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Bailiwick of the Archbishopric of Mainz; Lordship (County) of Rieneck
Vogtei des Mainzer Erzstift; Herrschaft (Grafschaft) Rieneck
before 1100–1559 1673–1806
Coat of arms
Status
State of the Holy Roman Empire
Capital
Lohr
Government
County
Historical era
Middle Ages
• First mention of Rieneck
c. 790
• County established
before 1100
• Court of Louis I, Count of Loon
from 1168
• Granted city rights by Emperor Louis IV
1333
• Comital line extinct
1559
• Purchased by Count of Nostitz
1673
• Mediatised to Aschaffenburg
1806
• Granted to Bavaria
1815
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Electorate of Mainz
Principality of Aschaffenburg
The County of Rieneck was a comital domain within the Holy Roman Empire that lay in what is now northwestern Bavaria (in the west of Lower Franconia). It bore the same name as its original ruling family, the Counts of Rieneck, from whom the county and its main seat, the town of Rieneck, got their names.
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mediatised during the establishment of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806–07, by France in 1810, or by the Congress of Vienna in 1814–15. The mediatised...
8th century, and by the time of its first documentary mention in 1295 it was already the main centre of the CountyofRieneck. In 1333 Lohr was granted town...
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