Solms-Braunfels
Solms- Braunfels is a still existing in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Czech Republic high noble family.
History
1409, the Counts of Solms told in the lines Solms- Braunfels and Solms- Lich. The former was divided again into three branches, of which only the branch Greiffenstein is that in 1693 the name Braunfels assumed his residence from Greifenstein Castle (now ruined ) moved to Schloss Braunfels and was raised in 1742 in the imperial princes. 1806 Solms'schen principalities were mediated, that is, they lost their imperial immediacy.
The handsomest contiguous portion of the lands of the house had Prince Georg zu Solms - Braunfels ( born March 18, 1836 succedierte March 7, 1880 to his brother, Prince Ernst), namely under Prussian sovereignty the offices Braunfels, Greiffenstein, Hessian under the Grand Duke of the offices Spins, Woelfersheim and Heubach, Württemberg under a portion of Limpurg - Gaildorf, along 514 km ², with what possessions a Virilstimme was connected with the parliament of the Rhine Province. This line also belonged to the Austrian Field-Marshal Prince Carl of Solms- Braunfels (1812-1875), son of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Solms- Braunfels (1770-1814) and Princess Friederike of Mecklenburg -Strelitz (1778-1841) and stepbrother of king George V of Hanover, to which he acted in Austrian interest; his sons were Catholic and were in the Austrian service.
The full title of the rulers of the main line of Solms- Braunfels was His Serene Highness Prince of Solms- Braunfels, Count Greifenstein, Lichtenstein and Spins, Tecklenburg, Crichingen, Lingen, Lord of coins mountain, Rheda, Wild Rock, Sonnenwalde, Nailsworth, where hamlets and Beaucourt.
The first primogeniture ( to Braunfels ) went 1970 on the death of the last male descendant of this line, Prince Georg Friedrich of Solms- Braunfels ( 1890-1970 ) to his son, Hans Georg Graf von Solms- Braunfels Oppersdorff ( 1920-2003 ) headquartered in New Braunfels.
Founder of the 2nd and Catholic line was Prince Wilhelm Heinrich in Austria - Hungary. In the 19th century, most family members were officers. The large estates in Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Galicia and Lodomeria went after 1918 and 1945, two-thirds completely lost.
Coat of arms
Alliance Coat of Solms- Braunfels and Hesse -Homburg at the medieval fortified church in Tiefenbach (1714 )
The coat of arms of Friedrich Wilhelm Graf zu Solms- Braunfels in the Protestant -ref. Church in Woelfersheim
Family members
- Amalie of Solms- Braunfels (1602-1675), maid of honor the Electress Elisabeth of the Palatinate; by marriage Princess of Orange and Countess of Nassau
- Christine Charlotte of Solms- Braunfels (1690-1751), married to Prince Casimir William of Hesse -Homburg
- Friedrich Wilhelm ( Solms- Braunfels ) ( 1696-1761 ), the first Prince of Solms- Braunfels
- Heinrich von Solms- Braunfels ( 1638-1693 ). reigning Graf and Dutch, English general
- Ulrike Luise of Solms- Braunfels (1731-1792), married to Landgrave Friedrich IV of Hesse -Homburg
- Frederick William of Solms- Braunfels (1770-1814), Prussian Major General
- Ferdinand of Solms- Braunfels (1797-1873), member of the Prussian House of Lords and the Württemberg Estates
- Carl of Solms- Braunfels (1812-1875), " Texas -Carl "; k.u.k. Austro- Hungarian field marshal lieutenant and founder of the settlement New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas
- Georg zu Solms - Braunfels (1836-1891), Hessian Standesherr
- Hermann of Solms- Braunfels (1845-1900), Prince and member of the German Reichstag