Saarwerden

Saarwerden was a county on the Saar in Lorraine, held as a mediate fief of the Holy Roman Empire, with its capital at Bockenheim.

In 1397 Archbishop Frederick of Cologne inherited the county and passed it to his stepbrother, the Count of Moers. Johann Ludwig of Nassau-Saarbrücken inherited through his wife Katharina in 1527. Count Adolf introduced the Reformation in 1556 and settled French Calvinist refugees in the Seven Gallic Villages. After Lorraine was annexed by France in 1766, Saarwerden remained an imperial enclave until French occupation in 1793.