Isenburg-Büdingen

The county Isenburg - Büdingen, also: Ysenburg - Budingen, in the Wetterau north-east of Frankfurt am Main was the royal domain of the Counts of the same name, which in 1628 as a special line (side line) was the Count of Isenburg.

The country subdivisions from 1668 and 1684

Count Wolfgang Ernst von Isenburg - Büdingen in Birstein, Viscount of Gelnhausen (* 1560, † 1633) put forward several years before his death down the government and divided the county among his five sons. Since only two of the sons of male offspring had attacked the other parts of the country back to this later. As a result, there was a series of Erbkonflikten, which led to the final division of the county into the county Isenburg - Isenburg -Offenbach Büdingen and 1668. Maria Charlotte (1631-1693), the widow of Count Johann Ernst I of Isenburg - Büdingen agreed in 1684 in a recess with Johann Ludwig ( 1622-1685 ), the other surviving grandson of Wolfgang Ernst II of Isenburg - Büdingen in Birstein the division.

The division of the state of 1687

Took place on July 23, 1687 in a renewed recess the division of the country among the four sons of Mary Charlotte. The eldest son, Count Johann Casimir von Isenburg - Büdingen (1660-1693) received the castle, town and court Büdingen and the surrounding villages, Ferdinand Maximilian, the second son received the castle and town of Waechtersbach, Karl August was Marie Born in what is now Büdinger district Eckartshausen with the surrounding villages and Georg Albrecht received sea timber and the surrounding villages ( see also the legend of the four spruce ). Therefore, it was in the period following addition of the (old ) main line Isenburg - Birstein the (new) special lines Isenburg and Büdingen Büdingen, Isenburg and Büdingen in sea timber and Isenburg and Büdingen Waechtersbach.

Loss of independence in the new state Confederation of the Rhine

By the Act of Confederation, 1806 Carl, Prince of Isenburg - Birstein (* 1766, † 1820, he reigned from 1803 to 1820 mostly with residence in Offenbach am Main ) souverainer ruler over all isenburgische land ( Carl's father, the Count of Isenburg - Birstein was 1744 been collected by the German king and emperor in a prince, but only 1803 ( Reichsdeputationshauptschluss ) got his son a Virilstimme in the Imperial ) the special lines were mediatized, the territories of the counties lost their previous quasi- independence and were now called districts. . Under Prince Carl was from the former imperial territory a modern state largely on the Napoleonic model.

Able Lord under elector and Grand Duke from 1816

By resolution of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the state came to the Empire of Austria and in 1816 after a division agreement to the Grand Duchy of Hesse ( Offenbach, Neu-Isenburg, Sprendlingen, Dreieich and the area of the special line Ysenburg and Büdingen Büdingen ) and the Electorate of Hesse ( the north of the Main location, area of Isenburg - Birstein and areas of specialty lines Ysenburg and Büdingen in sea timber and Ysenburg and Büdingen Waechtersbach were shared ). In the following, belonging to the German Confederation Grand Duchy of Hesse and Hesse Electorate, both the former main line in Birstein and the special lines capable Lord in both states, including Ysenburg - Büdingen. The Count wrote her " Isenburg " in the aftermath - as today - with "Y".

Counts and Princes of Ysenburg and Büdingen (1633-1918)

Chiefs of the house Ysenburg - Büdingen (since 1918)

Other bearers of the name

• Georg August Ysenburg and Büdingen (1741-1822), royal Bavarian General
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ysenburg and Büdingen (1850-1933), German nobleman