Hesse-Homburg

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Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg Landgrafschaft Hessen-Homburg
1622–1866
Flag Coat of arms
Map of Hesse-Homburg (two parts, beige, with Homburg and Meisenheim) and the Middle Rhine
Capital	Bad Homburg
Common languages	German
Government	Landgraviate
Landgrave
• 1622–1638	Frederick I (first)
• 1848–1866	Ferdinand (last)
History
• Established	1622
• Ceded by Darmstadt	1668
• Ceded to Darmstadt	1806
• Re-established	1815
• Inherited by Grand Duchy of Hesse1	1866
Area
• Total	430 km2 (170 sq mi)
Population
• 1848	22,800
Preceded by Succeeded by Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt Grand Duchy of Hesse Province of Hesse-Nassau
1 Meisenheim ceded to the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.

Hesse-Homburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and a sovereign member of the German Confederation, which consisted of the lordship of Homburg at the foot of the Taunus, which was then known as Die Höhe ("the Heights"). The reigning princes belonged to the Darmstadt line of the House of Hesse. It was created in 1622 by the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt to be ruled by one of his sons, but from 1622 to 1768 and again from 1806 to 1815, the territory was part of Hesse-Darmstadt. It was briefly divided into Hesse-Homburg and Hesse-Homburg-Bingenheim; but these parts were reunited in 1681. In 1815, it became a sovereign principality, expanded with the addition of Oberamt Meisenheim [de] in the Rhineland to give a total area of 221 km². When the reigning princely family died out in March 1866, the territory returned to Hesse-Darmstadt, but the latter was forced to cede the territory to Prussia in September of the same year after it was defeated in the Austro-Prussian War.