County of Solms-Laubach Grafschaft Solms-Laubach | |||||||||
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| 1544–1676 1696–1806 | |||||||||
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| Status | State of theHoly Roman Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Laubach | ||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Partitioned fromS-Lich | 1544 | ||||||||
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• Annexed toSolms-Baruth | 1676–96 | ||||||||
• Mediatised toHesse | 1806 | ||||||||
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Solms-Laubach was a County of southernHesse and easternRhineland-Palatinate,Germany. TheHouse of Solms[1] had its origins inSolms, Hesse.
Solms-Laubach was originally created as a partition ofSolms-Lich. In 1537Philip, Count of Solms-Lich, ruling count atLich, purchased theHerrschaftSonnewalde inLower Lusatia which he left to his younger son Otto of Solms-Laubach (1496–1522), together with the county ofLaubach. While Lich and Laubach were counties withimperial immediacy, Sonnewalde remained a semi-independentstate country within theMarch of Lusatia (the latter being an immediate state of the Holy Roman Empire). A later Count Otto (1550–1612) moved to Sonnewalde and built the castle in 1582. In 1596 he also purchased the nearby Herrschaft ofBaruth which was also elevated to a state country within the March of Lusatia. The branch then was divided into the twigs of Solms-Laubach,Solms-Sonnewalde and Solms-Baruth.
Solms-Laubach partitioned between itself andSolms-Sonnenwalde in 1561; between itself,Solms-Baruth andSolms-Rödelheim 1607; and between itself andSolms-Sonnenwalde 1627. Solms-Laubach inherited Solms-Sonnenwalde in 1615. With the death of Count Charles Otto in 1676, it was inherited by Solms-Baruth and recreated as a partition in 1696. Solms-Laubach wasmediatised toHesse-Darmstadt in 1806.
The counts of Solms-Laubach still ownLaubach Castle andArnsburg Abbey. Until 1935,Münzenberg Castle also belonged to the estate.
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1 Part of theThree Bishoprics. 2Nomeny after 1737. 3 withoutReichstag seat. 4 until 1736. 5 JoinedSwiss Confederacy in 1515. Circles est. 1500:Bavarian,Swabian,Upper Rhenish,Lower Rhenish–Westphalian,Franconian,(Lower) Saxon Circles est. 1512:Austrian,Burgundian,Upper Saxon,Electoral Rhenish · Unencircled territories | |||||
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