Memmingen

Memmingen was a free imperial city in Upper Swabia, enriched by trade along the salt road to Lindau. It had held imperial city status since 1286, including in 1337.

Under the preacher Christoph Schappeler the city embraced the Reformation. In 1525 peasants gathered there issued the Twelve Articles, with 25,000 copies printed in two months. Wallenstein made Memmingen his headquarters in 1630, and an imperial siege forced its surrender in 1647. In 1802 the city lost its imperial immediacy and passed to Bavaria.