County of Rieneck

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Bailiwick of the Archbishopric of Mainz; Lordship (County) of Rieneck Vogtei des Mainzer Erzstift; Herrschaft (Grafschaft) Rieneck
before 1100–1559 1673–1806
Coat of arms
Status	State of the Holy Roman Empire
Capital	Lohr
Government	County
Historical era	Middle Ages
• First mention of Rieneck	c. 790
• County established	before 1100
• Court of Louis I, Count of Loon	from 1168
• Granted city rights by Emperor Louis IV	1333
• Comital line extinct	1559
• Purchased by Count of Nostitz	1673
• Mediatised to Aschaffenburg	1806
• Granted to Bavaria	1815
Preceded by Succeeded by Electorate of Mainz Principality of Aschaffenburg

The County of Rieneck was a comital domain within the Holy Roman Empire that lay in what is now northwestern Bavaria (in the west of Lower Franconia). It bore the same name as its original ruling family, the Counts of Rieneck, from whom the county and its main seat, the town of Rieneck, got their names.