Imperial County of Bretzenheim
Reichsgrafschaft Bretzenheim*
1790–1804
Coat of arms of Bretzenheim of Bretzenheim
Coat of arms of Bretzenheim
StatusCounty
CapitalBretzenheim
Common languagesWest Central German
GovernmentCounty
Historical eraNapoleonic Wars
 Partitioned from the
    Electorate of the Palatinate
 
1790 1790
 Raised to princely county
1789
 Part-mediatised to
    Hesse-Darmstadt; granted
    County of Lindau am Bodensee
 
 
1803
 Mediatised to Austria
1804
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Electorate of the Palatinate Electorate of the Palatinate
Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt
Archduchy of Austria
* Later Reichsfürstentum Bretzenheim, Imperial princely county of Bretzenheim

Bretzenheim was a minor principality in pre-Napoleonic Germany. It was created in 1790 for Prince Charles Augustus (1769-1823) of the line of Wittelsbach-Bretzenheim, son of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria and Palatinate.

Its territory in central Germany was mediatised to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1803, and its territory north of Lake Constance (former imperial city of Lindau) was mediatised to Austria in 1804.

Before 1789-1790 it was an Imperial Lordship and it had some important rulers, including Ambrosius Franz, Count of Virmont. In 1772 the Elector of Palatinate bought the Lordship (Imperial County 1774 ) for his son.

Prince of Bretzenheim

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