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Free Imperial City of Rosheim
Origins
Rosheim, at the foot of the Vosges west of Strasbourg, was an imperial possession under the Hohenstaufen. The town was walled in the 13th century and its rights as a free imperial city were confirmed around 1303. In 1354 it joined the Decapolis, the alliance of ten Alsatian imperial cities under the imperial bailiff at Haguenau.
Rule and society
A council of burghers governed this small community of vintners, farmers and craftsmen. Its church of Saints Peter and Paul, built in the 12th century of yellow sandstone, is one of the finest Romanesque buildings in Alsace, and the town also preserves a stone house of the same age. Rosheim remained Catholic.
Decline and legacy
The town suffered heavily in the Thirty Years' War. After 1648 the Decapolis came under French protection, and the Treaty of Nijmegen of 1679 confirmed its incorporation into the Kingdom of France. It is now a small town in the Bas-Rhin department.
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- Free Imperial City of Rosheim was part of Decapolis1354 CE – 1679 CE
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Free Imperial City of Rosheim. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/free-imperial-city-of-rosheim
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