Hanau-Lichtenberg
The County of Hanau-Lichtenberg was a territory in the Holy Roman Empire. It emerged between 1456 and 1480 from a part of the County of Hanau and one half of the Barony of Lichtenberg. Following the extinction of the counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg in 1736 it went to Hesse-Darmstadt, minor parts of it to the Hesse-Cassel. Its centre was in the lower Alsace, the capital first Babenhausen, later Buchsweiler.
County of Hanau-Lichtenberg Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg | |||||||||||||||
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| 1456/80 – 1736 | |||||||||||||||
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| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||||||
| Capital | Buchsweiler | ||||||||||||||
| Government | County | ||||||||||||||
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• Established | 1456-1480 | ||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1736 | ||||||||||||||
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Roman Catholic; from 16th-century Lutheran; ruled by counts; language: German | |||||||||||||||
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