Isenburg-Birstein

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Coat of arms of Isennburg-Birstein

Isenburg-Birstein was the name of two German historical states centred on Birstein in southeastern Hesse, Germany.

## History

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The first "Isenburg-Birstein" was a County and was created as a partition of Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein in 1628. It was merged into Isenburg-Offenbach in 1664.

The second "Isenburg-Birstein" was a Principality, created as a partition of Isenburg-Offenbach in 1711. It was renamed the "Principality of Isenburg" in 1806.

## Counts and Princes of Isenburg-Birstein

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Main article: County of Isenburg

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Upper Rhenish Circle (1500–1806) of the Holy Roman Empire

Ecclesiastical|

* Basel
* Fulda
* Hersfeld
* Metz1
* Odenheim–Bruchsal
* Prüm
* Speyer
* Straßburg
* Toul1
* Verdun1
* Weißenburg
* Worms

Secular|

* Bar
* Heitersheim
* Hersfeld
* Hesse
* Darmstadt
* Homburg
* Kassel
* Marburg
* Rheinfels
* Isenburg-Birstein
* Lautern
* Lorraine2
* Nassau
* Idstein
* Ottweiler
* Saarbrücken
* Usingen
* Weilburg
* Salm
* Kyrburg
* Salm
* Savoy
* Simmern
* Solms-Braunfels
* Sponheim3
* Veldenz
* Waldeck3
* Zweibrücken

Counts / Lords|

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Imp. Diet
seats|

* Hanau
* Lichtenberg
* Münzenberg4
* Isenburg
* Birstein
* Büdingen
* Büdingen-Birstein
* Königstein
* Mainz
* Stolberg
* Kriechingen
* Leiningen
* Dagsburg
* Hardenburg
* Westerburg
* Salm
* Grehweiler
* Grumbach
* Solms
* Hohensolms
* Laubach
* Lich
* Rödelheim
* Wetterau
* Wittgenstein
* Berleburg
* Wittgenstein

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Without|

* Bretzenheim
* Dagstuhl
* Falkenstein
* Isenburg
* Meerholz
* Wächtersbach
* Mensfelden
* Olbrück
* Reipoltskirchen
* Salm-Dhaun
* Wartenberg

Cities|

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* Colmar
* Hagenau
* Kaisersberg
* Landau
* Mülhausen5
* Münster im Elsaß
* Oberehnheim
* Rosheim
* Schlettstadt
* Türkheim
* Weißenburg

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Others|

* Frankfurt
* Friedberg
* Metz
* Speyer
* Straßburg
* Toul
* Verdun
* Wetzlar
* Worms

1 Part of the Three Bishoprics. 2 Nomeny after 1737. 3 without Reichstag seat. 4 until 1736. 5 Joined Swiss 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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