1. Definition
The general or imperial Städtetag (Urban Diet) assembled for the first time at Frankfurt am Main as an assembly of delegates of all the free towns and free imperial cities in the Old Empire (Holy Roman Empire [of the German Nation]) to reach agreement on questions of imperial policy and negotiate a common course of action [6. 9]. In addition, Germany had Städtetage of individual leagues, regions, and Imperial Circles [9. 31–44, 74–82] with specific purposes. There is no evid…