| Description | Aalen is a former Free Imperial City in Baden-Wurttemberg. umerous remains of early civilization have been found in the area. Tools made of flint and traces of Mesolithic human settlement dated between the 8th and 5th millennium BC. After abandoning the Alblimes around 150 AD, Aalen’s territory became part of the Roman Empire, in direct vicinity of the then newly-erected Rhaetian Limes. Around 260 AD, the Romans gave up the fort as they withdrew their presence in unoccupied Germania back to the Rhine and Danube rivers, and the Alamanni took over the region but there is no evidence of settlement at this site until the 7th century. The first mention of Aalen was in 839, when emperor Louis the Pious reportedly permitted the Fulda monastery to exchange land with the Hammerstadt village. During the war against Württemberg, Emperor Charles IV took the town without a fight after a siege. On 3 December 1360, he declared Aalen an Imperial City, that is, a city or town responsible only to th |
