Weißenburg

Weißenburg was a Free Imperial City in the Franconian Jura south of Nuremberg. It gained that status in 1296 and governed itself for five centuries.

Its council met in a Gothic town hall completed in 1476. During the Reformation Weißenburg followed Nuremberg to the Protestant side; religious wars brought heavy losses before its rights were restored in the peace settlement. It lost independence in 1802 and passed to Bavaria in 1806.