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Wiesbaden, Imperial Free City of

Wiesbaden, Imperial Free City of

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1232 CE to 1806 CE

Wiesbaden, a city in central western Germany, is one of the oldest spa towns in Europe.

Its name translates to "meadow baths," making reference to the hot springs.

It is internationally famous for its architecture, climate (also called the "Nice of the North"), and its hot springs.

At one time, Wiesbaden boasts twenty-six hot springs.

Fourteen of the springs are still flowing today In 1232 Wiesbaden becomes a Reichsstadt, an imperial city, of the Holy Roman Empire

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Walram I, Count of Nassau, had received…

Walram I, Count of Nassau, had received the area around Wiesbaden as a fiefdom in the 1170s.

When Franconia fragmented in the early thirteenth century, Nassau had emerged as an independent state as part of the Holy Roman Empire.

Wiesbaden had in 1232 become a reichsstadt, an imperial city, of the Holy Roman Empire I.

However, the Archbishop of Mainz, Siegfried III, orders the city's destruction in 1242 during the war of Emperor Frederick II against the Pope.

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Aquae Mattiacae, the ancient settlement known as…

Aquae Mattiacae, the ancient settlement known as a spa in Roman times, had subsequently become the site of a Franconian palace, and the name Wisibada (“Meadow Spring”) first appeared in 829.

Made a free imperial city in 1241, Wiesbaden returns to the counts of Nassau in 1270.

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