One of the smallest sovereign states of the German Empire and one of the oddest — two disconnected fragments 30 miles apart, the upland county of Waldeck on the Eder and the tiny spa principality of Pyrmont on the Emmer. Too poor to carry its federal military and administrative burden, it handed its entire government over to Prussia by treaty in 1867 while keeping its prince.
The monarchy was abolished in the November 1918 revolution; the Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont survived in the Weimar Republic until it was divided between Prussian provinces in 1929.
Recent legal-constitutional history of this state specifically, covering the 1852 constitution and the Prussian accession treaties.
Documents the fiscal collapse that forced the 1867 handover of government to Prussia.