Hohnstein County
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Was a county of the Holy Roman Empire.
Establishment
- January 1181: Hohnstein County gains imperial immediacy.
Chronology
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1. Events
- January 1254: Hohnstein county acquired Klettenberg as fief of the Bishopric of Halberstadt.
- January 1301: The Counts of Hohnstein bought this castle from the Counts of Beichlingen around 1260-1300 and established an independent county.
- January 1379: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire in the XIV century.
- January 1419: As Count Dietrich IX. von Hohnstein (Hohnstein-Kelbra-Heringen line) died in 1417, parts of the town fell to the Counts of Schwarzburg and the Counts of Stolberg.
- January 1594: In 1593 the county of Hohnstein passed to Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
Disestablishment
- January 1633: Hohnstein County falls to Brunswick.
Selected Sources
- Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 30-31