Louis II, Count of Nidda

Louis II (died after 1289) was Count of Nidda, succeeding his father Gottfried IV. In 1258 a partition mediated by the archbishop of Mainz separated Nidda from the County of Ziegenhain, leaving Louis with Nidda and Neustadt.

Drawn into the Thuringian-Hessian war of succession, he backed Mainz against the landgraves of Hesse: around 1270 he built Neustadt Castle, but Hessian troops took it in 1273. In 1279 he pledged the Fulda Vogtei. His son Engelbert I succeeded him.