Imperial County of Bretzenheim

Imperial County of Bretzenheim
Reichsgrafschaft Bretzenheim*
State of the Holy Roman Empire
1790–1804
Coat of arms of Bretzenheim
Capital		Bretzenheim
Languages		West Central German
Government		Principality
Historical era		Napoleonic Wars
•	Partitioned from the     Electorate of the Palatinate	1790 1790
•	Raised to princely county	1789
•	Part-mediatised to     Hesse-Darmstadt; granted     Cty Lindau am Bodensee	1803
•	Mediatised to Austria	1804
Preceded by Succeeded by Electorate of the Palatinate Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt Archduchy of Austria
* Later Reichsfürstentum Bretzenheim, Imperial princely county of Bretzenheim

Bretzenheim was a minor Principality in pre-Napoleonic Germany. It was created in 1790 for Charles Augustus of the line of Wittelsbach-Bretzenheim. Its territory in central Germany was mediatised to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1803, and its territory north of Lake Constance was mediatised to Austria in 1804.

Prince of Bretzenheim

• Charles Augustus (1790–1804)