I don't want to create a TL. Because I don't have the time to do it. The projects I have on Deviantart and the shitty Roman Empire, plus the RL take up a lot of time.
But I'd love to hear your opinions.
Would it be possible to see a German Empire formed from Bavaria? And when would it be possible to bring down the POD?
Certainly not after Napoleon, at least I think so. So in the 18th century, but when? War of the Austrian Succession?
And Prussia? Would it have the strength to stay out of a south-oriented German empire?
I would go with a pod from the 14th century, when the Wittelsbachs were competing for the imperial throne with the Luxembourgs and Habsburgs, I practically suggest a better last part of the reign for Ludwig IV compared to Otl ( perhaps with the accompanying defeat of Charles of Bohemia in 1347, which quite feasible given that before his death Ludwig was about to go into battle against him, and according to historians he had a slight numerical advantage compared to the Luxembourg anti-king ) this allows him to have a free hand for the moment in Germany ( it is considering that all at the time, the Wittelsbachs held Bavaria, the Palatinate, Holland, Zeeland, Hainaut and Brandenburg ) furthermore Ludwig had an important direct influence in Italy ( especially in Rome, where he also gave birth to one of his sons, called the Romanus, Otl Ludwig VI ) therefore depending on how events develop, we will find ourselves faced with an HRE that returns to the path of centralization, albeit with some concessions of territorial autonomy, given that Ludwig had conceived, like Charles IV in Otl, a sort of Golden Bull , but which would have included all three kingdoms constituting the Reich ( Italy, Burgundy / Arelate and Germany ), certainly it is not a purely German empire as the author of the discussion requested, but something on a completely different scale ( given that it would be an Empire that would include from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean, and as many different languages and cultures, but no less achievable for this, indeed in reality this was one of the last concrete moments in which such a state could in some way be formed ( if we exclude the Habsburgs in Otl, who were the ones with the greatest possibility of trying again and potentially succeeding but faced much worse problems ( such as the Reformation and the French -Ottoman axis ) which prevented them from fully concentrating on the realization )
