Solms-Hohensolms
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| Arose from | Solms-Lich |
| Form of rule | county |
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Count
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Upper Rhine Empire Circle
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| Denomination / Religions | Calvinist Reformed in the city of Hohensolms, Evangelical Lutheran in the localities
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Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
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The county of Solms-Hohensolms was a direct imperial county of the Holy Roman Empire , which was ruled by a line of the House of Solms-Lich .
territory
The county of Solms-Hohensolms consisted of the Hohensolms office with the then city of Hohensolms and the villages of Ahrdt , Altenkirchen , Bermoll , Bellersdorf (re-established from 1699), Blasbach , Erda , Großaltenstädten , Mudersbach and Niederlemp as well as the Niederweisel office in the Wetterau with the three Places Eberstadt , Nieder-Weisel and Ober-Hörgern .
Emergence
At the beginning of the 17th century there were long-running disputes within the Solms-Lich family about the distribution and administration of common property. This also included the old district of Hohensolms / Königsberg , which the House of Solms had shared with the Landgraviate of Hesse since the Middle Ages .
In 1622 Count Philipp Reinhard I von Solms managed to combine three quarters of the Lich share in Hohensolms and Königsberg in his hand. The last quarter remained in the possession of the Solms-Lich family. In 1629 the district of Hohensolms / Königsberg, which had been jointly administered by Hesse and Solms, was divided between the two sides. The newly created Koenigsberg office fell to Hessen-Darmstadt , the Hohensolm office to the Solms family. Since Count Philipp Reinhard I lost his previous residence in Butzbach at the same time , he moved his seat to Hohensolms Castle and thus became the founder of the County of Solms-Hohensolms.
Further development
During the Thirty Years' War , the county was badly affected by the effects of war and the plague . Philipp Reinhard I also died of the disease in 1635. His successors in the 17th century, Counts Philipp Reinhard II, Johann Heinrich Christian and Ludwig, failed to sustainably promote the development of the war-ravaged country. Instead, there were numerous conflicts among them with the subjects in the largely rural country, and the authorities did not shy away from acts of violence. It was primarily about the duties and duties of the subjects as well as religious conflict under Count Johann Heinrich Christian, who had converted again to Catholicism . Numerous trials of the subjects against their sovereignty before the Reich Chamber of Commerce are an expression of these conflicts. Not least because of these disputes, the area of the County of Solms-Hohensolms remained economically relatively backward and sparsely populated. It was not until the 18th century that a general upswing began under Count Friedrich Wilhelm and his son and successor Carl Christian. Under Count Friedrich Wilhelm, the previously separate areas of Solms-Hohensolms and Solms-Lich were united in 1718 to form the new county of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich. However, the residence remained in Hohensolms for around 50 years. It was not until Count Carl Christian that the family seat was relocated to the recently modernized palace in Lich at the end of the 1760s . When Carl Christian was raised to the rank of imperial prince in 1792, the county of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich became an imperial principality. It existed until the house was mediatized in 1806.
Title
The full title of the count's family members was Graf / Countess zu Solms-Hohensolms and Tecklenburg, Herr / Herrin zu Munzenberg, Wildenfels and Sonnewalde .
Regents of the House of Solms-Hohensolms
| Family tree of the house of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich | ||
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| Philipp Reinhard I (1593-1635) | ⚭ 1614 Elisabeth Countess von Wied (1593–1635) | |
| Philipp Reinhard II. (1615-1665) | ⚭ I. 1636 Anna Amalia Countess of Solms-Greifenstein (1617–1640)
⚭ II. 1642 Katharina Eleonora von Tschernembl (1622–1675) |
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| Johann Heinrich Christian (1644–1668) | ||
| Ludwig (1646–1707) | ⚭ I. 1668 Luise Countess of Dohna (1646–1687)
⚭ II. 1691 Wilhelmine Countess of Leiningen-Dachsburg (1659–1733) |
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| Friedrich Wilhelm (1682–1744) | ⚭ 1710 Wilhelmine Magdalene Countess of Isenburg-Birstein (1682–1749) | |
| Carl Christian (1725-1803) | ⚭ 1759 Sophie Charlotte Countess of Dohna-Wartenberg (1740–1798) | |
literature
- Timo Zimmermann: Hohensolms. Valley, town, municipality and district. Hohensolms 2000.