Memmingen

Memmingen is a town in the Bavarian administrative region Swabia in Germany. The district-free town is located at the border to Baden-W?rttemberg, at the river Iller.

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At the place of Memmingen, probably even in the time of the Romans there was a small military town, maybe called cassiliacum. In the 5th century an Alemanic settlement was established, in the 7th century a palace of the Franks' king.

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Memmingen was connected to Bohemia, Austria and Munich trough the salt road to Lindau. Another important road going through Memmingen was the Italian road from Northern Germany to Switzerland and Italy. Both roads helped Memmingen to earn importance as trading place. In the middle ages, the place was known as Mammingin; in 1158 the Welfian Duke Welf VI founded the town Memmingen. In 1286 it became a free town of the Empire, only responsible to the Kaiser.

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Swabia: Swabia (German: Schwaben) is both a historic and linguistic (see Swabian German) region in Germany. Swabia consists largely of the present-day state of Baden-W?rttemberg, as well as the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia. In the Middle Ages, Vorarlberg, the modern principality of Liechten...