List of regiments of the Kurheinische Reichskreis
The kurrheinische Circle included the four Rhenish electorates since 1512 Kurtrier , Palatinate , Kurmainz and Electorate of Cologne . Smaller members were the territories of the Teutonic Order Coming Koblenz , the Duchy of Arenberg , the Burgraviate Rheineck , the County of Niederisenburg and the Lordship of Beilstein.
In the event of war, the Kurheinische Reichskreis had to provide a troop contingent to the Reichsarmee .
Regiments
In the Seven Years' War from 1757 to 1763, the troops were kurrheinische as Circle troops not involved in the "Imperial Reichsexekution army." However, the troops of the four Kurhein territories are named separately.
Infantry regiments
- Infantry Regiment Kurpfalz
- Kurmainz Infantry Regiment
- Leib-Regiment Kurköln
- Kurköln Infantry Regiment
- Kurtrier Infantry Regiment
Cavalry regiments
- Cuirassier Regiment Kurpfalz
- The 2nd and 3rd squadrons of the Zweibrücken Equestrian Regiment and the Upper Rhine District Squadron were combined to form the Kurpfalz Cuirassier Regiment during the Seven Years' War.
See also
- Imperial Army
- Lower Rhine-Westphalian Imperial Circle
- List of the Standing Armies of the Early Modern Period
literature
- Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century; 3 volumes; Biblio Verlag: Osnabrück 1986-1995. ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 . P. 238ff.
- Winfried Dotzauer: The German imperial circles in the constitution of the old empire and their own life. 1500-1806 . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1989. S. 285ff. ISBN 3-534-04139-9 - p. 322ff online version (selection)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dotzauer 1989: 292