List of states in the Holy Roman Empire (O)
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This is a list of states in the Holy Roman Empire beginning with the letter O:
| Name | Type | Circle | Bench | Formed | Notes |
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 Oberbronn |
Lordship | n/a | n/a | 1232: First mentioned; fief of Lichtenberg | 1352: Sold to Ochsenstein as fief of Lichtenberg 1382: Sold to Lichtenberg 1452: Sold to Lützelstein as fief of Lichtenberg 1480: To Zweibrücken-Bitsch 1551: To Leiningen-Westerburg-Leiningen 1622: To Leiningen-Westerburg-Oberbronn 1665: 2/3 to Hesse-Homburg, 1/3 to Sinclair 1727: Hessian portion to Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein 1732: Sinclair portion to Lewenhaupt 1764: Part of Hohenlohe portion to de Dietrich 1789: All to France |
 Oberehnheim (Obernai) |
Imperial City | Upp Rhen | RH | 1248: Free Imperial City | 1679: To France |
 OberelsaßSee: Upper Alsace |
Landgraviate | ||||
 Obermünster in Regensburg |
Abbacy | Bav | RP | 1000s: Established with imperial immediacy | 1315: HRE Princess of the Empire 1803: To the Archbishopric of Regensburg 1810: To Bavaria; suppressed |
 Oberried |
Provostry | n/a | n/a | 1237 | 1249: Abolished 1255: Reestablished 1496: Advocacy to Freiburg within Further Austria 1725: Advocacy to St Blaise's Abbey within Further Austria 1806: To Baden |
 ObersalmSee: Salm in the Vosges |
County | ||||
 Oberstein |
Lordship | n/a | n/a | 1075: First mentioned; to Stein | 1323: To Daun-Oberstein 1518: To Daun-Falkenstein 1554: To Daun-Falkenstein-Oberstein 1682: Extinct; to Leiningen-Heidesheim 1766: To Limburg-Styrum-Styrum 1771: Idarbann to Baden 1794: To France 1815: To Prussia 1817: Attached to the Principality of Birkenfeld |
 Ochsenhausen |
1391: Abbey | Swab | SP | 1093: Priory of St. Blaise's Abbey | 1391: Independent abbey 1495: Imperial immediacy 1803: To Schaesberg-Retersbeck (Tannheim), Sinzendorf (Winterrieden) and Metternich-Winneburg and Beilstein (remainder) 1806: All to Württemberg |
 Ochsenstein |
Lordship | n/a | n/a | 1186: First mentioned; branch of Geroldseck | 1391: Quarter of Ochsenstein sold to the Palatinate 1485: Extinct; to Zweibrücken-Bitsch |
 Odenheim and Bruchsal |
Abbey 1503: Provostry |
Upp Rhen | RP | 1110-8 | 1161: Imperial immediacy 1496: HRE Lord 1503: Converted to provostry 1507: Relocated to Bruchsal 1803: To Baden |
 Oettingen (Öttingen) |
County | n/a | n/a | 1147: First mentioned; related to the House of Hohenstaufen | 1363: Acquired Spielberg 1418: Partitioned into Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Wallerstein |
| Oettingen-Baldern |
County | Swab | SC | 1623: Partitioned from Oettingen-Wallerstein | 1798: Extinct; to Oettingen-Wallerstein |
| Oettingen-Flochberg |
County | Swab | SC | 1442: Partitioned from Oettingen-Wallerstein | 1522: Partitioned into itself and Oettingen-Wallerstein 1548: Extinct; to Oettingen-Wallerstein |
| Oettingen-Oettingen |
County 1674: Principality |
Swab | SC | 1418: Partitioned from Oettingen | 1440: Extinct; to Oettingen-Wallerstein 1442: Partitioned from Oettingen-Wallerstein 1674: HRE Prince 1731: Extinct; to Oettingen-Wallerstein |
| Oettingen-Spielberg |
County 1734: Principality |
Swab | SC / PR | 1623: Partitioned from Oettingen-Wallerstein | 1734: HRE Prince 1803: Bench of Princes 1806: To Bavaria 1810: Parts to Württemberg |
| Oettingen-Wallerstein |
County 1774: Principality |
