Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Infobox Former Country
native_name = "Grafschaft (Fürstentum) Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt"
conventional_long_name = County (Principality) of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
common_name = Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
continent = Europe
region = Central Europe
country = Germany
era = Middle Ages
status = Vassal
status_text= State of the Holy Roman Empire,
State of the Confederation of the Rhine,
State of the German Confederation,
State of the North German Confederation,
State of the German Empire,
State of the Weimar Republic
empire = Holy Roman Empire
government_type = Principality
year_start = 1599
year_end = 1920
event_start = Partitioned from
spaces|4Schwarzburg
date_start =
1599
event1 = Raised to Principality
date_event1 = 1711
event_end = German Revolution
date_end =
event_post = Merged into Thuringia
date_post = 1920
p1 = County of Schwarzburg
flag_p1 = Flagge Fürstentümer Schwarzburg.svg
s1 = Thuringia
flag_s1 = Flag of Thuringia (state).svg

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image_map_caption = Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt within Thuringia
capital = Rudolstadt
stat_year1 = 1905
stat_area1 = 940
stat_pop1 = 97000

Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a small state in Germany, in the present-day state of Thuringia formed in a resettlement of Schwarzburg dynasty family lands, with its capital (and the Guenther ( _de. Günther) family seat) originally in the castle at Schwarzburg, but later, for most of its existence as a polity having the capital at the larger town of Rudolstadt. It was founded after the partition of the schwarzburger possessions in 1599. A sovereign county under the Holy Roman Empire until 1711, in that year it became a principality under the same entity. TOCnestright|maxwidth=200px|appendinside=In late 1918, and during the German Revolution, resulting in the fall of all the German monarchies, the prince abdicated, and in 1920 the former principality became a part of the new state of Thuringia. Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt had an area of km2 to mi2|940|wiki=yes|abbr=yes and a population of 97,000 (1905).

Rulers of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Counts of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

* 1574–1605: Count Albrecht VII (1537–1605), son of Count Günther XL of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg, founder of the county (state) of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 2
* 1605–30: Count Karl Günther, also known as Charles Guenther (1576–1630, succeeded by younger brother Ludwig I) 2
* 1630–46: Count Ludwig Günther I, also known as Louis Guenther (1581–1646) IGraf 16CHAR|Ludwig Guenther of|Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt|p=Ludwig Guenther plays a pivotal fictionalized historical character role in the popular alternative history Ring of Fire series. (See GG01|IN="The Rudolstadt Colloquy".) He would have been the first nobleman of Germany aware of the "Ring of Fire" and the existence of a town from the future as is told in the short story GG05|IN="Schwaraza Falls". In that tale, part of the territory of Schwarzburg travels to the year 2000 AD in the exchange of mass and territory that deposited Grantville in 1631 AD Thuringia. 1632 referenced person2
* 1646–62: Regent Emilie of Delmenhorst (1614–70)2
* 1662–1710: Count Albrecht Anton (1641–1710)

Princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

* 1710–18: Prince Louis Frederick I (1667–1718)
* 1718–44: Prince Frederick Anton (1692–1744)
* 1744–67: Prince John Frederick (1721–67)
* 1767–1790: Prince Louis Günther II (1708–90)
* 1790–93: Prince Frederick Charles (1736–93)
* 1793–1807: Prince Louis Frederick II (1767–1807)
* 1807–14: Regent Caroline Luise of Hessen-Homburg (1771–1854)
* 1814–67: Prince Frederick Günther (1793–1867)
* 1867–69: Prince Albert (1798–1869)
* 1869–90: Prince Georg Albert (1838–90)
* 1890–1918: Prince Günther (1852–1925) succeeded as Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen in 1909 on the death of Prince Karl Günther.

Heads of the princely house of Schwarzburg post-monarchy

On the death of the childless Prince Günther Victor in 1925 he was succeeded by Prince Sizzo (1860–1926) who was the son of Prince Friedrich Günther (1793–1867) from his second, morganatic marriage. Prince Sizzo was recognised as a full member of the House of Schwarzburg in 1896.

* 1918–25: Prince Günther (1852–1925)
* 1925–26: Prince Sizzo (1860–1926)
* 1926–1971 Prince Friedrich Günther (1901–71)

External links

* [http://www.heraldica.org/topics/royalty/HGSchwarzburg.htm House laws of Schwarzburg]
* [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/schwarzburg.html Genealogy of the Princes of Schwarzburg]