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Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg Herzogtum Pfalz-Neuburg (German) | |||||||||
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1505–1808 | |||||||||
Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806) | ||||||||
Capital | Neuburg an der Donau | ||||||||
Common languages | Austro-Bavarian | ||||||||
Religion | Counts Palatine were Roman Catholic until 1541, then Lutheran until 1614, then again Roman Catholic since 1614. | ||||||||
Government | Principality | ||||||||
Count Palatine | |||||||||
• 1505–57 | Otto Henry | ||||||||
• 1557–69 | Wolfgang | ||||||||
• 1653–90 | Philip William | ||||||||
• 1742–99 | Charles Theodore | ||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
30 July 1505 | |||||||||
• In personal union with the Electorate of the Palatinate | 1556–1557 | ||||||||
• Ceded to Zweibrücken | 1557 | ||||||||
• Sulzbach separated | 1614 | ||||||||
• Merged with the Electorate of the Palatinate | 1685 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1808 | ||||||||
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Palatinate-Neuburg (German: Herzogtum Pfalz-Neuburg) was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire, founded in 1505 by a branch of the House of Wittelsbach. Its capital was Neuburg an der Donau. Its area was about 2,750 km2, with a population of some 100,000.