County of Schaumburg
County of Schaumburg | |||||||||||
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| 1110–1640 | |||||||||||
Map of the two successor territories Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe and County of Schaumburg Hessian share from 1866 | |||||||||||
| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
| Capital | Rinteln | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Northern Low Saxon | ||||||||||
| Government | County | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||
• Established | 1110 | ||||||||||
| 1640 | |||||||||||
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The County of Schaumburg (German: Grafschaft Schaumburg), until ca. 1485 known as Schauenburg, was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the present German state of Lower Saxony. Its territory was more or less congruent with the present district Landkreis Schaumburg.