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Principality of Leiningen
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The Principality of Leiningen (German: Fürstentum Leiningen) was a short-lived principality ruled by the Prince of Leiningen.[1] It was created in 1803 as part of compensation for the House of Leiningen losing land to France but was mediatized three years later to become part of the Grand Duchy of Baden.[2]
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The principality emerged in 1803 in the course of secularization and was created when the princely branch of the House of Leiningen, which had been raised to the rank of a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1779, was deprived of its lands on the left bank of the Rhine by France, namely at Dagsburg, Hardenburg and Dürkheim, and subsequently received the secularized Amorbach Abbey as an ample compensation in 1803.[3] The Principality was also given Adersbach and Rohrbach as compensation for the loss of land on the left bank of the River Rhein due to the collapse of the Electoral Palatinate.[4]
The sovereignty of Leiningen was viewed to have improved the economy of the villages within it, with Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, 1st Prince of Leiningen engaging in a construction and road widening programme due to the economic boom.[1] A few years later, the Principality of Leiningen was mediatized to become part of the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806.[2] Following the mediatization, it was viewed to have worsened the economic situation in Leiningen, that by 1808 the local Amorbach schoolteacher was having to ask Prince Carl personally for firewood to heat the school and have access to a room to lock it away in due to the risk of theft.[1] Its territory is now included mainly in Baden-Württemberg, but partly in Bavaria and in Hesse. Amorbach Abbey is still today the family seat of the Prince of Leiningen.[5]
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