Isenburg-Birstein

Isenburg-Birstein was the name of two German historical states centred on Birstein in southeastern Hesse, Germany. The first "Isenburg-Birstein" was a County and was created as a partition of Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein in 1628. It was merged into Isenburg-Offenbach in 1664. The second "Isenburg-Birstein" was a Principality, created as a partition of Isenburg-Offenbach in 1711. It was renamed the "Principality of Isenburg" in 1806.

Counts of Isenburg-Birstein (1628–1664)

Birstein Arms

Birstein Castle

William Otto (1628–1635)
Christian Maurice (1635–1664) with...
Wolfgang Ernest II (1635–1641) with...
John Louis (Count of Isenburg-Offenbach) (1641–1664)

To Isenburg-Offenbach.

Count of Isenburg-Birstein (1711–1744)

Wolfgang Ernest I (1711–1754)

Princes of Isenburg-Birstein (1744–1806)

Wolfgang Ernst I of Isenburg-Birstein (1711–1754)
Wolfgang Ernst II of Isenburg-Birstein (1754–1803)
Charles (Prince of Isenburg) (1803–1806)

Renamed to Isenburg.

Upper Rhenish Circle (1500–1806) of the Holy Roman Empire

Ecclesiastical

Secular

Bar
Heitersheim
Hersfeld
Hesse
- Darmstadt
- Homburg
- Kassel
- Marburg
- Rheinfels
Isenburg-Birstein
Kaiserslautern
Lorraine²
Nassau
- Idstein
- Ottweiler
- Saarbrücken
- Usingen
- Weilburg
Salm
- Kyrburg
- Salm
Savoy
Simmern
Solms-Braunfels
Sponheim³
Veldenz / Lautereck
Waldeck³
Zweibrücken

Counts
and Lords

With Imp. Diet seats	Hanau Lichtenberg Münzenberg⁴ Isenburg Birstein Büdingen Büdingen-Birstein Königstein Mainz Stolberg Kriechingen Leiningen Dagsburg Hardenburg Westerburg Salm Grehweiler Grumbach Solms Hohensolms Laubach Lich Rödelheim Wetterau Wittgenstein Berleburg Wittgenstein

Without	Bretzenheim Dagstuhl Falkenstein Isenburg Meerholz Wächtersbach Mensfelden Olbrück Reipoltskirchen Salm-Dhaun Wartenberg

Cities

Décapole	Colmar Hagenau Kaisersberg Landau Mühlhausen⁵ Münster im Elsaß Oberehnheim Rosheim Schlettstadt Türkheim Weißenburg

Others	Frankfurt Friedberg Metz Speyer Straßburg Toul Verdun Wetzlar Worms

¹ Part of the Three Bishoprics. ² Nomeny after 1737. ³ without Reichstag seat. ⁴ until 1736. ⁵ Joined Swiss Confederacy in 1515.

Circles est. 1500: Bavarian, Swabian, Upper Rhenish, Lower Rhenish–Westphalian, Franconian, (Lower) Saxon
Circles est. 1512: Austrian, Burgundian, Upper Saxon, Electoral Rhenish · Unencircled territories

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