Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein was a county of the

Sauerland The Sauerland () is a rural, hilly area spreading across most of the south-eastern part of the States of Germany, German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in parts heavily forested and, apart from the major valleys, sparsely inhabited. ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein was a partition of

Sayn-Wittgenstein Sayn-Wittgenstein was a county of medieval Germany, located in the Sauerland of eastern North Rhine-Westphalia. History Sayn-Wittgenstein was created when Count Salentin of Sayn-Homburg (1314-1392), a member of the House of Sponheim, married ...

, comprising the southern portion of the Wittgenstein County. In 1657, it was partitioned into

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein was a county and later principality between Hesse-Darmstadt and Westphalia. History The county with imperial immediacy was formed by the 1657 partition of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein and raised from a county t ...

and

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Vallendar Sayn-Wittgenstein-Vallendar was a County of the Holy Roman Empire. It was created as a partition of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein, and was inherited by Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein in 1775.https://sayn.de/familiengeschichte/ Counts of Sayn-Witt ...

Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein (1607–1657)

* Louis II (1607–34) * John (1634–57)

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File:Schloss Wittgenstein (Ludorff).png, Wittgenstein Castle (near

Bad Laasphe Bad Laasphe () is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district. Geography Location The town of Bad Laasphe lies in the upper Lahn Valley, near the stately home of Wittgenstein Castle (de) (nowadays a boarding ...

) in 1903 File:Laasphe De Merian Hassiae 144.jpg, Laasphe and Wittgenstein Castle in 1655 1657 disestablishments States and territories established in 1607 {{Germany-hist-stub