Holstein-Pinneberg Explained

Native Name:
Conventional Long Name:County of Holstein-Pinneberg
County of Schauenburg and Holstein-Pinneberg
Common Name:Holstein-Pinneberg
Era:Middle Ages
Status:Imperial county
Empire:Holy Roman Empire
Year Start:1290
Year End:1640
Event Start:Division of Holstein-Itzehoe following death of Gerhard I
Image Map Caption:Holstein-Pinneberg and neighbouring territories around 1400
Government Type:Monarchy
Title Leader:Counts of Schauenburg
Capital:Pinneberg
House1:House of Schauenburg
Religion:Rom. Catholic to 1561,
then mainly Lutheran,
Calvinist from 1601 and
Jewish from 1621, esp. in Altona
Common Languages:Northern Low Saxon, German
P1:Holstein-Itzehoe
S1:Holstein-Glückstadt
Flag S1:Holstein Arms.svg
Today:Germany
Event End:Usurpation in 1640 after the comital male line died out

The County of Holstein-Pinneberg, also known as the County of Schauenburg and Holstein-Pinneberg, was a small territory which existed from 1290 until 1640, centred around Pinneberg in modern-day Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Rise and fall of the county

Holstein-Pinneberg was one of the territories partitioned from the County of Holstein-Itzehoe (the others being Holstein-Rendsburg and Holstein-Plön) following the death of Gerhard I. This resulted in the Pinneberg line of the Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein, who were called Holstein-Pinneberg or Holstein-Schauenburg. The Schauenburgs (later, on the Weser, called the Schaumburgs) ruled over the County of Schaumburg (which became a principality in 1620) and over Holstein-Pinneberg.

In 1375, Prince-Archbishop Albert II of Bremen mortgaged the Haseldorfer Marsh to Adolphus VII. The prince-archbishop of Bremen later failed to redeem the mortgage, and the Haseldorfer Marsh has been part of Holstein ever since. Whereas in 1537 Christian III of Denmark introduced the Reformation in all his four realms, Denmark, Duchy of Holstein, Norway and Schleswig, Holstein-Pinneberg remained Catholic until 1559. After the Schaumburgs died out in 1640 (the other lines in Holstein had already died out by 1459) the County of Schaumburg was divided and the County of Holstein-Pinneberg was absorbed into what was now the Duchy of Holstein (formerly the County of Holstein-Rendsburg). In 1650, the County of Rantzau was created from the northern third of the territory.

Counts of Holstein-Pinneberg

The following counts ruled over Schaumburg and Holstein-Pinneberg:

References

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