• Divided between Baden, Palatinate-Simmern-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld and the Electoral Palatinate
1437
• Joined Upper Rhenish Imperial Circle
1500
• Annexed by the First French Empire
1804
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Rhenish Franconia
Duchy of Lorraine
Kingdom of Prussia
Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
Kingdom of Bavaria
Historic map of the left bank of the Rhine in 1692 - including the County of Sponheim
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