What is Hohenzollern-Hechingen?
{{Infobox country |native_name = |conventional_long_name = Hohenzollern-Hechingen |common_name = Hohenzollern-Hechingen |era = Middle Ages |status = Principality |empire = Holy Roman Empire |government_type = Principality |year_start = 1576 |year_end = 1850 |event_start = Partition of [[House of Hohenzollern#County of Zollern|County of<br>{{Spaces|4}}Hohenzollern]] |date_start = |event1 = Raised to Principality |date_event1 = 1623 |event_end = Incorporation into<br>{{Spaces|4}}[[Kingdom of Prussia]] |date_end = |event2 = House extinction |date_event2 = 1869 |p1 = House of Hohenzollern#County of Zollern{{!}}Zollern |image_p1 = [[File:Wappen Hechingen.svg|20px|County of Zollern]] |s1 = Province of Hohenzollern |flag_s1 = Flagge Preußen - Provinz Hohenzollern.svg |image_flag = Flag of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Sigmaringen.png |image_coat = Coat of Arms of the Principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.svg |flag = |flag_type = |image_map = Hohenzollern-Hechingen.svg |image_map_caption = Hohenzollern-Hechingen in 1848 |capital = [[Hechingen]] |national_motto = {{Lang-la|Nihil Sine Deo}}<br>(''Nothing without God'') |national_anthem = |common_languages = [[Swabian German]] |religion = Roman Catholic |currency = }} '''Hohenzollern-Hechingen''' was a county and principality in southwestern [[Germany]], part of what is now [[Baden-Württemberg]]. Its rulers were members of a branch of the senior [[Swabia]]n branch of the [[Hohenzollern]] family. ==History== The County of Hohenzollern-Hechingen was created in 1576, when the [[Zollern|County of Hohenzollern]] was divided. The county was ruled as a part of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. When the last count of Hohenzollern, [[Karl I of Hohenzollern|Charles I of Hohenzollern]] (1512–1579) died, the territory was to be divided up between his three sons: * [[Eitel Friedrich IV of Hohenzollern-Hechingen|Eitel Frederick IV of Hohenzoll