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Lordship of Winneburg and Beilstein

Field	Value
native_name	Herrschaft Winneburg und Beilstein
conventional_long_name	Lordship of Winneburg and Beilstein
common_name	Winneburg and Beilstein
era	Middle Ages
status	State of the Holy Roman Empire
empire	Holy Roman Empire
government_type	Feudal Lordship
year_start	1488
event_start	Fiefdom of Trier
year_end	1801
event_end	Ceded to France
event_pre	Lordship founded
date_pre	13th century
event_post	Acquired by Prussia
date_post	1815
p1	Duchy of Lorraine
flag_p1	Blason Lorraine.svg
s1	Kingdom of Prussia
flag_s1	Flag of Prussia 1892-1918.svg
image_coat	Winneburg-Beilstein.png
capital	Beilstein
common_languages	Moselle Franconian
year_leader1	1488-1652
leader2	House of Metternich
year_leader2	from 1652

The Lordship of Beilstein in the [[Moselle Valley

The Lordship of Winneburg and Beilstein (German: Herrschaft Winneburg und Beilstein) was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire made of non-contiguous parts located in the Moselle Valley around Winneburg Castle near Cochem, and Beilstein, on the Moselle River. It should not be confused with the County of Beilstein, or , which belonged to the House of Nassau.

History

The Lords of Winneburg were first mentioned in a 1304 deed, they also acquired the estates of the neighbouring Beilstein Castle in 1362. In the following decades the Lords of Winneburg and Beilstein were forced to give their lands in pawn to the Archbishops of Trier, who after a feud, finally seized the property in 1488, only to lend it back as a fiefdom a few years later.

After the Winneburg-Beilstein line had become extinct in 1637, the Lordships of Winneburg and Beilstein returned to the descendants of the Trier archbishop Lothar von Metternich (1551–1623). From 1637 on called themselves Freiherren von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein and were elevated to Imperial counts in 1679. In 1652, the Archbishop of Trier, gave the Lordships of Winneburg and Beilstein in fief to the Vettelhoven branch of House of Metternich. The last reigning Count Franz George Karl lost his territory to France in 1794, with the country officially annexing the left bank of the Rhine following the 1801 Treaty of Lunéville. He was however compensated in the course of the German mediatization with the possession of secularized Ochsenhausen Abbey and with the title of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1803.

According to the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna, Winneburg-Beilstein together with the Rhineland fell to Prussia in 1815. Franz George Karl's son, Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich took the chance to buy the ruin of Winneburg Castle in 1832 but never rebuilt it.

References

"Winneburg. Titles of European hereditary rulers".

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