Definition of Reichsstand. Meaning of Reichsstand. Synonyms of Reichsstand

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Definition of Reichsstand

Reichsstand
Reichsstand Reichs"stand` (r?ks"st?t`), n. [G.] A free city of the former German empire.

Meaning of Reichsstand from wikipedia

- An Imperial State or Imperial Estate (Latin: Status Imperii; German: Reichsstand, plural: Reichsstände) was a part of the Holy Roman Empire with representation...
- North German Confederation and in Germany until 1945. Imperial Estate (Reichsstand, plural Reichsstände): an entity in the Holy Roman Empire with a vote...
- called a Flickenteppich ("patchwork ****"). An entity was considered a Reichsstand (imperial estate) if, according to feudal law, it had no authority above...
- German princely law that members of all princely families which held Reichsstand status therein were required to contract ebenbürtig in order to transmit...
- the Fürstenrat's criteria for voting membership as an Imperial estate (Reichsstand), but whose family's right to vote therein was recognised by the Emperor...
- standing Imperial Army to defend the Reich, to which each imperial estate (Reichsstand) would have had to send troops. It also mandated the common penny (Reichspfennig)...
- Erörterung der Frage: Wann und wie eine Curatelanordnung über einen deutschen Reichsstand Statt habe? 1795. Mitteilungen aus der lippischen Geschichte und Landeskunde...
- Imperial immediacy, made of his chief land holding an Imperial estate (Reichsstand) and conferred upon him and his family the status of Landeshoheit, i...
- Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II declared the abbots members of the Reichsstand, or imperial estate, and granted the abbot the title of duke. In 1289...
- German Employers' ****ociations to form the Reich Industry Group (de: Reichsstand der Deutschen Industrie). This body was responsible for the representation...