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County (Principality) of Solms-Braunfels Grafschaft (Fürstentum) Solms-Braunfels | |||||||||||||||
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1258–1806 | |||||||||||||||
Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||||||
Capital | Braunfels | ||||||||||||||
Common languages | West Central German | ||||||||||||||
Government | Principality | ||||||||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||||
• Partitioned from Solms | 1258 | ||||||||||||||
1325 | |||||||||||||||
• Partitioned to create Lich | 1409 | ||||||||||||||
1592 | |||||||||||||||
• Raised to principality | 1742 | ||||||||||||||
1806 | |||||||||||||||
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Solms-Braunfels was a County and later Principality with Imperial immediacy in what is today the federal Land of Hesse in Germany.
Solms-Braunfels was a partition of Solms, ruled by the House of Solms, and was raised to a Principality of the Holy Roman Empire in 1742. The county of Solms-Braunfels was partitioned between: itself and Solms-Ottenstein in 1325; itself and Solms-Lich in 1409; and itself, Solms-Greifenstein and Solms-Hungen in 1592.
Frederick William (1696–1761) was created a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1742, with his younger offspring also bearing the title prince and princess, styled Serene Highness . The Principality of Solms-Braunfels was mediatised to Austria, Hesse-Darmstadt, Prussia and Württemberg in 1806.
The main branch of the princely House of Solms-Braunfels became extinct with Georg Friedrich Victor in 1970. Braunfels and Hungen Castles including their agricultural and forest estates were inherited by the last Prince's daughter Maria Gabrielle Princess of Solms-Braunfels (1918−2003) and her husband Hans Georg Count von Oppersdorff (1920−2003). Since 1969, they and their offspring bear the name Count/Countess von Oppersdorff-Solms-Braunfels, with consent of the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.
An Austrian side branch (which had owned estates in Bohemia and Hungary until 1945) became extinct in 1989.
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