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5 unusual facts about Erbach


Countess Sophia Albertine of Erbach-Erbach

Sophia Albertine, Countess of Erbach-Erbach (30 July 1683, Erbach – 4 September 1742, Eisfeld), was Countess of erbach-erbach by birth and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

After her son took over government in 1728, she retired to her Wittum seat of Eisfeld, where she died on 4 September 1742.

Countess Sophie Henriette of Waldeck

Sophia Henriette of Waldeck (3 August 1662, Arolsen – 15 October 1702, Erbach) was a Princess of Waldech by birth and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen,

Sophie Henriette had a very close relationship with her eldest son Ernest Frederick I; she arranged his marriage to her first cousin once removed Countess Sophia Albertine of Erbach-Erbach.

Erbach, Rhineland-Palatinate

It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rheinböllen, whose seat is in the like-named town.


Amalie of Saxe-Hildburghausen

Amalie was the youngest child and only daughter of the Duke Ernest Frederick II of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1707–1745) from his marriage to Caroline (1700–1758), daughter of Count Philip Charles of Erbach-Fürstenau.

Bruno, 3rd Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen

Bruno was the eldest son of Ernst Casimir II, 2nd Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen and his wife Countess Thekla of Erbach-Fürstenau.

Christian Erbach

Erbach was born in Gau-Algesheim, Mainz-Bingen, now in the Rhineland-Palatinate Bundesland, and began to study musical composition at a considerably young age.

Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg

Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg, born 20 August 1727 (20 July, according to other sources) at Gedern, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, in the then Holy Roman Empire, was a daughter of George August, Count of Erbach-Schönberg, and Ferdinande Henriette, Countess of Stolberg-Gedern.

Elisabet Juliana Banér

Elisabet Juliana Banér née Elisabet Juliana of Erbach (January 22, 1600 - May 29, 1640, Saalfeld), was a German noble, married to the Swedish Field Marshal Johan Banér in 1636.

Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen

# Joseph Maria Frederick Wilhelm (b. Erbach, 5 October 1702 – d. Hildburghausen, 4 January 1787).

Ernst Casimir II, 2nd Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen

Ernst Casimir married Countess Thekla of Erbach-Fürstenau, fourth eldest daughter of Albrecht, Count of Erbach-Fürstenau and his wife Princess Sophie Emilie Luise of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Ingelfingen, on 8 September 1836 in Beerfelden.

Ernst Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen

In Fürstenau on 19 June 1726 Ernst Frederick married Caroline of Erbach-Fürstenau (d. July 1745).

Froben Christopher of Zimmern

Froben Christopher of Zimmer was born on 19 February 1519 at Mespelbrunn Castle in the Spessart as the son of John Werner and his wife, Catherine of Erbach.

Heinrich LXII, Prince Reuss Younger Line

Heinrich LXII was born at Schleiz, Reuss, eldest surviving son of Heinrich XLII, Prince Reuss of Schleiz (1752–1818), (son of Count Heinrich XII Reuss of Schleiz, and Countess Christine of Erbach-Schönberg) and his wife, Princess Caroline of Hohenlohe-Kirchberg (1761–1849), (daughter of Christian Friedrich Karl, Prince of Hohenlohe-Kirchberg and Princess Louise Charlotte of Hohenlohe-Langenburg).

Heinrich LXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line

Heinrich LXVII was born at Schleiz, Reuss, younger surviving son of Heinrich XLII, Prince Reuss of Schleiz (1752–1818), (son of Count Heinrich XII Reuss of Schleiz, and Countess Christine of Erbach-Schönberg) and his wife, Princess Caroline of Hohenlohe-Kirchberg (1761–1849), (daughter of Christian Friedrich Karl, Prince of Hohenlohe-Kirchberg and Princess Louise Charlotte of Hohenlohe-Langenburg).

Karl Julius Weber

He received his education at Erlangen and Göttingen, and after some time passed in Switzerland, became, in 1792, private secretary to the Count of Erbach-Schönberg, whom he left in 1799 to accept the post of Government councilor at König in Odenwald.

Louis Frederick of Saxe-Hildburghausen

Louis Frederick was the younger son of Duke Ernest Frederick I of Saxony-Hildburghausen and his wife Countess Sophia Albertine of Erbach-Erbach.

Louise Juliane of Erbach

Countess Louise Juliane of Erbach (1603 at Fürstenau Castle near Michelstadt – 28 September 1670 in Friedewald) was a Countess of Erbach by birth, and by marriage Countess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn.

Saxe-Hildburghausen

1724–1745 Ernest Frederick II, from 1724 to 1728 under the Regency of his mother, Countess Sophia Albertine of Erbach-Erbach


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