On the other hand, it is by orders of magnitude too small for the agriculture etc. But just taking her map as a hypothesis, there seems to be a lot of open (or at least not "developed" with housing) space on the "downhill" side of the Great East Road wich runs through Bree (amazingly, there seems to be no "bypass", so almost all traffic would have had to pass through two gates either way!), basically the south-west part. I took a look at Fonstad's map of Bree, and it is on a much larger scale than that of Hobbiton - for what that's worth, she had to make some assumptions to fill in blanks left by JRRT. That Corsican also established, by the Napoleonic Code, not just but also for cities some innovations that survive to our days.Ĭlick to expand.JRRT does not describe Bree much beyond the Prancing Pony, the gates and that Bill Ferny's house was near the east gate. Papal approval of the election was dispensed with in the early 16th century, and the guy from Corsica put an end to what was by then a sham in 1806. After 1440, every "Kaiser" was of the "House of Austria" aka the Habsburgs, and the two exceptions were related to the Habsburgs. Later things may have gotten more confusing. Apparently for a time up to the Thirty Years War, this included three Archbishops, a King, a Count, a Duke and a Margrave. The electors were called "Kurfürst", or as per English Wiki "Prince-elector". was an elective office (as was for a perhaps similar time the "German King"). I'm not sure for which span of time this is valid, but that "Holy Roman Emperor" etc.
But city walls were certainly one thing that were meant to keep the "grubbys" at bay. An injunction with widely varying levels of effectiveness, depending on widely varying reasons. One important attribute of this status (I believe only conferred to larger cities like our neighboring Nürnberg) was that they were under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor, and all of those greedy regional potentates (dukes, counts, barons, …) hat to keep their grubby mitts off them. Well, during the confusingly named "Holy Roman Empire" (later multiplying the confusion by the suffix "of the German Nation"), cities were often granted their city status by the current emperor ("Kaiser", another misspelling of the Roman "Caesar" whose other prominent exemplar is the Russian "Czar", or "Tsar", German "Zar"). This does seem to be of some relevance, as when there were divergent numbers coming out two different statistical sources, one above and one below 500 000, there was quite a quarrel about who was right, as it had financial consequences.īut then the city where I live, eighth and smallest of Bavaria's large cities, would be a world metropolis in terms of population at the end of the Third Age! 😵 Then there's our southern neighbor, Nürnberg, Bavaria's second largest city, which did some hovering around the 500 000 mark. That's past history, as the population is now officially over 110 000. The next definitive threshold is 100 000, called "large city", which the city I live in hovered around for a while, switching "first place" with another city in a different state in the ranking of Germany's "smallest large city".
#Village called subree tv
I'm not sure if this has any organisational relevance, but the TV teletext also list the outcomes of elections in " cities of over 10 000 inhabitants" for mayor. This was in what was called "Bavaria's second-smallest city with 1050 inhabitants." Which makes me guess that 1000 inhabitants is the threshold for a community to call itself a city (with some other parameters like clearly defined city limits 10 hamlets of 100 inhabitants each, scattered over an area, would very probably not qualify as a city). The tidbit involves the election as mayor in one runoff which was won by a 19-year-old law student. If no single candidate receives over 50% of the vote for mayor or county equivalent, there is a runoff between the two leading candidates two weeks later, which was yesterday (though for the first time in history voting was only possible by snail mail). An interesting tidbit (of the seriously trivial category) is provided by the local elections in Bavaria, which were held on 15 March.
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