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Free Imperial City of Kempten

Field	Value
native_name	Reichstadt Kempten im Allgäu
conventional_long_name	Imperial City of Kempten in the Allgäu
common_name	Kempten im Allgäu
era	Middle Ages
status	Free Imperial City
(State of the Holy Roman Empire)
empire	Holy Roman Empire
government_type	Republic
year_start	1289
year_end	1802/3
event_pre	City founded
date_pre	before 50 BC
event_start	City gained Imperial immediacy
event1	Abbey sold property within Imperial City
date_event1	1525
event2	City converted to Protestantism
date_event2	1527
event_end	Mediatised to Bavaria
event_post	Abbey united with city
date_post	1819
p1	Duchy of Franconia
s1	Electorate of Bavaria
flag_s1	Flag of Bavaria (lozengy).svg
image_map	De Merian Sueviae 144.jpg
image_map_caption	A view of Kempten in 1650
capital	Kempten im Allgäu

(State of the Holy Roman Empire) The Free Imperial City of Kempten was a Free Imperial City in the Swabian Circle.

History

In 1213, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II declared the abbots of Kempten Abbey members of the Imperial Diet and granted the abbot the right to bear the title of Duke, making the abbey the Imperial Ducal Abbey of Kempten.

In 1289, King Rudolf of Habsburg granted special privileges to the settlement in the river valley, making it an Imperial City. In 1525 the last property rights of the abbots in the Imperial City were sold in the so-called "Great Purchase", marking the start of the co-existence of two independent cities bearing the same name next to each other.

The Imperial City converted to Protestantism in direct opposition to the Catholic monastery in 1527, signing the Augsburg Confession.

During the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War (1632–33), the city was destroyed by imperial forces.

During the Napoleonic Wars the Imperial City came under Bavarian rule (1802–03). In 1819, the city was united with the properties of the Abbey into a single communal entity.

References

"Kempten". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012. Web. 20 Oct. 2012 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/314674/Kempten

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