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Name: Hohnstein County

Type: Polity

Start: 1181 AD

End: 1632 AD

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Was a county of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment


  • January 1181: Hohnstein County gains imperial immediacy.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • January 1254: Hohnstein county acquired Klettenberg as fief of the Bishopric of Halberstadt.

  • January 1301: The Counts of Hohnstein bought this castle from the Counts of Beichlingen around 1260-1300 and established an independent county.

  • January 1379: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire in the XIV century.

  • January 1419: As Count Dietrich IX. von Hohnstein (Hohnstein-Kelbra-Heringen line) died in 1417, parts of the town fell to the Counts of Schwarzburg and the Counts of Stolberg.

  • January 1594: In 1593 the county of Hohnstein passed to Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1633: Hohnstein County falls to Brunswick.
  • Selected Sources


  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 30-31
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