County of Bretzenheim

Imperial County of Bretzenheim
Reichsgrafschaft Bretzenheim*
1790–1804
Coat of arms of Bretzenheim
StatusCounty
CapitalBretzenheim
Common languagesWest Central German
Historical eraNapoleonic Wars
 Partitioned from the
    Electorate of the Palatinate
 
1790 1790
 Raised to princely county
1789
 Part-mediatised to
    Hesse-Darmstadt; granted
    County of Lindau am Bodensee
 
 
1803
 Mediatised to Austria
1804
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Electorate of the Palatinate
Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt
Archduchy of Austria
* Later Reichsfürstentum Bretzenheim, Imperial princely county of Bretzenheim

Bretzenheim was a minor principality in pre-Napoleonic Germany. It was created in 1790 for Prince Charles Augustus (1769-1823) of the line of Wittelsbach-Bretzenheim, illegitimate son of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria and Palatinate and Josepha von Heydeck.