Arms of the Principality of
Lippe
The supporters are of Lippe and Schwalenberg
The supporters are of Lippe and Schwalenberg
LIPPE
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Arms of the Principality of
Lippe The supporters are of Lippe and Schwalenberg |
Lippe and later Lippe-Detmold was a historical state in Germany. It was located between the Weser River and the southeast part of the Teutoburg forest. The founder of Lippe was Bernard I who received a grant of the territory from the Holy Roman Emperor Lothair III in 1123, Bernard I assumed the title of Lord of Lippe. Bernard's successors inherited or obtained several counties. Lord Simon V was the first ruler of Lippe to style himself Count.
In 1528, Lippe became a county. Following the death of Count Simon VI in 1613, Lippe was split into three counties with Lippe-Detmold going to Count Simon VII, Lippe-Brake going to Count Otto and Lippe-Alverdissen going to Count Philipp. The Lippe-Brake county was reunited with the main Detmold line in 1709. Another branch of the family was founded by Count Jobst Hermann a son of Count Simon VII, who was founder of the Lippe-Biesterfeld line.
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Lippe city arms |
The Counts of Lippe-Detmold were granted the title prince of the empire in 1789. Unlike many other countries of the Holy Roman Empire in the area Lippe kept its independence in the Napoleonic times, and thus wasn't incorporated into Prussia afterwards. It was one of the smaller member states of the German empire, joining in 1871. The Lippe-Detmold line died out on 20 July 1895. and resulted in an inheritance dispute between the neighbouring principality of Schaumburg-Lippe and the Lippe-Biesterfeld line. The dispute was resolved by the Imperial Court in Leipzig in 1905, with the lands passing to the Lippe-Biesterfeld line who, until this point, had no territorial sovereignty.
The last prince of Lippe was forced to abdicate in 1918 after the end of World War I when Germany became a republic, his country became a Freistaat in the German republic. In 1932 the state was subdivided into two districts, Detmold and Lemgo. These continued to exist when in 1947 Lippe lost its status as a state of Germany and by order of the British military government was incorporated into the new federal state North Rhine-Westphalia; in 1949 it was approved by the parliament. In 1969/70 the 168 cities and municipalities were merged to 16; and as the second part of the administrative reform in 1973 the two districts Lemgo and Detmold were merged to the district Lippe.
Key identification notes: Lippe's rose is a very distinctive and unusual charge on German arms, and is shown prominently on most of Lippe's coins either by itself, in a central escutcheon, or in the first quarter.
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