Bretzenheim (state)

Bretzenheim (state)

Infobox Former Country
native_name = "Reichsgrafschaft Bretzenheim"*
conventional_long_name = Imperial County of Bretzenheim
common_name = Bretzenheim|
continent = Europe
region = Central Europe
country = Germany
era = Napoleonic Wars
status = Vassal
empire = Holy Roman Empire
government_type = Principality|
year_start = 1790
year_end = 1804|
event_start = Partitioned from the
Electoral Palatinate
date_start =
1790
event1 = Raised to princely county
date_event1 = 1789
event2 = Part-mediatised to
Hesse-Darmstadt; granted
Cty Lindau am Bodensee
date_event2 =

1803
event_end = Mediatised to Austria
date_end = |
p1 = Electoral Palatinate
image_p1 =
s1 = Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt
flag_s1 = Flag of Hesse.svg
s2 = Archduchy of Austria
flag_s2 = Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svg|


symbol_type = Coat of arms of Bretzenheim|
capital = Bretzenheim|
footnotes = * Later "Reichsfürstentum Bretzenheim", Imperial princely county of Bretzenheim

Bretzenheim was a minor Principality in pre-Napoleonic Germany. It was created in 1790 for Charles Augustus of the line of Wittelsbach-Bretzenheim. Its territory in central Germany was mediatised to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1803, and its territory north of Lake Constance was mediatised to Austria in 1804.

Prince of Bretzenheim

* Charles Augustus (1790–1804)

External links

* [http://www.countlytton.com Count of Bretzenheim]


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