thank you for your answer i am reading the article on hessen darmstadt redirects to it and it says in it became a constituent state of the german empire so that's not sovereign anymore anything before that until maybe but not after the founding of the german empire all state monarchies lost their sovereignty here is also a list of all the states category states of the holy roman empire imo they only had sovereignty between the end of the holy roman empire from until the foundation of the second reich in the only monarchies that retained their sovereignty were austria hungary luxembourg and liechtenstein all others were incorporated and became mere states of the german empire