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Principality of Aschaffenburg
Origins
Aschaffenburg had been the second residence of the archbishops of Mainz for centuries, with the large Renaissance Johannisburg palace. When the Electorate of Mainz lost its left-bank lands, the Imperial Recess of 1803 formed its remaining territories on the Main and Spessart into the Principality of Aschaffenburg for Karl Theodor von Dalberg.
Rule and society
Aschaffenburg was the core of the Archchancellor's Electorate and Dalberg's main residence. It was Catholic and rural, with forestry in the Spessart. Dalberg promoted education, founding a school of forestry and maintaining the Mainz university's remnants as a Karlsuniversität in Aschaffenburg.
Decline and legacy
In 1810 the principality became a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. After Napoleon's fall it was given to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814, to which it still belongs.
Lineage
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- Principality of Aschaffenburg was part of Archchancellor's Electorate1803 CE – 1810 CE
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Principality of Aschaffenburg. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/principality-of-aschaffenburg
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