Stolberg-Stolberg
| County of Stolberg-Stolberg | ||||||||||||||||
| Grafschaft Stolberg-Stolberg | ||||||||||||||||
| State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||||||||
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| Capital | Stolberg | |||||||||||||||
| Government | Principality | |||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||||||||
| • | Division of Stolberg | 19 March 1548 | ||||||||||||||
| • | Creation of Stolberg-Wernigerode |
31 May 1645 | ||||||||||||||
| • | Creation of Stolberg-Rossla |
1706 | ||||||||||||||
| • | Under Vogterei of the Electorate of Saxony |
1730–38 |
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| • | Mediatised to Saxony | 1803 | ||||||||||||||
| • | Awarded to Prussia | 1815 | ||||||||||||||
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Stolberg-Stolberg was a county of the Holy Roman Empire located in the southern Harz region. Its capital was the town of Stolberg, now in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was ruled by a branch of the House of Stolberg.
In 1429, the County of Wernigerode passed to the Counts of Stolberg, who ruled Wernigerode through a personal union. In 1548, the line was split between a Harz line (Stolberg-Stolberg) and a Rhenish line which had possessions in Rochefort (Stolberg-Rochefort) and Königstein im Taunus (Stolberg-Königstein).
With the death of Count Wolf Georg zu Stolberg in 1631, Stolberg-Stolberg was inherited by members of the Rhenish line. On 31 May 1645, Stolberg-Stolberg was divided between a senior Stolberg-Wernigerode line and a junior Stolberg-Stolberg line. In 1706, Stolberg-Stolberg divided again, with Stolberg-Rossla being created.
Stolberg-Stolberg was forced to recognize the suzerainty of the Electorate of Saxony in 1738. It was awarded to the Kingdom of Prussia in the 1815 Congress of Vienna.
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