Speyer as central place of the Holy Roman Empire (1527-1689)

与现代国家不同，神圣罗马帝国没有首都地位的城市。但有几个中心城市，如里根斯堡，法兰克福，维也纳和施派尔。在16和17世纪，斯派尔比其他城市更多地展示了帝国作为一个地产组织的结构。自1527年帝国宫廷在施派尔定居以来，皇帝和皇室成员在帝国议会开会，并检查帝国宫廷。政治和法律以不同的方式相互作用。在新教城市施派尔有一个天主教主教区，它位于附近的新教普法尔茨和天主教美因茨的势力范围重叠。在最近发现的档案记录的基础上，该项目开始描述中央政治，宗教和司法职能。

Unlike modern states the Holy Roman Empire had no city in the status of a capital. But there were several central cities as Regensburg, Frankfurt am Main, Vienna and also Speyer. During the 16th and 17th century Speyer displays more than other cities the Empire`s structure as an organization of estates. Since 1527 the Imperial Chamber Court settled in Speyer, the Emperor and the imperial estates met there at the imperial diet and examined the Imperial Chamber Court. Politics and law interacted in different ways. In the protestant city of Speyer had a catholic episcopate and it was situated in the neighborhood of protestant Palatinate and catholic Mainz whose spheres of influence overlapped there. On the basic of recently discovered archive records the project is set out to describe the central political, confessional and judicial function.