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Memmingen (mĕm`ĭng-ən), city (1994 pop. 40,222), Bavaria, S Germany. Manufactures include metal products, textiles, electrical machinery, beer, and chemicals. It is also a rail junction. Historically a Swabian town, Memmingen was first mentioned in the early 12th cent. and became a free imperial city in 1286. The Twelve Articles of the Peasantry (1525) were drawn up there during the Peasants' War Peasants' War, 1524–26, rising of the German peasants and the poorer classes of the towns, particularly in Franconia, Swabia, and Thuringia. It was the climax of a series of local revolts that dated from the 15th cent. ..... Click the link for more information. . Memmingen passed to Bavaria in 1803. Parts of the city's 15th-century walls and gates remain. There are also two 15th-century Gothic churches, a 16th-century city hall, and the 16th-century Fugger House. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In Greater Swabia, the centres of radical-liberal activity were towns and villages with heavy Catholic majority such as Memmingen, Lindenberg, Gunzburg Immenstadt, Lindau, Constance, Sigmaringen, Stockach, Messkirch, Donaueschingen, Bonndorf, Wadshut, Breisach. Pfeifer Seil-und Hebetechnik, Dr Karl Lenz Strasse 66, 87700 Memmingen, Germany +49 8331 140 Fax: +49 8331 14294 In Memmingen in 1521 the "Have-nots" identified on tax registers amounted to 55 percent of the total population, and, according to one study, "Much of South Germany [late in the sixteenth century] had in fact become a land of paupers. |
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