Electorate of Baden

Territory of the Holy Roman Empire

The Electorate of Baden was a short-lived territory of the Holy Roman Empire. It was established on April 27, 1803 with the enactment of Reichsdeputationshauptschluss conclusion from the previous Margraviate of Baden. Margrave Karl Friedrich received one of the spectrum released by dissolution of the ecclesiastical principalities Kurwürden. As the electorate in 1806 signed the Act of Confederation, and thus the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, supported by the electoral dignity was superseded and the Electorate of Baden converted into a Grand Duchy.

Territorial changes

As compensation for the loss of the left bank of the Rhine to France the electorate received rechtsrheinische parts of the Palatinate ( with Mannheim and Heidelberg), the right bank, owned by the Prince-Bishopric of Constance, of the diocese of Basel, of the Archdiocese of Strasbourg and of the Diocese of Speyer. In addition, the imperial cities of Ortenau ( Offenburg, Gengenbach, Gengenbach ) and the Reichstal Harmersbach Baden were slammed shut, as well as the Linzgau with Überlingen and Pfullendorf. Originally the Reichststadt Wimpfen came to the electorate, but was immediately assigned to Hesse -Darmstadt. Furthermore, Baden received the territories of many abbeys and pens.

Population

After the principle cuius regio eius religio was soaked already by the Association of Roman Catholic Margraviate of Baden -Baden with the Lutheran Margraviate of Baden -Durlach to Margraviate of Baden in 1771, received the Electorate of newly formed through the integration of the Palatinate reformed embossed territory added. So had the Elector three major Christian denominations in his newly assembled territory.