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Hesse-Cassel became an electorate in 1803, while Hesse-Hanau became the principality of Hanau. However, in 1806 the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved and Hesse-Cassel was incorporated into the French satellite Kingdom of Westphalia .
The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel (German: Landgrafschaft Hessen-Kassel), spelled Hesse-Cassel during its entire existence, also known as the Hessian Palatinate (German: Hessische Pfalz), was a state of the Holy Roman Empire. The state was created in 1567 when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided upon the death of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.
Hanau passed to Hesse-Kassel in 1736. In 1813 it was the scene of a battle between Napoleon’s troops and Austrians and Bavarians. Much of the town was rebuilt after being virtually demolished in World War II, and the new buildings were erected to conform to the historic pattern.
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Hesse-Kassel, former landgraviate of Germany, formed in 1567 in the division of old Hesse. In 1567 Hesse was partitioned among four sons of Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous, Hesse-Kassel going to William IV the Wise. Hesse-Kassel was the largest, most important, and most northerly of the four Hesse.
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On September 12, Hesse-Kassel's highest court ruled these measures to be unconstitutional; the next day Friedrich Wilhelm abandoned his capital for his residence in Wilhelmsbad near Hanau. Left behind in Kassel to enforce the state of emergency, by military means if necessary, was Carl von Haynau (brother of the notorious Austrian general ...
Hesse: Cadet branches: Hesse-Kassel Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld Hanau-Schaumburg Mountbatten (morganatic) Extinct branches: Hesse-Braubach (extinct) Hesse-Butzbach (extinct) Hesse-Darmstadt (extinct) Hesse-Homburg (extinct) Hesse-Itter (extinct) Hesse-Marburg (extinct) Hesse-Philippsthal (extinct) Hesse-Rheinfels (extinct) Hesse ...
1 In the eighteenth and in much of the nineteenth centuries, the current German state of Hesse was roughly divided into three principalities: Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Hesse-Nassau. The Free City of Frankfurt was an independent state and bordered Hesse-Cassel to the south.
