The term Upper Hesse (German: Provinz Oberhessen) originally referred to the southern possessions of the Landgraviate of Hesse, which were initially geographically separated from the more northerly Lower Hesse by the County of Ziegenhain [de].
Later, it became the name of one of the three provinces in the Grand Duchy of Hesse (and the People's State of Hesse after World War I), which was located within the historical region; the other two were Starkenburg (capital: Darmstadt) and Rhenish Hesse (capital: Mainz). Its territory covered the area of land north of the River Main. The provincial capital and largest town of the rural provinces was the university town of Gießen.
The term UpperHesse (German: Provinz Oberhessen) originally referred to the southern possessions of the Landgraviate of Hesse, which were initially geographically...
This is a list of monarchs of Hesse (German: Hessen) during the history of Hesse on west-central Germany. These monarchs belonged to a dynasty collectively...
Hesse or Hessia (German: Hessen [ˈhɛsn̩] ), officially the State of Hesse (German: Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden...
of UpperHesse was Anna of Katzenelnbogen (1443–1494) who married Henry III in 1458. One could say that Anna of Brunswick was a Landgravine of Upper Hesse...
of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) and Hesse-Darmstadt. In the early 19th century, the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel was elevated to Elector of Hesse (1803)...
1311, and again from 1458, the landgraviate was divided into UpperHesse and Lower Hesse. Hesse was re-unified under Landgrave William II in 1500. The Landgraviate...
victory going to Hesse-Cassel. In the aftermath, UpperHesse was divided and parts of its territory went to the now stronger Hesse-Cassel. During the...
This article is about the history of Hesse. Hesse is a state in Germany. In the Paleolithic Era, the Central Hessian region around Wetzlar was settled...
was born on 4 July 1473 into the Hesse noble family, was the younger daughter of Henry III, Landgrave of UpperHesse and his wife, Anna of Katzenelnbogen...
World War II: The part of the People's State of Hesse that lay east of the Rhine: the provinces of UpperHesse (Oberhessen, capital: Gießen) and Starkenburg...
of Nassau if the branch of Elisabeth's father Henry III, Landgrave of UpperHesse would go extinct. At the eventual marriage treaty between John and Elisabeth...
west of the Upper Rhine river that were part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and its successor in the Weimar Republic, the People's State of Hesse from 1816...
Bavaria, 14 from Baden, six from Hesse-Darmstadt (additionally to the three Reichstag members in the province of UpperHesse), and 17 from Württemberg. Most...
of Hesse, which was separated until 1450 from the so-called "upper principality" (later UpperHesse) by the comital lands of Ziegenhain. Lower Hesse was...
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