County Palatine of Veldenz
County Palatine of Veldenz | |||||||||
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| 1112–1797 | |||||||||
Veldenz c. 1400 | |||||||||
| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Veldenz | ||||||||
| Common languages | Moselle Franconian | ||||||||
| Government | County | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Established | 1112 | ||||||||
• Counts of Veldenz-Geroldseck | 1277 | ||||||||
• Inherited by House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken | 1444 | ||||||||
• Joined Upper Rhenish Circle | 1500 | ||||||||
• Counts of Palatinate-Veldenz | 1543 | ||||||||
• To Palatinate-Zweibrücken | 1694 | ||||||||
| 1797 | |||||||||
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The County Palatine of Veldenz was a principality in the contemporary Land Rhineland-Palatinate with full voting rights to the Reichstag. The county was located partially between Kaiserslautern, Sponheim and Zweibrücken, partially on the Mosel in the Archbishopric of Trier. A municipality of the same name, Veldenz, and a castle, Schloss Veldenz, are located in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich.