County of Tecklenburg
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County of Tecklenburg Grafschaft Tecklenburg | |||||||||
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département of Lippe | 1810–15 | ||||||||
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The County of Tecklenburg (German: Grafschaft Tecklenburg) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the present German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony.
History
Burg Tecklenburg.
.
In the 12th century the county of Tecklenburg emerged in the region that is now called the "Tecklenburger Land" in the western foothills of the Teutoburg Forest
Following the extinction of the counts of Tecklenburg in 1262, it was annexed by the neighbouring
Counts of Schwerin. In 1365 they acquired the Lordship of Rheda, but in 1400 they lost the northern parts of the county with the districts of Cloppenburg, Friesoythe and Bevergern to the Prince-Bishopric of Münster
.
Calvinism
to Tecklenburg.
In 1696 the County of Tecklenburg was ceded to the
Solms-Braunfels sold Tecklenburg to Prussia. In the Berlin Treaty of 1729 the comital house of Bentheim-Tecklenburg
abandoned all claims to the county.
The county was mediatised to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1808. Tecklenburg was annexed by France in 1810 together with many northwest German regions. The Congress of Vienna returned Tecklenburg to Prussia in 1816.
See also
External links
Bibliography
- Holsche, August Karl (1788). Historisch-topographisch-statistische Beschreibung der Graffschaft Tecklenburg nebst einigen speciellen Landesverordnungen mit Anmerkungen, als ein Beytrag zur vollständigen Beschreibung Westphalens' (in German). Berlin and Frankfurt.
- Essellen (1877). Geschichte der Grafschaft Tecklenburg (in German). Leipzig.
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