Bretzenheim (state)

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Reichsgrafschaft Bretzenheim*
Imperial County of Bretzenheim

State of the Holy Roman Empire

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1790 – 1804

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Coat of arms of Bretzenheim

Capital

Bretzenheim

Government

Principality

Historical era

Napoleonic Wars

- Partitioned from the
Electoral Palatinate

1790

- Raised to princely county

1789

- Part-mediatised to
Hesse-Darmstadt; granted
Cty Lindau am Bodensee

1803

- Mediatised to Austria

1804

* 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.