Swab | SC / PR | 1418: Partitioned from Oettingen | 1442: Partitioned into Oettingen-Oettingen, itself and Oettingen-Flochberg 1486: Extinct; divided between Oettingen-Flochberg and Oettingen-Oettingen 1522: Partitioned from Oettingen-Flochberg 1549: Extinct; to Frederick V of Oettingen-Oettingen by marriage, who assumed the name Oettingen-Wallerstein 1623: Partitioned into Oettingen-Spielberg, itself and Oettingen-Baldern 1774: HRE Prince 1803: Bench of Princes 1806: To Bavaria 1810: Parts to Württemberg |
 Offenburg |
Imperial City | Swab | SW | before 1240: Imperial Free City | 1803: To Baden |
 Olbrück |
Lordship | Low Rhen | WE | 1190: Purchased by Wied from the Archbishopric of Cologne | 1244: Wied extinct; Olbrück was divided and shared ultimately with a dozen families, often in dispute with each other 1555: All to Waldbott von Bassenheim 1788: Along with Pirmont was used to give access to the Westphalian counts 1794: To France 1815: To Prussia |
%2C_comte_d'Oldenbourg.svg.png){kind=small} OldenburgGrand Duke of Oldenburg, Heir in Norway, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn, Ditmarshes & Oldenburg, Prince of Lübeck and Birkenfeld, Lord of Jever and Kniphausen |
County 1777: Duchy 1815: Grand Duchy |
Low Rhen | PR | 1108: First mentioned; fief of Saxony | 1143: Partitioned into Wildeshausen and itself 1181: Imperial immediacy c. 1278: Partitioned into itself and Oldenburg-Delmenhorst 1463: Partitioned into itself and Oldenburg-Delmenhorst 1577: Partitioned into itself and Oldenburg-Delmenhorst 1667: Extinct; to Denmark 1773: To Paul of Russia; then to Frederick Augustus of Lübeck 1777: HRE Duke 1810: To France 1814: Restored 1815: Grand Duke |
| Oldenburg-Delmenhorst |
County | Low Rhen | PR | c. 1278: Partitioned from Oldenburg | 1447: Extinct; to Oldenburg 1463: Partitioned from Oldenburg 1482: To Oldenburg 1483: To the Bishopric of Münster 1484: Extinct 1547: To Oldenburg 1577: Partitioned from Oldenburg 1647: Extinct; to Oldenburg |
 Orange |
County 1173: Principality |
none | none | 11th century: Independence from Provence | 1121: Extinct in male line; to Aumelas by marriage 1173: Extinct; to Baux by marriage; HRE Prince 1193: To Baux-Orange 1289: Acquired Baux 1417: Extinct; to Chalon-Arlay 1544: To William of Nassau-Dillenburg, who took the name Orange-Nassau 1702: To France, who enfoeffed Francis Louis of Conti 1713: To France, attached to the Dauphiné |
 Orange-Nassau |
Principality | none | none | 1544: Created when William of Nassau-Dillenburg inherited Orange | 1702: Extinct; succession dispute between Nassau-Dietz who took the name Orange-Nassau, and Prussia. Orange itself seized by France 1739: Acquired Nassau-Hadamar and Nassau-Dillenburg 1743: Acquired Nassau-Siegen 1747: Acquired the Netherlands 1795: Left bank territory to France 1806: United with Nassau-Orange-Fulda; then dispersed between various states 1815: King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg |
 Orlamünde |
County | n/a | n/a | 1032-1040: Mentioned, to counts of Orlamünde | By 1060: Extinct; to Weimar 1062: To Weimar-Orlamünde |
 Orsini and RosenbergPrince of Orsini and Rosenberg, Baron of Lerchenau and Grafenstein |
1681: HRE Count (Personalist) 1790: HRE Prince (Personalist) |
n/a | FR | 1681 | 13th century: First mentioned 1681: Granted personalist vote in the Bench of Franconian Counts 1684: Adopted style of Orsini-Rosenberg |
 Ortenau (Mortenau) |
Landvogtei | n/a | n/a | 763: First mentioned; gau county of the Carolingian Empire | 1007: To the Bishopric of Bamberg ?: To Zähringen 1218: Seized by the Emperor 1261: To Geroldseck The Ortenau disintegrated soon after, though the title was held variously by Bach, Fürstenberg, Mörsperg, Ochsenstein and Oettingen, amongst others 1803: Much of the Ortenau to Breisgau-Modena and Baden 1819: All to Baden |
