Palatinate-Veldenz

; Territory in the Holy Roman Empire
Palatinate-Veldenz
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	Pfalz-Veldenz after the death of Georg Johann I (1592)
Alternative names	Pfalz-Veldenz-Lützelstein
Arose from	Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Form of rule	Palatine County
Ruler / government	Count Palatine
Today's region / s	DE-RP , FR-57 , FR-67 ;
Reichskreis	Upper Rhine Empire Circle
Capitals / residences	Lützelstein
Dynasties	1543: Palatinate-Veldenz
Denomination / Religions	Evangelical Lutheran
Language / n	German ;
Incorporated into	1733: Kurpfalz , Pfalz-Sulzbach , Pfalz-Birkenfeld ;

Pfalz-Veldenz was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire , which was split off from Pfalz-Zweibrücken in 1543 in the Marburg Treaty . In addition to the eponymous office Veldenz on the Moselle , the initial equipment included properties in the Glantal. In 1559/66 half of the Guttenberg lordship and the Lützelstein county in the northern Vosges were added from the Palatinate inheritance . In 1694 the line expired and after 40 years of dispute in 1733 the possessions were contractually divided between the Palatinate, Palatinate-Sulzbach and Palatinate-Birkenfeld .

history

Veldenz Castle on the Open Monument Day 2005

Lauterecken Castle , residence of Pfalz-Veldenz

Memorial stone in St. Remigius , the burial place of the princes of Pfalz-Veldenz

Lützelstein Castle , residence of Pfalz-Veldenz

St. Remigius burial place near Kusel

In 1543 it was regulated by the Marburg Treaty that the uncle and guardian Palatine Wolfgangs von Zweibrücken , Ruprecht , should have his own territory for himself and his descendants. Ruprecht died in the following year, 1544; his son Georg Hans took office when he came of age. Its territory included the namesake office Veldenz, the offices of Lauterecken , the Jettenbach court and the provost office Remigiusberg near Kusel , where the hereditary burial of the Count Palatinate of Pfalz-Veldenz is located.

In 1553, Wolfgang achieved in the Heidelberg succession treaty, which regulated the mutual inheritance claims of all Wittelsbach lines, that Pfalz-Veldenz was expanded to include the county of Lützelstein , half of Guttenberg and two thirds of Alsenz .

Palatinate-Veldenz, like all the Wittelsbach-Palatinate branch lines, was not part of the Kurrheinische Reichskreis (where the Heidelberg electors had a seat and vote), but to the Upper Rhine Empire.

The Pfalz-Veldenz line went out in 1694; After a long dispute between the heirs, the territory was contractually divided between the other Palatinate lines in 1733. The former possessions are now in Rhineland-Palatinate and in the two French departments of Moselle and Bas-Rhin .

Pfalz-Veldenz line

The dates given are the government dates for the ruling princes, the life dates for the other people.

Ruprecht (1543–1544)

Anna (1540–1586)

Georg Johann (1544–1592)

Ursula (1543–1578)

Georg Gustav (Pfalz-Veldenz) (1592–1634)

Anna Margarete (1571-1621)

Ursula (1572-1635)

Johann August (Pfalz-Lützelstein)

Ludwig Philipp (Pfalz-Guttenberg)

Georg Johann II. (Palatinate-Lützelstein)

Leopold Ludwig (1634–1694)

Gustav Philipp (1651–1679)

Elisabeth Johanna (1653-1718)

Dorothea (1658-1723)

Karl Georg (1660–1686)

August Leopold (1663–1689)

literature

Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 3rd, improved edition expanded by one register. CH Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34838-6 , p. 412.

Web links

Pfalz-Veldenz (PDF; 4 pages) Residences Commission Kiel Office; Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Retrieved November 24, 2016.

Individual evidence

↑ Winfried Dotzauer: The German Imperial Circles (1383-1806) . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07146-6 , pp. 39 .

[1] Winfried Dotzauer: The German Imperial Circles (1383-1806) . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07146-6 , pp. 39 .