Hanau-Lichtenberg

County of Hanau-Lichtenberg Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg
1456/80 – 1736
Coat of arms
Status	State of the Holy Roman Empire
Capital	Buchsweiler
Government	County
History
• Established	1456-1480
• Disestablished	1736
Preceded by Succeeded by County of Hanau   Barony of Lichtenberg County of Zweibrücken-Bitsch Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt Landgraviate of Hesse-Cassel
Roman Catholic; from 16th-century Lutheran; ruled by counts; language: German

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.