Facts in brief:
Located on W bank of Rhein; was Roman fortification; captured by Franks in 456; seat of powerful archbishop, town became independent in
1288; member of Hanseatic League; declined in Thirty Years' War of 17th cen.; Prussian from 1815; destroyed in WW II.
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