Native Name: | Grafschaft Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim |
Conventional Long Name: | County of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim |
Common Name: | Solms-Rodelheim-Assenheim |
Era: | Middle Ages |
Status: | Vassal |
Empire: | Holy Roman Empire |
Government Type: | Principality |
Year Start: | 1635 |
Year End: | 1806 |
Life Span: | 1635–1699 1722–1728 1778–1806 |
Event Start: | Union of S-Rödelheim and S-Assenheim |
Event1: | Repartitioned in twain |
Date Event1: | 1699 |
Event2: | Reunited |
Date Event2: | 1722 |
Event3: | Repartitioned |
Date Event3: | 1728 |
Event4: | Reunited |
Date Event4: | 1778 |
Event End: | Mediatised to Hesse- -Kassel and -Darmstadt |
P1: | Solms-Assenheim |
P2: | Solms-Rödelheim |
S1: | Grand Duchy of Hesse |
Flag S1: | Flagge Großherzogtum Hessen ohne Wappen.svg |
S2: | Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel |
Flag S2: | Flag of Hesse.svg |
Capital: | Rödelheim |
Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim was a County of southern Hesse and eastern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The House of Solms[1] had its origins at Solms, Hesse.
Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim was thrice created by a union of the Counts of Solms-Assenheim and Solms-Rödelheim, and on the first two occasions repartitioned into those statelets. Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim was mediatised to Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) and Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806.
Ludwig Heinrich, Count 1722-1728 (1667-1728), third surviving son of Johann August, inherited Assenheim 1699, Rödelheim 1722