Dinkelsbühl

Dinkelsbühl was a town on the Wörnitz in the Holy Roman Empire. It had received the municipal rights of Ulm in 1305 and became a Free Imperial City in 1351.

Its walls were begun in 1372 and its Gothic minster of Saint George completed in 1499. Most citizens became Protestant around 1534; after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Catholics and Lutherans shared offices equally. The city passed to Bavaria in 1802, briefly to Prussia in 1804, and back to Bavaria in 1806.