Ravensburg

Ravensburg is a town in Upper Swabia in Southern Germany, capital of the district of Ravensburg, Baden-Wurttemberg. Ravensburg become first cited in 1088. In the Middle Ages, it became an Imperial Free City and an important trading centre. The "Great Ravensburg Trading Society" owned shops and buying and selling agencies throughout Europe. The historic city centre remains very a good deal intact, together with 3 city gates and over 10 towers of the medieval fortification. "The all-white Mehlsack is a tower marking the Altstadt’s southern edge. A steep staircase leads as much as the Veitsburg, a quaint baroque citadel". The town's maximum popular competition is the "Rutenfest" in mid year. Ravensburg became first mentioned in writing in 1088.

It was based through the Welfs, a Frankish dynasty in Swabia who have become later Dukes of Bavaria and Saxony and who made the castle of Ravensburg their ancestral seat. By a settlement of inheritance, in 1191 the Hohenstaufen Frederick Barbarossa obtained the possession of Ravensburg from Welf VI, Duke of Spoleto and uncle of each Frederick Barbarossa and Henry the Lion. With the demise of Conradin 1268 in Naples the Hohenstaufen line have become extinct. Their former estates became imperial belongings of the Holy Roman Empire. Like many different cities in Swabia, at the cease of the 13^th century Ravensburg have become an Imperial Free City in 1276.