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County of Solms

Solms
Coat of arms of Solms
Coat of arms
Solms   is located in Germany
Solms
Solms
Coordinates: 50°32′23″N 08°24′26″E / 50.53972°N 8.40722°E / 50.53972; 8.40722Coordinates: 50°32′23″N 08°24′26″E / 50.53972°N 8.40722°E / 50.53972; 8.40722
Country Germany
State Hesse
Admin. region Gießen
District Lahn-Dill-Kreis
Government
 • Mayor Frank Inderthal (SPD)
Area
 • Total 34.05 km2 (13.15 sq mi)
Elevation 144 m (472 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
 • Total 13,456
 • Density 400/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 35606
Dialling codes 06442
Vehicle registration LDK
Website www.solms.de
County of Solms
Grafschaft Solms
State of the Holy Roman Empire
1129–1258
Capital Solms
Government Principality
Historical era Middle Ages
 •  Established 1129
 •  Partitioned to S-Braunfels
    and S-Burg-Solms
 
1258 1258
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchy of Franconia Duchy of Franconia
Solms-Braunfels Solms
Solms-Burg-Solms Solms
Full style: Count of Solms, Lord of Münzenberg, Wildenfels and Sonnenwalde
County of Solms: Town of Solms
Grafschaft Solms-Burg-Solms
State of the Holy Roman Empire
1258–1415
Capital Solms
Government Principality
Historical era Middle Ages
 •  Partitioned from Solms 1258
 •  Annexed to S-Braunfels 1415
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Solms County of Solms
Solms-Braunfels Solms

Solms is a town west of Wetzlar in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hessen, Germany.

In the constituent community of Burgsolms once stood the ancestral castle of the Counts and Princes of Solms.

Solms lies right in the Lahn valley and is nestled between the foothills of both the Taunus and Westerwald at heights from 140 to 400 m above sea level. It is about 7 km west of Wetzlar and 30 km northeast of Limburg an der Lahn.

Solms borders in the north on the community of Ehringshausen and the town of Aßlar, in the east on the town of Wetzlar, in the south on the community of Schöffengrund, and in the west on the town of Leun (all in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis).

The town consists of the following centres:

Solms had its first documentary mention in 788 in a donation document from the Lorsch Monastery. The villages that nowadays form the town of Solms belonged for centuries to the County of Solms, an independent state within the Holy Roman Empire, elevated to a county in 1223, until it was dissolved in 1806. The still existing lines of the House of Solms are the princely branches of Solms-Braunfels with their seat in Braunfels, Solms-Hohensolms-Lich with their seat in Lich and Solms-Baruth, furthermore the Counts of Solms-Laubach with their seat in Laubach, Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim with their seat in Assenheim, Solms-Sonnewalde and Solms-Wildenfels. The Burgsolms castle at Solms, ancestral seat of the family since around 1100, was destroyed in 1384 by a coalition of nearby towns under the leadership of Wetzlar, forcing count John to move to Greifenstein castle.


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