Solms-Laubach [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Otto in 1676, it was inherited by Solms-Baruth and recreated as a partition in 1696. Solms-Laubach was mediatised to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806.
Counts of Solms-Laubach.
Counts of Solms-Laubach First creation: 1544–1676.
- Frederick Magnus I (1544–61)
- John George (1561–1600)
- Albert Otto I (1600–10)
- Albert Otto II (1610–56)
- Charles Otto (1656–76)
Counts of Solms-Laubach Second creation: 1696–1806.
- Frederick Ernest
militia was established. This militia has been preserved to this day as the "Laubach festival committee". Frederick Magnus I was a friend of the Reformer Philipp Melanchthon. He introduced the Reformation in Solms-Laubach in 1544. He abolished the inheritance tax and issued a simplified court order, which developed into the Civil Code of Solms. In 1555, he founded a Latin School, with teachers from Wittenberg. He also founded the library of Laubach, which now contains over from the 16th century to the present. It is