Editing Capital of Germany (section)

=== Pre-1871 ===

Prior to 1871, Germany was not a unified [[nation-state]], and had no capital city. The medieval German [[Holy Roman Empire]] used to have [[Aachen]] as its preferred seat of government during [[Charlemagne]]'s reign, and until 1531 it was the place where 31 Holy Roman Emperors were crowned Kings of the Germans. The coronation later moved to [[Frankfurt]]. However, after Charlemagne, none of the subsequent Holy Roman Emperors moved to Aachen or Frankfurt, instead retaining their own original constituent kingdom or principality as base or moving into temporary Royal palaces dotted around the confederate realm known as [[Kaiserpfalz]]. The last imperial ruling house (the [[Habsburgs]]) had [[Vienna]] as its permanent seat of government.

After the [[Congress of Vienna]] created the formal [[German Confederation]] in 1815, a [[Bundesversammlung (German Confederation)|Federal Assembly]] convened at the [[Free City of Frankfurt]], representing not the people of the individual [[States of Germany|German Lands]] but their sovereigns. Subsequently, Frankfurt briefly became the official German capital during the short-lived [[Revolutions of 1848 in the German states]].