County (Principality) of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Grafschaft (Fürstentum) Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (German) | |||||||||
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.svg) Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt within the German Empire | |||||||||
.svg) Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt within Thuringia | |||||||||
| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806), State of the Confederation of the Rhine, State of the German Confederation, State of the North German Confederation, State of the German Empire, State of the Weimar Republic | ||||||||
| Capital | Rudolstadt | ||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||
| Prince | |||||||||
• 1710–1718 | Louis Frederick I (first) | ||||||||
• 1890–1918 | Günther Victor (last) | ||||||||
| Legislature | Landtag | ||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||
| 1599 | |||||||||
• Raised to Principality | 1711 | ||||||||
| 1918 | |||||||||
• Merged into Thuringia | 1920 | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1835 | 58,000[1] | ||||||||
• 1848 | 62,000[2] | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a small historic state in present-day Thuringia, Germany, with its capital at Rudolstadt.