Konstanz

Konstanz was a Free Imperial City where the Rhine left Lake Constance. Its bridge and linen trade brought wealth, and it was also the seat of a large bishopric.

The Council of Constance elected Martin V and ended the Western Schism in 1414–1418; Jan Hus was burned there in 1415. Switzerland seized its Thurgau hinterland in 1460. After the city embraced the Reformation, Charles V placed it under the imperial ban and gave it to Austria in 1548. Konstanz passed to Baden in 1806, and its bishopric was dissolved in 1821.