County of Schaumburg Grafschaft Schaumburg (German)
1110–1640
Coat of arms
Map of the two successor territories Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe and County of Schaumburg Hessian share from 1866
Status	State of theHoly Roman Empire
Capital	Rinteln
Common languages	Northern Low Saxon
Government	County
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Established	1110
• Partitioned to create     Schaumburg-Lippe;     remainder toHesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)	1640
Preceded by Succeeded by Duchy of Saxony Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel

TheCounty of Schaumburg (German:Grafschaft Schaumburg), until ca. 1485 known asSchauenburg, was a state of theHoly Roman Empire, located in the present German state ofLower Saxony. Its territory was more or less congruent with the presentdistrictLandkreis Schaumburg.

Schaumburg originated as amedieval county, which was founded at the beginning of the 12th century. It was named afterSchauenburg Castle, nearRinteln on theWeser, where the owners started calling themselvesLords (from 1295Counts) of Schauenburg.Adolf I probably became the firstLord ofSchauenburg in 1106.

In 1110,Adolf I, Lord of Schauenburg was appointed byLothair, Duke of Saxony to holdHolstein andStormarn, includingHamburg, asfiefs.^[1] Subsequently, theHouse of Schaumburg were also counts of Holstein and its partitionsHolstein-Itzehoe,Holstein-Kiel,Holstein-Pinneberg (until 1640),Holstein-Plön,Holstein-Segeberg andHolstein-Rendsburg (until 1460) and through the latter at times also the dukes ofSchleswig.

Count Adolf IV was an active ruler and founded the cities ofStadthagen andRinteln.

From 1500 the County of Schaumburg belonged to theLower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle of theHoly Roman Empire.

After the childless death in 1640 ofCount Otto V, theHouse of Schaumburg became extinct. The County of Holstein-Pinneberg was merged with theDuchy of Holstein. The County of Schaumburg proper was partitioned among theagnatic Schaumburg heirs into three parts, one incorporated into the ducalBrunswick and LunenburgianPrincipality of Lüneburg, the largest portion becoming the County ofSchaumburg-Lippe, and the eastern territory continuing the name County of Schaumburg (Grafschaft Schaumburg hessischen Anteils, 'County of Schaumburg Hessian portion'), ruled inpersonal union byHesse-Cassel. Even after thePrussian annexation of bothHanover (the successor to Brunswick-Lüneburg) andElectoral Hesse (the successor to Hesse-Cassel) the Hessian part remained anexclave of theProvince of Hesse-Nassau until it was transferred to theProvince of Hanover in 1932. All three are now part of the state ofLower Saxony.

When theDistrict of Schaumburg (Landkreis Schaumburg) was formed in middleLower Saxony in 1977, it chose to use a coat of arms derived from the ancient arms of the Counts of Schaumberg.

• Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schaumburg

• Matthias Blazek:Die Grafschaft Schaumburg 1647–1977. ibidem, Stuttgart 2011ISBN 978-3-8382-0257-0
• Walter Maack:Die Geschichte der Grafschaft Schaumburg, 3. Aufl., Rinteln 1986

• Marek, Miroslav."Genealogy of Schauenburg". Genealogy.EU.
• Map of the counties of Schaumburg and Schaumburg-Lippe in 1789

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