Nuremberg

Nuremberg was an imperial city on the Pegnitz in Franconia. Its 1219 charter established imperial immediacy; in 1337 Rappold von Külsheim held the royal office associated with the city.

The Golden Bull of 1356 required newly elected German kings to hold their first diet at Nuremberg, and from 1424 it housed the Imperial Regalia. The city accepted the Reformation in 1525. Wallenstein besieged it in 1632 during the Thirty Years' War, and its population nearly halved. Bavaria acquired the city in 1806.