Polity Imperial City of Wipperfuerth

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Was a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment

  • January 1218: Between 1217 and 1222 Wipperfürth received privileges (tax exemptions) from Archbishop Engelbert I of Cologne and after 1225 city rights from Heinrich von Limburg, Count von Berg.

Chronology

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Disestablishment

  • January 1379: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire in the XIV century.

Selected Sources

  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 30-31