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Waldeck (state)
Waldeck (or later Waldeck-Pyrmont) was a sovereign principality in what is now Lower Saxony and Hesse (Germany).
Waldeck was a county within the Holy Roman Empire from about 1200. In 1655 its seat and the chief residence of its rulers shifted from the castle and small town of Waldeck, overlooking the Eder river and first mentioned in 1120, to Arolsen. In 1625 the small county of Pyrmont became part of the county through inheritance. In 1711 the count of Waldeck and Pyrmont was elevated to prince. The independence of the principality was confirmed in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, and Waldeck-Pyrmont became a member of the German Confederation. From 1868 onward, the principality was administered by Prussia, but retained its nominal sovereignty. In 1871 it became a constituent state of the new German Empire. At the end of World War I, the prince abdicated and Waldeck-Pyrmont became a Free State within the Weimar Republic.
On 30 November 1921, following a local plebiscite, the city and district of Pyrmont were detached and incorporated into the Prussian province of Hanover. The remainder of the Free State of Waldeck was incorporated into Prussia in 1929, following another plebiscite, and became part of the province of Hesse-Nassau. The territory is today part of the District of Waldeck-Frankenberg.
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