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County of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim Grafschaft Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim | |||||||||||||
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1635–1699 1722–1728 1778–1806 | |||||||||||||
Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||||
Capital | Rödelheim | ||||||||||||
Government | Principality | ||||||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||
1635 | |||||||||||||
• Repartitioned in twain | 1699 | ||||||||||||
• Reunited | 1722 | ||||||||||||
• Repartitioned | 1728 | ||||||||||||
• Reunited | 1778 | ||||||||||||
1806 | |||||||||||||
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Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim was a County of southern Hesse and eastern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The House of Solms[1] had its origins at Solms, Hesse.
Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim was thrice created by a union of the Counts of Solms-Assenheim and Solms-Rödelheim, and on the first two occasions repartitioned into those statelets. Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim was mediatised to Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) and Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806.
Counts of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim
[edit]First creation: 1635–1699[2][better source needed]
[edit]- Johann August, Count 1635–1680 (1623-1680), second son of Johann Georg II, Count of Solms-Baruth
- Johann Karl Eberhard, Count 1680–1699 (1657-1699), eldest surviving son
Second creation: 1722–28
[edit]Ludwig Heinrich, Count 1722-1728 (1667-1728), third surviving son of Johann August, inherited Assenheim 1699, Rödelheim 1722
Third creation: 1778–1806
[edit]- Johann Ernst Karl, Count 1778–90 (1714-1790), second surviving son of Ludwig Heinrich, inherited elder brother's territories 1778
- Volrath Franz Karl Ludwig, Count 1790–1818 (1762-1818), mediatized 1806
After Mediatization
[edit]- Volrath Franz Karl Ludwig, Count 1790–1818 (1762-1818), mediatized 1806
- Karl, Count 1818-1844 (1790-1844)
- Maximilian, Count 1844-1892 (1826-1892)
- Karl Franz, Count 1892-1923 (1864-1923)
- Maximilian, Count 1923-1968 (1893-1968)
- Markwart, Count 1968-1976 (1925-1976), adopted Nikolaus as his successor
- Count Joachim Ernst of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim (1896-1978)
- Count Günther Wolfgang of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim (1931-1979)
- Nikolaus, Count 1979-1981 (1961-1981)
- Philipp, Count 1981–present (born 1964)
- Theodor, Hereditary Count (born 2010)[citation needed]
- Count Günther Wolfgang of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim (1931-1979)
- Maximilian, Count 1923-1968 (1893-1968)
- Karl Franz, Count 1892-1923 (1864-1923)
- Maximilian, Count 1844-1892 (1826-1892)
- Karl, Count 1818-1844 (1790-1844)
Properties
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Assenheim Castle
References
[edit]- ^ See German article on the House of Solms or French article Maison de Solms.
- ^ Marek, Miroslav. "solms/solms8.html". genealogy.euweb.cz.[self-published source]