Hanau-Münzenberg
Sign in to saveThe County of Hanau-Münzenberg was a territory within the Holy Roman Empire. It emerged when the County of Hanau was divided in 1458, the other part being the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg. Due to common heirs, both counties were merged from 1642 to 1685 and from 1712 to 1736. In 1736 the last member of the House of Hanau died and the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel inherited the county.
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- Country
- Hanau-Münzenberg
- Located in
- County of Hanau-Lichtenberg
- Capital
- Hanau
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- inception
- 1458-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1785-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Emergence
- First Reformation
- Second Reformation
- Modernisation
- Thirty Years' War
- First reunion
- Policies
- Economy
- Separated again
- Second reunion
- Secundogeniture within the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel
- Principality of Hanau
- See also
- References
- Literature
The County of Hanau-Münzenberg was a territory within the Holy Roman Empire. It emerged when the County of Hanau was divided in 1458, the other part being the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg. Due to common heirs, both counties were merged from 1642 to 1685 and from 1712 to 1736. In 1736 the last member of the House of Hanau died and the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel inherited the county.
== Geography == thumb|upright=2.0|Map of the county Hanau-Münzenberg by Friedrich Zollmann 1728 The county of Hanau-Münzenberg was positioned to the north of the river Main stretching from the West of Frankfurt am Main eastwards through the valley of the river Kinzig to Schlüchtern and into the Spessart mountains to Partenstein. The capital was the town of Hanau. The counts had also castles in Windecken (disused after the 16th century) and Steinau an der Straße.
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