- Source: Solms-Laubach
Solms-Laubach was a County of southern Hesse and eastern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The House of Solms had its origins in Solms, Hesse.
History
Solms-Laubach was originally created as a partition of Solms-Lich. In 1537 Philip, Count of Solms-Lich, ruling count at Lich, purchased the Herrschaft Sonnewalde in Lower Lusatia which he left to his younger son Otto of Solms-Laubach (1496–1522), together with the county of Laubach. While Lich and Laubach were counties with imperial immediacy, Sonnewalde remained a semi-independent state country within the March of Lusatia (the latter being an immediate state of the Holy Roman Empire). A later Count Otto (1550–1612) moved to Sonnewalde and built the castle in 1582. In 1596 he also purchased the nearby Herrschaft of Baruth which was also elevated to a state country within the March of Lusatia. The branch then was divided into the twigs of Solms-Laubach, Solms-Sonnewalde and Solms-Baruth.
Solms-Laubach partitioned between itself and Solms-Sonnenwalde in 1561; between itself, Solms-Baruth and Solms-Rödelheim 1607; and between itself and Solms-Sonnenwalde 1627. Solms-Laubach inherited Solms-Sonnenwalde in 1615. With the death of Count Charles Otto in 1676, it was inherited by Solms-Baruth and recreated as a partition in 1696. Solms-Laubach was mediatised to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806.
The counts of Solms-Laubach still own Laubach Castle and Arnsburg Abbey. Until 1935, Münzenberg Castle also belonged to the estate.
Counts of Solms-Laubach
= First creation: 1544–1676
=Frederick Magnus I (1544–61)
John George (1561–1600)
Albert Otto I (1600–10)
Albert Otto II (1610–56)
Charles Otto (1656–76)
= Second creation: 1696–1806
=Frederick Ernest (1696–1723)
Christian Augustus (1723–84), with...
Frederick Magnus II (1723–38)
Frederick Louis Christian (1784–1806)
= Mediatized
=References
Literature
Rudolph zu Solms-Laubach: Geschichte des Grafen- und Fürstenhauses Solms. Adelmann, Frankfurt am Main 1865
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Monika dari Solms-Laubach
- Provinsi Jülich-Cleves-Berg
- Marie Karoline
- Medali Linnean
- Melchior Treub
- Donata dari Castell-Rüdenhausen
- Pangeran Ernest Augustus dari Hannover (1914–1987)
- Karl II dari Pfalz
- Daftar kota di Jerman
- Liselotte dari Pfalz
- Solms-Laubach
- Countess Monika zu Solms-Laubach
- Sophie of Solms-Laubach
- Agnes of Solms-Laubach
- Laubach
- Amalie of Solms-Braunfels
- Frederick Magnus I, Count of Solms-Laubach
- Prince Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels
- Hermann zu Solms-Laubach
- Wilhelm, Prince of Solms-Braunfels
