page_title: Lordship of Anholt
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Lordship of Anholt / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Map showing location of the Herrschaft von Anholt, scanned from plate 37 "Nordwestdeutschland 1789" of the 1905 edition of F.W.Putzger's Historischer Schul-Atlas. The black borders and colouring show frontiers as in 1789; the red borders show frontiers as in 1905.
context_page_description: The Lordship of Anholt was a small state of the Holy Roman Empire. It was an imperial estate and a member of the Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle.
context_section_description: The state consisted only of the City of Anholt in the present-day District of Borken in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia. It had received town privileges in 1347 and finally was incorporated into the City of Isselburg in 1975. The Lordship bordered three larger states: the Duchy of Guelders, the Bishopric of Münster, and the Duchy of Cleves.
caption: Map as in 1789, with Anholt in upper centre
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