Nördlingen

Nördlingen (" Norlingue" , in French) of Bavaria in the district of Donau-Laugh is a town, on the Romantic Route.

Located in the heart of the zone of Laugh, the old imperial free city of Nördlingen kept a medieval aspect almost completely preserved.

The historical old city is dominated by the " Daniel" , 90 height m Gothic bell-tower of the old Saint-Georges church. The church itself is one of most remarkable of this type in Germany of the south. A watcher - certainly the last - is still in service twenty-four hours out of twenty-four with the top of the tower of the " Daniel".

The zone of Ries itself is a single geological sector created by a meteorite approximately 15 million years ago.

History

Towards 90 before our era, a Roman camp with agglomeration (Vicus) is attested. It disappears towards 259/260 at the time of the conquest of the south of current Germany the Alamans. The name of this agglomeration was probably Septemiacum. This name appears in the Table of Peutinger (Tabula Peutingeriana). Roman Nördlingen is little known.

The Germanic settlement was done with the Life-VIIe centuries.

Nordilinga is mentioned for the first time in a document caroloingien of 898.

In 1215, Nördlingen becomes a free imperial city.

In 1219, the fair of the Pentecost, most important of High Germany lasts 10 days.

In 1529, it belongs to the Protestant minority to the Diète of Empire of Speyer. Protestantism develops to with it.

During the War Thirty Year old, Nördlingen is the place of two battles, in 1634 and 1645. The city loses half of its population and its economic importance.

1939 will have to be waited until so that the population finds its level of 1618, that is to say nearly 9000 inhabitants.

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