Feuchtwangen

Feuchtwangen is a metropolis in Ansbach district in the administrative vicinity of Middle Franconia in Bavaria, Germany. In the year 2019 Feuchtwangen celebrated its 1200^th jubilee based totally mostly on the first point out of its Benedictine monastery. Feuchtwangen's origins can be traced once more to the Benedictine monastery, which changed into stated in a document in 818 or 819 as being pretty properly off. The state of affairs on the monastery become defined in 16 letters with the aid of the learned monk Froumund and the abbot Wigo inside the years 991 to 995. By no later than 1197, however, Feuchtwangen had end up a residence of secular canons.

The canons were not clergymen and lived of their non-public houses, however stated their canonical prayers together on the monastery church. Besides the monastery, there has been already, since the earliest times, a village. With the assist of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa came the popularity quo of a city someday among 1150 and 1178. In 1241, Feuchtwangen became an imperial free metropolis. From that factor forth, Feuchtwangen consisted of unbiased groups the free metropolis south of the street alongside Untere Torstrasse and Postgasse and the monastery lands to the north.