County of Bretzenheim

Imperial County of Bretzenheim
Imperial County of Bretzenheim; Reichsgrafschaft Bretzenheim*
	1790–1804
	Coat of arms of Bretzenheim
Status	County
Capital	Bretzenheim
Common languages	West Central German
Government	County
Historical era	Napoleonic Wars
• Partitioned from the ; Electorate of the Palatinate	; 1790 1790
• Raised to princely county	1789
• Part-mediatised to ; Hesse-Darmstadt; granted ; Cty Lindau am Bodensee	; ; 1803
• Mediatised to Austria	1804
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Electorate of the Palatinate
Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt
Archduchy of Austria
	* Later Reichsfürstentum Bretzenheim, Imperial princely county of Bretzenheim

Bretzenheim was a minor Principality in pre-Napoleonic Germany. It was created in 1790 for Charles Augustus of the line of Wittelsbach-Bretzenheim. Its territory in central Germany was mediatised to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1803, and its territory north of Lake Constance was mediatised to Austria in 1804.

Prince of Bretzenheim

Charles Augustus (1790–1804)

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