Principality of Aschaffenburg

Infobox Former Country
native_name = "Fürstentum Aschaffenburg"
conventional_long_name = Principality of Aschaffenburg
common_name = Aschaffenburg
continent = Europe
region = Central Europe
country = Germany
era = Napoleonic Wars
status = Client state
status_text = Client of the First French Empire and
State of the Confederation of the Rhine
empire = First French Empire
government_type = Principality
year_start = 1803
event_start = Established
year_end = 1810
event_end = Merged into Grand
spaces|4 Duchy of Frankfurt
event_post = Awarded to Bavaria
date_post = 1814
p1 = Archbishopric of Mainz
image_p1 =
s1 = Grand Duchy of Frankfurt
image_s1 =






image_map_caption =
capital = Aschaffenburg
footnotes =

The Principality of Aschaffenburg ( _de. Fürstentum Aschaffenburg) was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire and the Confederation of the Rhine from 1803–10. Its capital was Aschaffenburg.

With the secularization of the Archbishopric of Mainz in 1803, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg was compensated by receiving the newly-created principalities of Aschaffenburg and Regensburg and the County of Wetzlar. Along with the city of Aschaffenburg, the Principality of Aschaffenburg also consisted of Klingenberg, Lohr, Aufenau, Stadtprozelten, Orb, and Aura.

The principality became part of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806 after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1810 Napoleon granted Dalberg's Principality of Regensburg to the Kingdom of Bavaria and compensated him with Hanau and Fulda. Dalberg merged his remaining territories of Aschaffenburg, Frankfurt, Wetzlar, Hanau, and Fulda into the new Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, with the Principality of Aschaffenburg becoming a department of the new grand duchy. The city of Aschaffenburg remained the residence of Dalberg, however. The region was annexed by Bavaria in 1814.

References

*cite book|last=Köbler|first=Gerhard|title=Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder|publisher=Verlag C. H. Beck|location=Munich|year=1988|pages=639|isbn=3406332900 de icon