Regensburg

Bavaria (Holy Roman Empire) — medieval

Regensburg, on the Danube in Bavaria, southern Germany, began as the Roman fortress Castra Regina, built in 179. Saint Boniface re-established its bishopric in 739, and Albertus Magnus served briefly as its bishop from 1260. The city adopted the Reformation in 1542, and from 1663 to 1806 it was the permanent seat of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire; Johannes Kepler died there in 1630. Its Jewish community, documented from the late tenth century and the oldest on record in Bavaria, produced scholars such as the liturgical poet Ephraim ben Isaac and Judah ben Samuel he-Hasid (d. 1217), principal author of Sefer Hasidim, until about 800 Jews were expelled in 1519; Jews were readmitted in 1669.

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