Imperial County of Bretzenheim Reichsgrafschaft Bretzenheim* | |||||||||||
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| 1790–1804 | |||||||||||
 Coat of arms of Bretzenheim
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| Status | County | ||||||||||
| Capital | Bretzenheim | ||||||||||
| Common languages | West Central German | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Napoleonic Wars | ||||||||||
• Partitioned from the Electorate of the Palatinate | 1790 1790 | ||||||||||
• Raised to princely county | 1789 | ||||||||||
| 1803 | |||||||||||
• Mediatised to Austria | 1804 | ||||||||||
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* Later Reichsfürstentum Bretzenheim, Imperial princely county of Bretzenheim | |||||||||||
Bretzenheim was a minor principality in pre-Napoleonic Germany. It was created in 1790 for Prince Charles Augustus (1769-1823) of the line of Wittelsbach-Bretzenheim, son of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria and Palatinate.
Its territory in central Germany was mediatised to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1803, and its territory north of Lake Constance (former imperial city of Lindau) was mediatised to Austria in 1804.
Before 1789-1790 it was an Imperial Lordship and it had some important rulers, including Ambrosius Franz, Count of Virmont. In 1772 the Elector of Palatinate bought the Lordship (Imperial County 1774 ) for his son.
Prince of Bretzenheim[edit]
- Charles Augustus (1790–1804)