Frehmenwerth

Frehmenwerth is the capital and second-largest city of the Most Serene Federation of Hendalarsk, the largest being Zalgisbeck. Founded more than 1200 years ago, Frehmenwerth is often considered the oldest continuously-inhabited major settlement in the nation, although other cities such as Márványfalak have increasingly come to challenge this designation in recent years.

The nation's political hub, Frehmenwerth is also the key commercial entrepôt of the Upper Zalgis and serves as the gateway to southwestern Hendalarsk for domestic and international traffic from both the north and the east of the country, a role which has contributed to its commercial prominence since the medieval epoch. Although it has become displaced as the nation's primary commercial hub in recent decades by Zalgisbeck, with the latter's position on the Vandarch at the mouth of the Zalgis driving its growth, Frehmenwerth remains the nation's key financial centre and the home of its stock exchange, the HenBürs, as well as the site of many ministries and institutes of government. Most foreign governments have their primary diplomatic bases in the city's World Quarter (Weltviertel), while the Lagyar Quarter (Lungarviertel) on the banks of the Zalgis is the nation's greatest concentration of 'classical culture' in the form of museums, theatres, galleries and concert venues.