Free City of Frankfurt (deu)

Free City of Frankfurt

Free City of Frankfurt ranks 1,183rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Schaerbeek, Bahía Blanca, and Southport. Memorable people born in Free City of Frankfurt include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Memorable people who died in Free City of Frankfurt include Arthur Schopenhauer, Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg, and Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach. Free City of Frankfurt has been the birth place of many businesspeople, and writers and the death place of many philosophers, and noblemen. Free City of Frankfurt is located in Germany.

Frankfurt was a major city of the Holy Roman Empire, being the seat of imperial elections since 885 and the city for imperial coronations from 1562 until 1792. Frankfurt was declared an Imperial Free City in 1372, making the city an entity of Imperial immediacy, meaning immediately subordinate to the Holy Roman Emperor and not to a regional ruler or a local nobleman. Read more on Wikipedia