Décapole
The Décapole (in German Zehnstädtebund or Dekapolis ) was the alliance of ten free cities Alsatian in a league founded in 1354 and dissolved in 1679.
The King of the Romans and future emperor Charles IV ratifies in 1354 the league joining together the cities of:
- Haguenau
- Colmar
- Wissembourg
- Turckheim
- Obernai
- Kaysersberg
- Rosheim
- Munster
- Sélestat
- Mulhouse → Pram starting from 1515
Haguenau becomes the chief town about it whereas Strasbourg, also free city of empire, remains apart from the league. Décapole has the role to support a co-operation between these cities, without to outline a political union at the regional level. Décapole has for the historians and the economists an extremely rare characteristic, which more is for the time: in addition to military alliance, the mutual aid is also financial in the event of bankruptcy .
The independence of the cities brings the dislocation of the Alsatian ground in a crowd of ecclesiastical and laic seigniories. In 1515, Mulhouse is withdrawn from Décapole to be combined with the cantons Suisse S. It is then replaced by Landau.
The league is strongly shaken by the Guerre Thirty Year old which devastates the area and which makes it possible the France to annex the majority of these continuations cities to the Traités of Westphalia in 1648. The signature of the Treated of Nimègue in 1679 mark end of Décapole.
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