Palatinate-Lützelstein
| County Palatine of Lützelstein | ||||||||||
| Pfalz-Lützelstein | ||||||||||
| State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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| Capital | La Petite-Pierre | |||||||||
| Languages | German | |||||||||
| Government | Principality | |||||||||
| Count Palatine | ||||||||||
| • | 1598 - 1611 | John Augustus | ||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | |||||||||
| • | Split from Palatinate-Veldenz |
1598 | ||||||||
| • | to Palatinate-Guttenberg | 1611 | ||||||||
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Palatinate-Lützelstein was an ephemeral state of the Holy Roman Empire based around La Petite-Pierre (German: Lützelstein), located in the Vosges Mountains, in the present-day Bas-Rhin and Moselle départements of the Grand Est region in northeastern France.
Lützelstein Castle, erected by the Counts of Blieskastel at a mountain pass to Lorraine, and the surrounding territory originally were a fief of the Bishopric of Strasbourg. Held by the elder House of Leiningen, who had accepted the suzerainty of the Electorate of the Palatinate, the lands were seized as a reverted fief by the mighty Wittelsbach Elector Palatine Frederick I upon the extinction of the Leiningen counts in 1462.
In the course of a 1553 re-arrangement of the Palatinate territories, Lützelstein was allotted to Count Palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken, who ceded the estates to his uncle Count Palatine Rupert of Veldenz. His son Count Palatine George John I of Veldenz founded the town of Phalsbourg (Pfalzburg), which he nevertheless was forced to pledge to Duke Charles III of Lorraine shortly afterwards.
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