County of Bretzenheim

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Imperial County of Bretzenheim

Reichsgrafschaft Bretzenheim*

1790–1804

Coat of arms of Bretzenheim of Bretzenheim

Coat of arms of Bretzenheim

Status

County

Capital

Bretzenheim

Common languages

mediatised to
Hesse-Darmstadt; granted
County of Lindau am Bodensee

1803

• Mediatised to Austria

1804

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Electorate of the Palatinate

Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt
Archduchy of Austria

* Later Reichsfürstentum Bretzenheim, Imperial princely county of Bretzenheim

Bretzenheim was a minor principality in pre-

Wittelsbach-Bretzenheim, son of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria

and Palatinate.

Its territory in central Germany was

imperial city of Lindau) was mediatised to Austria

Before 1789-1790 it was an Imperial Lordship and it had some important rulers, including Ambrosius Franz, Count of Virmont. In 1772 the Elector of Palatinate bought the Lordship (Imperial County 1774 ) for his son.

Prince of Bretzenheim

Charles Augustus (1790–1804)

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