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 Północnogorod have increasingly come to challenge this designation in recent years.
Frehmenwerth | |
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City | |
| Motto(s): Erste Stadt unter Städten The First City Among Cities | |
| Country |  Hendalarsk |
| State | Hendalarskara Capital Territory |
| Foundation | 782 CE |
| Founded by | Damsgard I Jochn |
| Hendalarskara Bundestag | Nine seats |
| Government | |
| • Type | Executive mayoralty, conciliar parliament |
| • Body | Frehmenbund |
| • Mayor | Andreas Reinhart |
| • Deputy Mayor | Maria Schwolschloß |
| • Provisioner | Lukas Armenoren |
| Population (2019) | |
| • Total | 2,083,455 |
| Demonym(s) | Frehmenwerther (m), Frehmenwerthrin (f), Frehmenwerthrö (n) |
| Time zone | UTC-2 (Hendalarskara Mean Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (Hendalarskara Summer Time) |
| Area code(s) | 332 |
| Website | www.frehmenbund.hdl |
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 Lechian Quarter (Letschviertel) 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.