 Ortenburg in Carinthia |
County | n/a | n/a | 1072: First mentioned; possibly related to Grögling-Hirschberg | 1306: Imperial immediacy 1418: Extinct; to Celje 1456: Extinct; to Austria |
 Ortenburg (Ortenberg)Count of Ortenburg, Count and Lord of Tambach |
County | Bav | WT | 1135: Partitioned from Carinthia in the former lands of Vohburg-Passau | 1145: Acquired advocacies around Passau 1158: Acquired much of Vornbach 1163: Acquired Murach 1173: Acquired Kraiburg and Marquartstein 1188: Acquired Sulzbach; partitioned into Ortenburg-Kraiburg and Ortenburg-Ortenburg 1272: Remaining territories held by Ortenburg-Ortenburg; henceforth known as Ortenburg 1319: Acquired Wildenegg 1395: Partitioned into Ortenburg-Dorfbach, Ortenburg-Neuortenburg and Ortenburg-Altortenburg 1460: Reunited by Ortenburg-Neuortenburg 1517: Acquired Mattighofen 1805: To Bavaria; received in exchange Tambach 1806: Tambach to Bavaria |
| Ortenburg-Altortenburg |
County | n/a | n/a | 1395: Partitioned from Ortenburg | 1416: Acquired Niederaltaich Abbey 1446: Extinct; to Ortenburg-Neuortenburg |
| Ortenburg-Dorfbach |
County | n/a | n/a | 1395: Partitioned from Ortenburg | 1431: Imperial immediacy 1460: Extinct; to Ortenburg-Neuortenburg |
| Ortenburg-Kraiburg |
County | n/a | n/a | 1188: Partitioned from Ortenburg | 1200: Acquired Rotter 1208: Acquired County Palatine of Bavaria and Neuburg 1217: Acquired Griesbach-Waxenberg 1239: Lost Ramsau and territories in Brixen to Regensburg 1248: Extinct in male line; lost County Palatine of Bavaria 1256: To Werdenberg-Sargans by marriage 1259: Sold to Lower Bavaria |
| Ortenburg-Murach |
County | n/a | n/a | 1238: Partitioned from Ortenburg-Ortenburg | 1268: Made fief of Upper Bavaria 1272: Sold to Upper Bavaria 1285: Extinct |
| Ortenburg-Neuortenburg |
County | n/a | n/a | 1395: Partitioned from Ortenburg | 1445: Acquired Saldenburg 1460: Renamed to Ortenburg |
| Ortenburg-Ortenburg |
County | n/a | n/a | 1188: Partitioned from Ortenburg | 1217: Acquired Neustadt 1229: Imperial immediacy 1238: Partitioned into itself and Ortenburg-Murach 1257: Extinct; to Gebhard of Ortenburg-Murach 1272: Renamed to Ortenburg |
 Osnabrück |
Bishopric | Low Rhen | EC | 783: Fief of Saxony | 1180: Fief of Tecklenburg 1226: HRE Prince of the Empire 1236: Imperial immediacy After 1648: Osnabrück alternately ruled by a Protestant Administrator and Catholic Prince-Bishop 1803: To Hanover 1806: To Prussia 1807: To Westphalia 1810: To France 1815: To Hanover |
 Osterberg |
Lordship 1712: Barony |
n/a | n/a | 1225: First mentioned; to Elchingen Abbey | by 1448: Sold to Ochsenhausen Abbey 1455: Sold to Rechberg-Hohenrechberg 1460: To Rechberg-Kronburg 1577: To Rechberg-Osterberg 1679: Sold to Meyer von Röfingen auf Bühl who assumed the name Osterberg 1712: HRE Barony 1806: To Bavaria |
| Öttingen See: Oettingen |
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 Ottobeuren |
Abbacy | Swab | SP | 764 | 1299: Imperial immediacy 1624: Fief of the Bishopric of Augsburg 1710: Imperial immediacy 1802: To Bavaria |
 Overijssel |
Lordship | Burg | n/a | 11th Century: Territory nominally ceded to the Bishopric of Utrecht as the Oversticht | 1336: To Guelders 1347: To the Bishopric of Utrecht 1528: To the Spanish Netherlands; Burgundian Circle 1580: To the Netherlands 1795: To the Batavian Republic 1810: To France 1815: To the Netherlands |
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