MAKE A MEME View Large Image Münster partition 1802.jpg en Map from 1803 showing how the territory of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster was partitioned in 1802 in the course of the German Mediatization that saw all the prince-bishoprics save one abolished <br> The ...
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Keywords: Münster partition 1802.jpg en Map from 1803 showing how the territory of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster was partitioned in 1802 in the course of the German Mediatization that saw all the prince-bishoprics save one abolished <br> The northern half the Niederstift was divided between the Duke of Oldenburg area in blue and the Duke of Arenberg area in pink while the larger part of the central and southern half the Oberstift was taken by Prussia the balance being divided between lesser rulers such as the princes of Salm-Salm and Salm-Kyrburg and the count of Salm-Grumbach <br> Not highlighted in color is the southwestern area of the Prince-Bishopric that had already been annexed by the French Republic and therefore was not part of the 1802 partition That area is shown on the map as the roughly triangular area enclosed within the barely visible doted line that extends west almost to the edge of the map This rare and unusual map was published by Homann Heirs in 1803 barely a year after the actual partition of what had been the largest ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire 2014-09-18 17 56 02 http //wiki-de genealogy net/F C3 BCrstbistum_M C3 BCnster/Aufteilungskarte_von_1802 Homann Heirs 1803 Pd-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Maps of Münster German mediatization 2014 in Münster
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