Imperial City of Wetzlar

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The Imperial City of Wetzlar was a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire, historically notable as a legal and administrative center that hosted the Empire’s highest court, the Reichskammergericht.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Free Imperial City
former city-state
capital Wetzlar
country Holy Roman Empire
dissolvedOrAbolished 1803
endTime 1803
followedBy Wetzlar
surface form: Wetzlar (Prussian city)
governmentType republic
hasHeritage medieval urban law
hasHighestCourtOf Holy Roman Empire
hasHistoricalEra Early modern period
Middle Ages
hasHistoricalFunction imperial estate with voting rights
seat of imperial justice
hasHistoricalRegion Kurpfalz
surface form: Rhenish Franconia
hasJurisdictionOver Reichskammergericht
hasLegalInstitution Imperial Chamber Court
hasLegalStatus immediate territory of the emperor
hasNotableBuilding Wetzlar Cathedral
hasNotablePerson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
hasOfficialLanguage German
hasPoliticalSystem oligarchic city council
hasRole administrative center
legal center
hasStatus imperial immediacy
hasTypeOfAutonomy territorial autonomy under emperor
hosted Reichskammergericht
languageUsedInAdministration Early New High German
locatedIn Germany
Hesse
Wetzlar
locatedOn Lahn
surface form: River Lahn
notableFor early legal career of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
partOf Holy Roman Empire
Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire
Upper Rhenish Circle
precededBy Imperial City of Wetzlar self-linksurface differs
surface form: Wetzlar (imperial fief under local lords)
religion Roman Catholicism
representedIn Imperial Diet
surface form: Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire
significantEvent Mediatization to Prussia
Relocation of Reichskammergericht to Wetzlar
startTime 1180
surrenderedTo Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
usedCurrency Gulden
Reichsthaler

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Upper Rhenish Circle includesTerritory Imperial City of Wetzlar
Imperial City of Wetzlar precededBy Imperial City of Wetzlar self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Wetzlar (imperial fief under local lords)
Evangelical Union hasMember Imperial City of Wetzlar
this entity surface form: Free Imperial City of Wetzlar