Strasbourg

Strasbourg was a Free Imperial City on the Ill near the Rhine. Its citizens defeated the bishop at Hausbergen in 1262; a guild revolution in 1332 gave the crafts a share in government, which they retained in 1337.

In 1349 Jews were burned in Strasbourg during the Black Death pogrom. The city became a center of printing and embraced the Reformation; in 1605 it produced the first printed newspaper. In 1681 Louis XIV's armies annexed Strasbourg without a siege.