Imperial City of Gelnhausen

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The Imperial City of Gelnhausen was a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire in present-day Hesse, Germany, historically notable as a medieval trading center and imperial residence.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Free Imperial City
former city-state
country Holy Roman Empire
currentLocation Germany
surface form: Federal Republic of Germany

Main-Kinzig-Kreis
state of Hesse
economy crafts and guilds
long-distance trade
foundedBy Frederick I Barbarossa
founder Frederick I Barbarossa
governmentForm free imperial city government
hasBuilding Imperial Palace of Gelnhausen
hasCapital Gelnhausen
hasCityRight fortification rights
market rights
toll rights
hasLandmark Imperial Palace of Gelnhausen
surface form: Kaiserpfalz Gelnhausen
hasLanguage German
hasPrivilege imperial immediacy
historicalFunction imperial residence
medieval trading center
historicalRegion Franconia
laterReligion Lutheranism
locatedIn Germany
present-day Hesse
locatedOn Kinzig
surface form: Kinzig River
namedAfter Gelnhausen
partOf Reichsstädte (Free Imperial Cities)
Upper Rhenish Circle
politicalEntityType imperial estate
politicalStatus imperial immediacy
religion Roman Catholicism
representedIn Imperial Diet
sovereign Holy Roman Emperor
status lost imperial immediacy in the early modern period
strategicLocation on trade routes between Frankfurt and Leipzig
on trade routes between Frankfurt and Nuremberg
successorTerritory Electorate of Hesse
Landgraviate of Hesse
timePeriod Middle Ages
early modern period
usedAs imperial assembly site
place of imperial diets

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Upper Rhenish Circle includesTerritory Imperial City of Gelnhausen
Evangelical Union hasMember Imperial City of Gelnhausen
this entity surface form: Free Imperial City of Gelnhausen