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|common_name =        <!--Common name in English (used for wikilinks, captions, and to produce a default iso3166 code)--> Flunderberg
|common_name =        <!--Common name in English (used for wikilinks, captions, and to produce a default iso3166 code)--> Flunderberg
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|image_flag =        <!--e.g. Flag of country.svg-->GrueneWaleVlaag.png
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|alt_flag =          <!--alt text for flag (text shown when pointer hovers over flag)-->Flag of the Free City of Flunderberg
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|image_coat =        <!--e.g. Coat of arms of country.svg--> FlunderbergDolphinAlt.png
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|alt_coat =          <!--alt text for coat of arms-->Coat of Arms of the Free City of Flunderberg
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|sovereignty_type =  <!--Brief description of country/territory's status ("Independence [from...]", "Autonomous province [of...]", etc)--> Constituent State of [[Dolchland]]
|sovereignty_type =  <!--Brief description of country/territory's status ("Independence [from...]", "Autonomous province [of...]", etc)--> Constituent State of [[Dolchland]]
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|established_event1 = <!--Flunderberg Founded--> Flunderberg Founded 997
|established_event1 = <!--Flunderberg Founded--> Founded 997
|established_date1 =  <!--Date of first key event--> Granted Free Charter 1314
|established_date1 =  <!--Date of first key event--> Granted Free Charter 1314
|established_event2 = <!--Second key event--> Office of Burgermeister Meisterburger Created 1330
|established_event2 = <!--Second key event--> Burgermeister Meisterburger Created 1330
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|patron_saint =      <!--Use patron_saints for multiple--> St. Andrew the Apostle
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'''Flunderberg''', officially '''The Free City of Flunderberg''' is a constituent semi-independent state of Dolchland located on the southwestern coast. Flunderberg, like other Free Cities of Dolchland, enjoys equal status under the law as the other states of Dolchland do, despite consisting only of a large city and its surrounding smaller communities. Flunderberg, however, is the largest of the Free Cities in land area, and incorporates the smaller communities of Rattelsdorf, Hochplatz and Grunplatz, which are administered identically to Flunderberg proper. The city is ruled by a council of 14 Burghers, headed by a president, the Burgermeister Meisterburger. This office's unusual name reflects its origin: the original 14 councilors could not agree on the title of Town Mayor or Master Citizen, and so in the absence of a tiebreaking vote the two proposals were conjoined into the unusual title used by the city's ruler ever since.
'''Flunderberg''', officially '''The Free City of Flunderberg''' is a constituent semi-independent state of Dolchland located on the southwestern coast. Flunderberg, like other Free Cities of Dolchland, enjoys equal status under the law as the other states of Dolchland do, despite consisting only of a large city and its surrounding smaller communities. Flunderberg, however, is the largest of the Free Cities in land area, and incorporates the smaller communities of Rattelsdorf, Hochplatz and Grunplatz, which are administered identically to Flunderberg proper. The city is ruled by a council of 14 Burghers, headed by a president, the Burgermeister Meisterburger. This office's unusual name reflects its origin: the original 14 councilors could not agree on the title of Town Mayor or Master Citizen, and so in the absence of a tiebreaking vote the two proposals were conjoined into the unusual title used by the city's ruler ever since.
==History==
According to archaeological evidence, settlement in the area of the modern city of Flunderberg may have begun as early as the 10th century BCE, although the city itself only appears in tax rolls by the name of Flunderberg in the year 997 CE. An apocryphal story of the city's founding relates that its founder, disgruntled serf Jörg Sprave, absconded from his lord's manor to a rocky, windswept plateau by the sea. Sprave created a mock city of paper, mud and wood and resided within it for a year and a day, surviving by fishing for flounder in the shallow waters of the nearby bay, and when this time had passed he was able to claim the ancient right of freedom from serfdom as a city resident. Whatever the case may be, Flunderberg from its founding has remained a state dominated by the urban bourgeois and the guilds of artisan freemen, rather than an aristocracy, as is typical of other [[states of Dolchland]]. In 1314, the city was granted Free Charter and brought into the fold as an electorate in its own right; this charter was given by Emperor Klaus Wurvenia in return for the burghers of the town extending him massive lines of credit for his wars against the Cerisers.
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Latest revision as of 10:37, 30 January 2024

Free City of Flunderberg
Freistadt Flunderberg (Alemannisch)
Flag of the Free City of Flunderberg
Flag
Coat of Arms of the Free City of Flunderberg
Coat of arms
LocationFlunderberg within Dolchland.
CapitalFlunderberg
Official languagesAlemannisch
Demonym(s)Flunderberger
Government
LegislatureCouncil of Burghers
Constituent State of Dolchland
• Founded 997
Granted Free Charter 1314
Population
• Estimate
328,881
Driving sideleft

Flunderberg, officially The Free City of Flunderberg is a constituent semi-independent state of Dolchland located on the southwestern coast. Flunderberg, like other Free Cities of Dolchland, enjoys equal status under the law as the other states of Dolchland do, despite consisting only of a large city and its surrounding smaller communities. Flunderberg, however, is the largest of the Free Cities in land area, and incorporates the smaller communities of Rattelsdorf, Hochplatz and Grunplatz, which are administered identically to Flunderberg proper. The city is ruled by a council of 14 Burghers, headed by a president, the Burgermeister Meisterburger. This office's unusual name reflects its origin: the original 14 councilors could not agree on the title of Town Mayor or Master Citizen, and so in the absence of a tiebreaking vote the two proposals were conjoined into the unusual title used by the city's ruler ever since.

History

According to archaeological evidence, settlement in the area of the modern city of Flunderberg may have begun as early as the 10th century BCE, although the city itself only appears in tax rolls by the name of Flunderberg in the year 997 CE. An apocryphal story of the city's founding relates that its founder, disgruntled serf Jörg Sprave, absconded from his lord's manor to a rocky, windswept plateau by the sea. Sprave created a mock city of paper, mud and wood and resided within it for a year and a day, surviving by fishing for flounder in the shallow waters of the nearby bay, and when this time had passed he was able to claim the ancient right of freedom from serfdom as a city resident. Whatever the case may be, Flunderberg from its founding has remained a state dominated by the urban bourgeois and the guilds of artisan freemen, rather than an aristocracy, as is typical of other states of Dolchland. In 1314, the city was granted Free Charter and brought into the fold as an electorate in its own right; this charter was given by Emperor Klaus Wurvenia in return for the burghers of the town extending him massive lines of credit for his wars against the Cerisers.

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