Palatine Zweibrücken [SEP] dissolved or abolished
, received the County of Zweibrücken and the County of Veldenz.
Palatine Zweibrücken ceased to exist in 1801 when it was annexed by France. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, some parts of it were returned to the last Duke, King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, who joined them with other former territories on the left bank of the Rhine to form the "Rheinkreis", later the Rhenish Palatinate.
Origins.
The principality was conceived in 1444 and realized in 1453 by a partition of the County Palatine
new County Palatine, as whose comital residence he chose the town of Zweibrücken: the County Palatine – later Duchy – of Palatinate-Zweibrücken.
History Modern times.
The village shared a history with the County Palatine of Zweibrücken until that state came to an end with the French Revolution. The Wörschweiler Monastery was dissolved in the Reformation and its whole estate was taken over by the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, which then had it administered by a church guardianship. Even as far back as the 15th century, the so-