News of the Research Working Group

The Imperial City during the Peasants’ War

Mühlhausen|Thüringen, 12th February – 14th February 2024 Eleventh academic conference of the Mühlhausen-based Working Group “History of the Free Imperial Cities”, in cooperation with the Friedrich Christian Lesser Foundation and the Historical Society of Mühlhausen (Mühlhäuser Geschichts- und Denkmalpflegeverein e. V.) Conception In 1962, the prominent church historian Bernd Moeller (1931–2020) published a small study on… View Article

Small Imperial Cities

Mühlhausen|Thüringen, 20th February – 22th February 2023 Tenth academic conference of the Mühlhausen-based Working Group “History of the Free Imperial Cities”, in cooperation with the Friedrich Christian Lesser Foundation and the Historical Society of Mühlhausen (Mühlhäuser Geschichts- und Denkmalpflegeverein e. V.) Conception The tenth conference of the Mühlhausen-based Working Group “History of the Free Imperial… View Article

Imperial Cities and Violence

Mühlhausen|Thüringen, 24th February – 26th February 2020 Eighth academic conference of the Mühlhausen-based Working Group “History of the Free Imperial Cities”, in cooperation with the Friedrich Christian Lesser Foundation and the Historical Society of Mühlhausen (Mühlhäuser Geschichts- und Denkmalpflegeverein e. V.) Conception Confined living spaces, diverging economic interests, and the struggle for power and status… View Article

Imperial Cities and Agriculture

Mühlhausen|Thüringen, March 4 to March 6, 2019 Seventh academic conference of the Mühlhausen-based Working Group “History of the Free Imperial Cities”, in cooperation with the Friedrich Christian Lesser Foundation and the Historical Society of Mühlhausen (Mühlhäuser Geschichts- und Denkmalpflegeverein e. V.) Conception Until well into modern times agriculture was the main employment sector for the working population…. View Article

Protagonists of Imperial Cities

Mühlhausen|Thüringen, 28th February – 1st March 2022 Ninth academic conference of the Mühlhausen-based Working Group “History of the Free Imperial Cities”, in cooperation with the Friedrich Christian Lesser Foundation and the Historical Society of Mühlhausen (Mühlhäuser Geschichts- und Denkmalpflegeverein e. V.) Outline The ninth conference of the Working Group is dedicated to the protagonists of… View Article