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{{Infobox country
|native_name            = ''Grafschaft Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim''
|conventional_long_name = County of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim
|common_name            = Solms-Rodelheim-Assenheim<!-- no diacritics or E-infix, for category sorting -->
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|era                    = Middle Ages
|status                 = Vassal
|empire                 = Holy Roman Empire
|government_type        = Principality
|
|year_start             = 1635
|year_end               = 1806
|life_span              = 1635–1699 <br /> 1722–1728 <br /> 1778–1806
|
|event_start            = [[Personal union|Union]] of [[Solms-Rödelheim|S-Rödelheim]] <br />{{spaces|4}}and [[Solms-Assenheim|S-Assenheim]]
|date_start             = 
|event1                 = Repartitioned in twain
|date_event1            = 1699
|event2                 = <nowiki>Reunited</nowiki>
|date_event2            = 1722
|event3                 = Repartitioned
|date_event3            = 1728
|event4                 = <nowiki>Reunited</nowiki>
|date_event4            = 1778
|event_end              = [[German Mediatisation|Mediatised]] to [[Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel|Hesse-<br />{{spaces|4}}-Kassel]] and [[Grand Duchy of Hesse|-Darmstadt]]
|date_end               = 
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|p1                     = Solms-Assenheim
|image_p1               = [[File:DEU Solms COA.svg|20px|Solms]]
|p2                     = Solms-Rödelheim
|image_p2               = [[File:DEU Solms COA.svg|20px|Solms]]
|s1                     = Grand Duchy of Hesse
|flag_s1                = Flagge Großherzogtum Hessen ohne Wappen.svg
|s2                     = Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel
|flag_s2                = Flag of Hesse.svg
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|image_coat             = Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim.PNG
|image_map              = 
|image_map_caption      = 
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|capital                = Rödelheim
}}
[[File:Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim-Wappen.jpg|thumb|262px|Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim coat of arms]]
'''Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim''' was a County of southern [[Hesse]] and eastern [[Rhineland-Palatinate]], [[Germany]]. The [[Mediatised houses#List of Princely mediatised houses (Durchlaucht)|House of Solms]]<ref>See German article on the ''[[:de:Solms (Adelsgeschlecht)|House of Solms]]'' or French article ''[[:fr:Maison de Solms|Maison de Solms]]''.</ref> had its origins at [[Solms]], Hesse.

Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim was thrice created by a union of the Counts of [[Solms-Assenheim]] and [[Solms-Rödelheim]], and on the first two occasions repartitioned into those statelets. [[Mediatised houses#List of Comital mediatised houses (Erlaucht)|Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim]] was [[German Mediatisation|mediatised]] to [[Electorate of Hesse|Hesse-Kassel]] (or Hesse-Cassel) and [[Grand Duchy of Hesse|Hesse-Darmstadt]] in 1806.

==Counts of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim==

===First creation: 1635–1699<ref>{{cite web |last=Marek |first=Miroslav |url=http://genealogy.euweb.cz/solms/solms8.html |title= solms/solms8.html<!-- Bot generated title --> |publisher=genealogy.euweb.cz}}{{Self-published source|date=November 2016}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=November 2016}}===
{{Tree list}}
* '''Johann August''', Count 1635–1680 (1623-1680), ''second son of Johann Georg II, Count of Solms-Baruth''
** {{Tree list/final branch}} '''Johann Karl Eberhard''', Count 1680–1699 (1657-1699), ''eldest surviving son''
{{tree list/end}}

===Second creation: 1722–28===
'''Ludwig Heinrich''', Count 1722-1728 (1667-1728), ''third surviving son of Johann August, inherited Assenheim 1699, Rödelheim 1722''

===Third creation: 1778–1806===
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* '''Johann Ernst Karl''', Count 1778–90 (1714-1790), ''second surviving son of Ludwig Heinrich, inherited elder brother's territories 1778''
** {{Tree list/final branch}} '''Volrath Franz Karl Ludwig''', Count 1790–1818 (1762-1818), mediatized 1806
{{tree list/end}}

===After Mediatization===
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* '''Volrath Franz Karl Ludwig''', Count 1790–1818 (1762-1818), mediatized 1806
** {{Tree list/final branch}} '''Karl''', Count 1818-1844 (1790-1844)
*** {{Tree list/final branch}} '''Maximilian''', Count 1844-1892 (1826-1892)
**** {{Tree list/final branch}} '''Karl Franz''', Count 1892-1923 (1864-1923)
***** '''Maximilian''', Count 1923-1968 (1893-1968)
****** {{Tree list/final branch}} '''Markwart''', Count 1968-1976 (1925-1976), ''adopted Nikolaus as his successor''
***** {{Tree list/final branch}} ''Count Joachim Ernst of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim (1896-1978)''
****** {{Tree list/final branch}} ''Count Günther Wolfgang of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim (1931-1979)''
******* '''Nikolaus''', Count 1979-1981 (1961-1981)
******* {{Tree list/final branch}} '''Philipp''', Count 1981–present (born 1964)
******** {{Tree list/final branch}} Theodor, Hereditary Count (born 2010)<ref>http://www.royaltyguide.nl/families/fam-S/solms/solmsrodelheim3.htm</ref>
{{tree list/end}}

== Properties ==
<gallery>
Reiffenstein_Schloss_Roedelheim.jpg|Old [[Rödelheim]] castle
File:Schloss Assenheim01.jpg|Assenheim Castle
</gallery>

== References ==
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