The County of Vest Recklinghausen was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, located north of Essen and Dortmund south of the Lippe River. The Holy Roman Empire ( HRE; German Heiliges Römisches Reich (HRR, Latin Sacrum Romanum Imperium (SRI was a union of territories in Essen (ˈɛsən is a City in the center of the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Dortmund (ˈdɔʁtmʊnt is a City in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. The Lippe (ˈlɪpə is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Vest Recklinghausen was part of the Electorate of Cologne, although it was ruled by local governors which resided in Herten. The Electorate of Cologne (Kurfürstentum Köln or Kurköln) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire and existed from the 10th to the early 19th Herten is a town and a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The governorship was pawned in 1576. Vest Recklinghausen was annexed to Arenberg in 1802, the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1811, and was included in the Prussian Province of Westphalia in 1815. Arenberg (also spelled as Aremberg or Ahremberg) is a historic County, Principality and finally Duchy located in modern Berg was a medieval territory in today's North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state The Province of Westphalia (Provinz Westfalen was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1815-1946
History
The territory of Vest Recklinghausen was annexed by the Archbishops of Cologne in the early 12th century. The first historical mention of the County occurred in 1228. In 1446 the Lords of Gemen were appointed governors of the territory, and when their house became extinct it passed to Schauenburg and Holstein-Pinneberg who pawned the territory back to the Archbishops in 1576. Gemen was an immediate Sovereign lordship of the Holy Roman Empire, in the Lower Rhine region The Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein were titles of the Holy Roman Empire. The Dukes of Arenberg annexed the territory in 1802 at the beginning of the mediatisation. Arenberg (also spelled as Aremberg or Ahremberg) is a historic County, Principality and finally Duchy located in modern The German Mediatisation was the series of mediatisations and secularisations that occurred in Germany in 1795 &ndash 1814, during They held the County until 1810, when Napoleon Bonaparte of France annexed the entire Duchy as part of the Continental Blockade. Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the History of Europe. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The Continental System was the Foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the It was attached to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1811, and was conquered by the Prussians in 1813. Vest Recklinghausen was abolished in 1815 when it was incorporated into the newly created province of Westphalia.
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