler: Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. CH Beck, 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 373 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ^ Duchy of Swabia - GenWiki. In: wiki-de.genealogy.net. Retrieved January 13, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Gerhard Köbler: De Kegel-Schorer, Catherine, The Free on Leutkircher Heide. In: koeblergerhard.de. Retrieved January 13, 2015 .
  6. ↑ a b Reichsdörfer . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 16, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p.  734 .
  7. ↑ a b c d From the city to the imperial city. (No longer available online.) In: historisches-franken.de. April 9, 2004, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on January 13, 2015 .
  8. ↑ museum-gochsheim. (No longer available online.) In: historisches-franken.de. April 6, 2000, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on January 13, 2015 .
  9. ↑ State rule: Hirschberger Erbe. In: kaldorf.de. Retrieved January 13, 2015 .
  10. ↑ a b c d e f Jürgen Prell: Grafschaft. (No longer available online.) In: hirsperg-memoria.de. October 19, 2013, archived from the original on June 21, 2015 ; accessed on January 13, 2015 .
  11. ↑ a b c d e sovereignty, sphere of influence. In: kaldorf.de. August 1, 2020, accessed January 13, 2015 .