Hesse History
Hesse (German is a historical region of Germany , between the Rhine , the Main and Weser.
Part of the historic Hesse is now the Land of Hesse: see Hesse (State).
Hesse gave its name to a sovereign house, exit itself from that of Thuringia : see the House of Hesse.
History
From the time of Charlemagne , there are lords or hereditary Counts of Hesse, called almost all Werp or Gison. The heiress wore Gison IV in 1130 in his home area of Thuringia, but in 1263 , they were detached, with the title of landgraviate in favor of Henry I of Hesse.
In 1567 , the death of Philip I the Magnanimous , the Hessian landgraves divided into several branches:
- the landgraviate Hesse-Cassel , who will become the nineteenth century the electorate of Hesse-Kassel or Hesse Election.
- the landgraviate Hesse-Darmstadt , who became the nineteenth century the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Of the latter was detached in 1596 the landgraviate Hesse-Homburg.
In 1866 , Hesse-Cassel and Hesse-Homburg, were annexed to Prussia to form, with Frankfurt and the Duchy of Nassau the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.
In 1871 , Hesse-Darmstadt was incorporated into the German Empire.
After the end of the Second World War , Hesse was divided between the American occupation zones and French (the left bank of the Rhine ). The French incorporated it into their portion of Hesse (the Rheinhessen ) in the Land of Rhineland-Palatinate , while the Americans formed the "State of Great-Hesse (Gro-Hessen) from Hesse-Darmstadt and the largest part of the former Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. On 4 December 1946 , Great Hesse was renamed "Hesse".
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