County of Bentheim
The County of Bentheim (Grafschaft Bentheim, Low German Benthem) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the south-west corner of today's Lower Saxony, Germany. The county's borders corresponded largely to those of the modern administrative district (Landkreis) of Grafschaft Bentheim.
County of Bentheim Grafschaft Bentheim | |||||||||||
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| c. 1050–1806 | |||||||||||
Coat of arms
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The County of Bentheim around 1350 | |||||||||||
| Status | County | ||||||||||
| Capital | Bad Bentheim | ||||||||||
| Common languages | West Low German | ||||||||||
| Government | County | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages, Early modern period | ||||||||||
• Bentheim Castle mentioned | c. 1050 | ||||||||||
• Partitioned into Bentheim-Bentheim and Bentheim-Tecklenburg | 1277 | ||||||||||
• Split off Bentheim-Steinfurt | 1454 | ||||||||||
• Split off B.-Tecklenburg-Rheda | 1606 | ||||||||||
| 1806 | |||||||||||
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Geographically, Bentheim is composed largely of fenland, and early settlement was concentrated along the banks of the rivers which pass through the county. Deposits of Bentheim sandstone formed the basis of a profitable export trade to other parts of present-day Germany and the Netherlands.
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