Landau

Landau was a Palatine town on the Queich, made a Free Imperial Town by Rudolf I in 1291. The Bishop of Speyer seized it in 1324, and its liberties remained suspended under episcopal rule in 1337.

Maximilian I restored its rights in 1511. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 Landau passed to France, whose engineer Vauban fortified it. The town changed hands four times in the War of the Spanish Succession between 1702 and 1713. The Congress of Vienna assigned it to Bavaria in 1815.