Hanau-Lichtenberg
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The County of Hanau-Lichtenberg was a territory in the Holy Roman Empire. It emerged between 1456 and 1480 from a part of the County of Hanau and one half of the Barony of Lichtenberg. Following the extinction of the counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg in 1736 it went to Hesse-Darmstadt, minor parts of it to the Hesse-Cassel. Its centre was in the lower Alsace, the capital first Babenhausen, later Buchsweiler.
Boundary marker between the Duchy of Lorraine and Hanau-Lichtenberg, installed in 1608
The portion of Hanau-Lichtenberg (in blue) within Alsace at the time it was annexed by France in 1680
Philip I (the Elder), progenitor of the line of Hanau-Lichtenberg on his epitaph in the municipal church of St. Nicholas in Babenhausen
Lichtenberg Castle from a Merian copperplate
Hanau-Münzenberg
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The County of Hanau-Münzenberg was a territory within the Holy Roman Empire. It emerged when the County of Hanau was divided in 1458, the other part being the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg. Due to common heirs, both counties were merged from 1642 to 1685 and from 1712 to 1736. In 1736 the last member of the House of Hanau died and the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel inherited the county.
Philipp I (The Younger) on an altarpiece in Wörth am Main
Philipp Ludwig II
Hanau during Thirty Years' War
Johann David Welcker: Allegory on the acquisition of Surinam by Count Friedrich Casimir of Hanau in 1669. (1676) Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. Inventary # 1164.