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Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Historic state of Germany

Field	Value
native_name	de
conventional_long_name	County (Principality) of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
common_name	Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
era	Early modern period
status	Vassal
status_text	State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806),
State of the Confederation of the Rhine,
State of the German Confederation,
State of the North German Confederation,
State of the German Empire,
State of the Weimar Republic
empire	Holy Roman Empire
government_type	Principality
title_leader	Prince
leader1	Louis Frederick I (first)
year_leader1	1710–1718
leader2	Günther Victor (last)
year_leader2	1890–1918
legislature	Landtag
year_start	1599
year_end	1918
event_start	Emerged from
Schwarzburg
event1	Raised to Principality
date_event1	1711
event_end	German Revolution
event_post	Merged into Thuringia
date_post	1920
p1	County of Schwarzburg
flag_p1	Flagge Fürstentümer Schwarzburg.svg
s1	State of Thuringia (1920–1952)Thuringia
flag_s1	Flag of Thuringia (state).svg
image_flag	Flagge Fürstentümer Schwarzburg.svg
image_coat	Coat of Arms of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.svg
image_map	Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in the German Reich (1871).svg
image_map_caption	Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt within the German Empire
image_map2	Locator County of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1680).svg
image_map2_caption	Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt within Thuringia
capital	Rudolstadt
stat_year1	1835
stat_pop1	58,000
stat_year2	1848
stat_pop2	62,000
demonym		area_km2=	area_rank=	GDP_PPP=	GDP_PPP_year=	HDI=	HDI_year=	today=Germany

State of the Confederation of the Rhine, State of the German Confederation, State of the North German Confederation, State of the German Empire, State of the Weimar Republic Schwarzburg

Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a small historic state (1599–1918) in present-day Thuringia, Germany, with its capital at Rudolstadt.

History

Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was established in 1599 in the course of a restructuring of Schwarzburg dynasty lands. The ancestral seat of the comital family was the 11th-century Schwarzburg Castle, although in 1571 the seat moved to the larger town of Rudolstadt. In 1583 Count Günther XLI of Schwarzburg, the eldest son of Günther XL the Rich and ruler over the united Schwarzburg lands, died without issue. He was succeeded by his younger brothers, with Albert VII receiving the territory around Rudolstadt. After their brother William I, Count of Schwarzburg-Frankenhausen died in 1597, the surviving brothers Albert VII and John Günther I established the two counties of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen by the 1599 Treaty of Stadtilm.

Albert's descendants ruled as sovereign counts of the Holy Roman Empire. Count Albert Anton (1662–1710) was elevated to the rank of a prince by Emperor Leopold I; it was however his son Louis Frederick I (1710–1718) who first bore the princely title, whereby Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1711 became a principality under the same entity. It withstood mediatisation and after the empire's dissolution joined the Confederation of the Rhine in 1807 and the German Confederation in 1815.

In 1905 Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt had an area of 940 km2 and a population of 97,000.

On 23 November 1918, during the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the fall of all the German monarchies, Prince Günther Victor was the last to abdicate. The former principality became the Free State of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1919 and joined the Weimar Republic as a constituent state. In 1920, it joined with other small states in the area to form the new state of Thuringia.

File:Schloss Schwarzburg 1900.jpg|The castle at Schwarzburg File:Treppsteinblick 1900.jpg|Aerial view of Schwarzburg File:Heidecksburg.jpg|Heidecksburg residence at Rudolstadt

Rulers of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Counts of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

1574–1605: Count Albrecht VII (1537–1605), son of Count Günther XL of Schwarzburg, founder of the county (state) of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
1605–1630: Count Charles Günther I (1576–1630), succeeded by younger brother Louis Günther I
1612–1634 Count Albrecht Günther (1582–1634)
1630–1646: Count Louis Günther I (1581–1646)
1646–1662: Regent Emilie of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst (1614–70)
1662–1710: Count Albert Anton (1641–1710)

Princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

1710–1718: Prince Louis Frederick I (1667–1718)
1718–1744: Prince Frederick Anton (1692–1744)
1744–1767: Prince John Frederick (1721–67)
1767–1790: Prince Louis Günther II (1708–90)
1790–1793: Prince Frederick Charles (1736–93)
1793–1807: Prince Louis Frederick II (1767–1807)
1807–1814: Regent Caroline Louise of Hesse-Homburg (1771–1854)
1814–1867: Prince Frederick Günther (1793–1867)
1867–1869: Prince Albert (1798–1869)
1869–1890: Prince Georg Albert (1838–90)
1890–1918: Prince Günther Victor (1852–1925), also succeeded as Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen in 1909 upon the death of Prince Karl Günther.

References

. (1835). "The Metropolitan Magazine Volume 14". *Saunders and Otley*.
. (1848). "A Pictorial Geography of the World: Comprising a System of Universal Geography, Popular and Scientific". *C.D. Strong*.
"Rudolstadt in Thüringen".

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