Tauberbischofsheim

Bischofsheim lies on the Tauber in Franconia. The archbishops of Mainz received it as a fief in 1237, and it became a town around 1240. Walls and an archiepiscopal castle were begun about 1275. In 1346 Bischofsheim joined eight other towns under Mainz in a league recognised by Archbishop Henry III.

After the towns took part in the Peasants' War, Archbishop Albert dissolved their league in 1527 and Bischofsheim lost its self-government. Swedish troops occupied it from 1631 to 1635 during the Thirty Years' War. Franciscan friars, who had settled in the town in 1629, later built a church and founded a Latin school in 1688. Mainz's long rule ended in 1803 with the secularisation of its territories, when the town passed to Leiningen; three years later it became part of Baden.