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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
StatusCounty
CapitalBretzenheim
Common languagesWest Central German
Historical eraNapoleonic Wars
• Partitioned from the
    Electorate of the Palatinate
 
1790 1790
• Raised to princely county
1789
• Part-mediatised to
    Hesse-Darmstadt; granted
    County of Lindau am Bodensee
 
 
1803
• Mediatised to Austria
1804
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Electorate of the Palatinate 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-Napoleonic Germany. It was created in 1790 for Prince Charles Augustus (1769-1823) of the line of Wittelsbach-Bretzenheim, son of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria and Palatinate.

Its territory in central Germany was mediatised to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1803, and its territory north of Lake Constance (former imperial city of Lindau) was mediatised to Austria in 1804.

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

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