page_title: Babenhausen, Hesse
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Babenhausen, Hesse / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Außenansicht der Stadtkirche Babenhausen (Hessen).
context_page_description: Babenhausen is a town in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, in Hesse, Germany.
context_section_description: The town of Babenhausen includes a medieval core with a castle (12-13th century), numerous old houses and a large part of the city wall (1445). Babenhausen was chartered as a town in 1295. It belonged first to the Lords of Hanau-Münzenberg and was – after the last male descendant of this family died - inherited by the Lords of Hanau in the 13th century. In 1458 a minor line of them (first called Hanau-Babenhausen, later called Hanau-Lichtenberg) founded a county (they had received the title of Graf (Count) in 1429) on its own within the town and its district. In 1736 the last of the family died and the two potential inheritors, the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt and of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) nearly went to war over it. It took 35 years to settle the conflict and to arrange a compromise under which the town of Babenhausen came to Hesse-Kassel. But this was soon revised by the territorial rearrangements during and after Napoleonic times: From the beginning 19th century Babenhausen belonged to Hesse-Darmstadt.
  In the aftermath of World War II Babenhausen was the site of a UNRRA-sponsored DP camp.
caption: Church and market place
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