Bamberg

The Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg was a church state of the Holy Roman Empire in Franconia, ruled from Bamberg. In 1337 Bishop Leopold governed the imperial territory.

In the seventeenth century Bamberg saw witch trials, with mayor Johannes Junius among the victims. Swedish and Weimar troops occupied the bishopric until the 1634 victory at Nördlingen restored the bishops. In 1759 the bishops sold their Carinthian estates to the Habsburgs. Bavarian troops occupied the state in 1802, and it was annexed to Bavaria in 1803.