Schaumburg-Lippe, also called Lippe-Schaumburg, was created as a county in 1647, became a principality in 1807 and a free state in 1918, and was until 1946 a small state in Germany, located in the pre
German cartoon from 1834 poking fun at the microscopic size of Schaumburg-Lippe by exaggeration, before the Zollverein