Wied-Runkel was a small German sovereign state. Wied-Runkel was located around the town and castle of
Runkel
Runkel is a town on the river Lahn in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Runkel lies in the Lahn Valley on both sides of the river between the Westerwald and the Taunus, some eight kilometres east of Limburg.
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, located on the
Lahn River
The Lahn is a , right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km).
It has its source in ...
. It extended from the town of
Runkel
Runkel is a town on the river Lahn in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Runkel lies in the Lahn Valley on both sides of the river between the Westerwald and the Taunus, some eight kilometres east of Limburg.
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to further north of
Schupbach, but also held an exclave east of
Villmar.
Wied-Runkel was a partition of
Wied, and was raised from a County to a Principality in 1791. Wied-Runkel was
mediatised to
Nassau.
Counts of Wied-Runkel (1698–1791)
* 1698–1699: Johann Friederich Wilhelm von Wied-Runkel († 1698)
* 1692–1706: Maximilian Heinrich von Wied-Runkel († 1706), his grandson
* 1706–1762: Johann Ludwig Adolph von Wied-Runkel († 1762), his son
* 1762–1791: Christian Ludwig von Wied-Runkel († 1791), his son
Princes of Wied-Runkel (1791–1806)
* 1791–1791: Christian Ludwig von Wied-Runkel († 1791)
* 1791–1806: Karl Ludwig Friedrich Alexander († 1824), his son, until 1806, demoted to the rank of State Lord, with the titles of Prince of Wied and Lord of Runkel
References
*Wirtz, L.: ''Die Grafen von Wied'', Nassauische Annalen 48 (1927), 65;
*Gensicke, H.: ''Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes'', 1958.
1698 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
1806 disestablishments in the Holy Roman Empire
States and territories established in 1698
Former monarchies of Europe
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