Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim

County of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim

Grafschaft Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim

State of the Holy Roman Empire

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1635–1699
1722–1728
1778–1806

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Coat of arms

Capital

Rödelheim

Government

Principality

Historical era

Middle Ages

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Union of S-Rödelheim
and S-Assenheim

1635

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Repartitioned in twain

1699

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Reunited

1722

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Repartitioned

1728

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Reunited

1778

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Mediatised to Hesse-
-Kassel and -Darmstadt

1806

Assenheim Castle

Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim was a County of southern Hesse and eastern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The House of Solms 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

First creation: 1635–1699^[1]

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

Ludwig Heinrich, Count 1722-1728 (1667-1728), third surviving son of Johann August, inherited Assenheim 1699, Rödelheim 1722

Third creation: 1778–1806

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

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)^[2]

References

Upper Rhenish Circle (1500–1806) of the Holy Roman Empire

Ecclesiastical

Secular

Bar
Heitersheim
Hersfeld
Hesse
- Darmstadt
- Homburg
- Kassel
- Marburg
- Rheinfels
Isenburg-Birstein
Kaiserslautern
Lorraine²
Nassau
- Idstein
- Ottweiler
- Saarbrücken
- Usingen
- Weilburg
Salm
- Kyrburg
- Salm
Savoy
Simmern
Solms-Braunfels
Sponheim³
Veldenz / Lautereck
Waldeck³
Zweibrücken

Counts
and Lords

With Imp. Diet seats	Hanau Lichtenberg Münzenberg⁴ Isenburg Birstein Büdingen Büdingen-Birstein Königstein Mainz Stolberg Kriechingen Leiningen Dagsburg Hardenburg Westerburg Salm Grehweiler Grumbach Solms Hohensolms Laubach Lich Rödelheim Wetterau Wittgenstein Berleburg Wittgenstein

Without	Bretzenheim Dagstuhl Falkenstein Isenburg Meerholz Wächtersbach Mensfelden Olbrück Reipoltskirchen Salm-Dhaun Wartenberg

Cities

Décapole	Colmar Hagenau Kaisersberg Landau Mühlhausen⁵ Münster im Elsaß Oberehnheim Rosheim Schlettstadt Türkheim Weißenburg

Others	Frankfurt Friedberg Metz Speyer Straßburg Toul Verdun Wetzlar Worms

¹ Part of the Three Bishoprics. ² Nomeny after 1737. ³ without Reichstag seat. ⁴ until 1736. ⁵ Joined Swiss Confederacy in 1515.

Circles est. 1500: Bavarian, Swabian, Upper Rhenish, Lower Rhenish–Westphalian, Franconian, (Lower) Saxon
Circles est. 1512: Austrian, Burgundian, Upper Saxon, Electoral Rhenish · Unencircled territories

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