REICH EMPIRE

Reich empire has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then enlisted in the IMPERIUM category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the entire history of european integration and the future of Europe.

The Reich Empire was a supranational political entity of the history of European integration in continuity with the Carolingian Empire, from 962 A.D. when Otto I "the Great" king of the Germans (or Eastern Franks) was anointed as new Christian emperor by the Pope in the Saint Peter's basilica in Rome, the seat of the Catholic Church, starting a long tradition of crowning as Rex Romanorum continued until the First World War! In that case, the new emperor made shaping the Reich emperors crown called Reichkrone, actually preserved by the imperial palace in Wien (the last capital of the Reich) and as a copy in the imperial "Palatium" of Aachen/Aquisgrana, seat of the ancient Carolingian Empire.

The Reich Empire continued the "Feudalism" system and inherited the militar and political organization defined by Charles I "the great", in virtue of what Otto I assumed the role of defensor fidei for Christianity and promoter of the missio evangelica spreaded over the Scandinavian peninsula and Eastern peoples (keeping the official name of "Sacer Romanum Imperium" or first reich holy roman empire). He also established a new public organization system for the "ecclesiae christiana" within the Reich Empire space: the Bishops could be charged of civil powers and functions by the emperor (as it was with the reform of Constantine I), who could accept or not the election of Pope by the Catholic Church Council.

That decision became the casus belli of the perpetual fight of Roman Church against the Reich Empire until XV century A.D.! At the beginning it was the "Investiture Controversy", then the "Guelphs and Ghibellines" and in the end the "Western schism" that divided the European genealogies in two factions and involved in the process of political integration of Europe. The turning point was in 1356 A.D. with the "democratic" reform of Reich Empire, that enlarged its borders until the Vistola river thanks to the imperial politic of evangelization called "Drang nach Osten", and the establishment to assign the crown only to members of the Habsburg dinasty until 1919 A.D..

The Reich empire had many capitals (Essen, Paderborn, Goslar, Palermo, Prague, Toledo and Wien), as it happened at the Roman Empire after the reform of Tetrarchy whose capitals (Rome, Ravenna, Milan and Trier) have always been under the direct control of the Reich emperors, cause of an ancient carolingian act. The main reason of the capital movements was the necessity to be near the most critical area or the originary seat of the imperial family: the borders of Reich Empire changed continuolsy all along a thousand year of existence, from Pyrenees to the Jutland, until the Baltic Sea coasts and along the Vistola and Danube rivers, including the Pannonian Basin and for some periods the Iberian and Italian peninsulas.

The Reich empire accompanied the history of European integration from the low Middle Age up to the modern era and definitely contibuted to prepare the future of Europe, transmitting the ancient Greeks&Romans fundamental culture mixed to the faith inherited from the Christian Empire. During 1000 years of ruling, the Reich Empire saw the birth of the European cities (called "Comuni"), universities, local autonomies and quite all the national reigns or states, together with their peoples and languages, assigned to the emerging European genealogies.

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