HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a small historic state in present-day Thuringia, Germany, with its capital at Rudolstadt.


History

Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was established in 1599 in the course of a resettlement of Schwarzburg dynasty lands. Since the 11th century, the ancestral seat of the comital family had been at Schwarzburg Castle, though after 1340, for most of its existence as a polity had the capital at the larger town of Rudolstadt. In 1583 Count Günther XLI of Schwarzburg, the eldest son of Günther XL the Rich and ruler over the united Schwarzburg lands, had died without issue. He was succeeded by his younger brothers, whereby Albert VII received the territory around Rudolstadt. After their brother Count William of Schwarzburg- Frankenhausen had died in 1597, the surviving brothers Albert VII and John Günther I established the two counties of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen by the 1599 Treaty of Stadtilm. Albert's descendants ruled as sovereign
counts Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New York ...
of the Holy Roman Empire. Count Albert Anton (1662–1710) was elevated to the rank of a Prince by Emperor
Leopold I of Habsburg Leopold I (Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Franz Felician; hu, I. Lipót; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria An ...
; it was however his son Louis Frederick I (1710–1718) who first bore the princely title, whereby Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1711 became a principality under the same entity. It withstood
mediatisation Mediatization or mediatisation may refer to: * German mediatisation, German historical territorial restructuring * Mediatization (media) Mediatization (or medialization) is a process whereby the mass media influence other sectors of society, includ ...
and after the Empire's dissolution joined the
Confederation of the Rhine The Confederated States of the Rhine, simply known as the Confederation of the Rhine, also known as Napoleonic Germany, was a confederation of German client states established at the behest of Napoleon some months after he defeated Austria a ...
in 1807 and the
German Confederation The German Confederation (german: Deutscher Bund, ) was an association of 39 predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe. It was created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as a replacement of the former Holy Roman Empire, w ...
in 1815. In 1905 Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt had an area of and a population of 97,000. On 23 November 1918, during the
German Revolution of 1918–1919 The German Revolution or November Revolution (german: Novemberrevolution) was a civil conflict in the German Empire at the end of the First World War that resulted in the replacement of the German federal constitutional monarchy with a d ...
and the fall of all the
German monarchies This is a list of monarchs who ruled over East Francia, and the Kingdom of Germany (''Regnum Teutonicum''), from the division of the Frankish Empire in 843 and the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 until the collapse of the German Empi ...
, Prince Günther Victor was the last to abdicate. The former principality became a "Free State" in 1919 and joined the
Weimar Republic The Weimar Republic (german: link=no, Weimarer Republik ), officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is al ...
as a constituent state. In 1920, it joined with other small states in the area to form the new state of Thuringia. File:Schloss Schwarzburg 1900.jpg, The castle at Schwarzburg File:Treppsteinblick 1900.jpg, Aerial view of Schwarzburg File:Heidecksburg.jpg, Heidecksburg residence at Rudolstadt


Rulers of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt


Counts of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

* 1574–1605: Count
Albrecht VII Albert VII may refer to: * Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (1559–1621) * Albert VII, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow Albrecht VII, the Handsome, Duke of Mecklenburg in Güstrow (25 July 1486 – 5 January 1547), was a minor ruler in North Germa ...
(1537–1605), son of Count Günther XL of Schwarzburg, founder of the county (state) of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt * 1605–1630: Count Charles Günther I (1576–1630), succeeded by younger brother Louis Günther I * 1612–1634 Count Albrecht Günther (1582–1634) * 1630–1646: Count Louis Günther I (1581–1646) * 1646–1662: Regent
Emilie of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst Emilie Antonia of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst (15 June 1614 in Delmenhorst – 4 December 1670 in Rudolstadt), was Princess consort of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and then regent of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt during the minority of her son Albert Anton from ...
(1614–70) * 1662–1710: Count Albert Anton (1641–1710)


Princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

* 1710–1718: Prince Louis Frederick I (1667–1718) * 1718–1744: Prince Frederick Anton (1692–1744) * 1744–1767: Prince John Frederick (1721–67) * 1767–1790: Prince Louis Günther II (1708–90) * 1790–1793: Prince Frederick Charles (1736–93) * 1793–1807: Prince Louis Frederick II (1767–1807) * 1807–1814: Regent Caroline Louise of Hesse-Homburg (1771–1854) * 1814–1867: Prince Frederick Günther (1793–1867) * 1867–1869: Prince
Albert Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia * Albert Productions, a record label * Alber ...
(1798–1869) * 1869–1890: Prince Georg Albert (1838–90) * 1890–1918: Prince Günther Victor (1852–1925), also succeeded as Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen in 1909 upon the death of Prince Karl Günther.


Heads of the princely house of Schwarzburg post-monarchy

On the death of the childless Prince Günther Victor in 1925, he was succeeded by Prince Sizzo (1860–1926), who was the son of Prince Friedrich Günther (1793–1867) from his second, morganatic marriage. Prince Sizzo was recognised as a full member of the House of Schwarzburg in 1896. He was succeeded in 1926 by his son, Prince Friedrich Günther (1901–1971). Upon the death in 1971 of Prince Friedrich Günther, the last in the male line, his elder sister, Princess Marie Antoinette of Schwarzburg, who married Friedrich Magnus V, Count of
Solms-Wildenfels Solms-Wildenfels was a minor County around Wildenfels in south-western Saxony, Germany. The House of Solms had its origins at Solms, Hesse. Solms-Wildenfels was a partition of Solms-Baruth. In 1741 it was partitioned between itself and Solms ...
, could have had a claim to the headship under semi-Salic primogeniture.James, John ''Almanach de Gotha, Volume I'', 2013. * 1918–1925: Prince Günther Victor (1852–1925) * 1925–1926: Prince Sizzo (1860–1926) * 1926–1971: Prince Friedrich Günther (1901–1971)


See also

* House of Schwarzburg


References


External links


House laws of Schwarzburg
* {{Authority control 1599 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire 1919 disestablishments in Germany Rudolstadt States and territories disestablished in 1919 States and territories established in 1599 States of the Confederation of the Rhine States of the German Confederation States of the German Empire States of the North German Confederation States of the Weimar Republic