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The Upper Rhine District ( German Oberrheinischer Kreis ) is one of the imperial counties of the Holy Roman Empire . The Upper Rhine District was created among the first six imperial counties in accordance with the decision of the Augsburg Reichstag in 1500 .
District meetings (crestagi) were held initially in Worms , and from the beginning of the 18th century in Frankfurt am Main .
Content
- 1 Territory and population of the district
- 2 District composition
- 3 notes
- 4 Sources
Territory and population of the county
The territory of the district on the map of the empire looked rather fragmented, intermittently extending from Hesse-Kassel in the north to the Duchy of Savoy in the south. In the second half of the XVII century, most of the land on the left bank of the Rhine was withdrawn from the Upper Rhine district, and along the Luneville world ( 1801 ), all the territories to the left of the Rhine belonged to the French Republic.
In the XVIII century, the population of the district amounted to 1.45 million people, of which about 74% were Protestants , about 25% were Catholics, and about 1% were Jews [1] .
District Composition
When established in 1500, the Upper Rhine District included 72 imperial territories with different legal status , of which by the 18th century only 42 remained in the district.
In 1792, the district included the following subjects of the Holy Roman Empire:
| Coat of arms | Subject | Affiliation | Transformations in 1801 - 1803 | Affiliation after 1815 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spiritual imperial estates ( German: Geistlichen Reichsständen ) | |||||
| Principality of Worms-Bishopric | Independent | Secularized | Grand Duchy of Hesse | ||
| Principality of Speyer-Bishopric | Independent | Secularized in favor of Baden | Grand Duchy of Baden | ||
| Principality of Strasbourg-Bishopric | Independent | Secularized in favor of Baden | Grand Duchy of Baden | ||
| Principality of Basel-Bishopric | Independent | Secularized in favor of Switzerland and Baden | Switzerland , Grand Duchy of Baden | ||
| Principality of Fulda-Bishopric | Independent | Secularized to the Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda | Grand Duchy of Hesse | ||
| Principality of Hytersheim | Order of Hospitallers | Secularized | Grand Duchy of Baden | ||
| Weissenburg principality probation | Principality of Speyer-Bishopric | Secularized by France | France | ||
| Prums Principality Abbey | Trier Elector (since 1576) | Secularized by France in 1794 | France | ||
| Secular imperial estates ( German: Weltlichen Reichsständen ) | |||||
| Duchy of the Palatinate Lautern | Kurpfalz (in 1592-1796) | Annexed by France in 1796 | Kingdom of Bavaria | ||
| Duchy of the Palatinate-Zimmern | Kurpfalz (from 1559) | Kingdom of Bavaria | |||
| Duchy of the Palatinate-Veldenz | Palatinate-Zweibrucken (since 1694) | Kingdom of Bavaria | |||
| Principality of Pfalz-Zweibrucken | Independent | Annexed by France in 1793 | Kingdom of Bavaria | ||
| Langrafstvo Hesse-Darmstadt | Independent | Grand Duchy of Hesse | |||
| Langrafstvo Hesse-Kassel | Independent | In 1803 converted to Elector (Kurgessen) | Kurgessen | ||
| Duchy of Savoy | Sardinian Kingdom | Sardinian Kingdom | |||
| Hersfeld County | Langrafstvo of Hesse-Kassel (since 1648) | Kurgessen | |||
| Margrave Nomeny | Duchy of Lorraine (since 1667) | Habsburg-Lorraine House | |||
| Territories without the status of imperial estate | |||||
| County Sponheim | |||||
Notes
- ↑ Peter Claus Hartmann: Regionen in der Frühen Neuzeit. Der Kurrheinische und der Oberrheinische Reichskreis. In: Michael Matheus (Hrsg.): Regionen und Föderalismus . Stuttgart 1997, C. 39
Sources
- Upper Rhine District // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Upper Rhine // sovino.ru