Principality of Aschaffenburg
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Principality of Aschaffenburg Fürstentum Aschaffenburg (German) | |||||||||
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1803–1810 | |||||||||
Status | Established | 1803 | |||||||
• Merged into Grand Duchy of Frankfurt | 1810 | ||||||||
• Awarded to Bavaria | 1814 | ||||||||
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The Principality of Aschaffenburg (German: Fürstentum Aschaffenburg) was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire created in 1803 and, following the dissolution of the Empire in 1806, of the Confederation of the Rhine, which existed from 1806 to 1810. Its capital was Aschaffenburg.
With the
.The principality became part of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806 after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1810
Napoleon granted Dalberg's Principality of Regensburg to the Kingdom of Bavaria and compensated him with Hanau and Fulda. Dalberg merged his remaining territories of Aschaffenburg, Frankfurt, Wetzlar, Hanau, and Fulda into the new Grand Duchy of Frankfurt
, with the Principality of Aschaffenburg becoming a department of the new grand duchy. The city of Aschaffenburg remained the residence of Dalberg, however. The region was annexed by Bavaria in 1814.
References
- Köbler, Gerhard (1988). Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder (in German). ISBN 3-406-33290-0.