Bad Mergentheim

Bad Mergentheim is a metropolis within the Main-Tauber-Kreis district inside the German nation of Baden-Wurttemberg. It has a populace of around 23,000. An formally identified spa metropolis for the reason that 1926, Bad Mergentheim is likewise called the headquarters of the Teutonic Order from 1526 until 1809. Mergentheim is noted in chronicles as early as 1058, as the residence of the own family of the counts of Hohenlohe. The brothers Andreas, Heinrich and Friedrich von Hohenlohe joined the Deutscher Orden in 1219 and gave their castles near Mergentheim to the order.

One become abandoned, the opposite have become the seat of the neighborhood Komtur of the order. Following the order's conquest of East Prussia and part of Livland inside the 1230s, in 1309 the Grand Master of the order moved to the Marienburg. In 1340 Mergentheim changed into provided city privileges. It unexpectedly have become the most crucial of the 11 commanderies of the Teutonic Order. The Deutschmeister, highest ranking member in the Holy Roman Empire moved his seat to Mergentheim in 1525 after his fortress at Hornberg/Neckar had been destroyed by means of peasants.