# County of Castell

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'''Castell''' was a [county](/source/county) of northern [Bavaria](/source/Bavaria), [Germany](/source/Germany), comprising a string of territories in the historical region of [Franconia](/source/Franconia), both east and west of [Würzburg](/source/W%C3%BCrzburg). It was ruled by the [Counts of Castell](/source/Counts_of_Castell).

Little is known about the [noble](/source/German_nobility) House of Castell, although they were the counts of Kreis Gerolzhofen, Regierungsbezirk, and Unterfranken of Bavaria. They were a member of the ''Fränkische Grafenkolleg'' ("Franconian Counts College"). The two main branches of the House of Castell were Castell-Remlingen ([Protestant](/source/Protestantism)) and Castell-Rüdenhausen (Protestant and [Catholic](/source/Roman_Catholic_Church)).

Castell was composed of three territories (''Flecken'') and 28 villages,{{Citation needed|date=October 2025}} with about 10,000 inhabitants at the time of mediatisation. The County of Castell joined Bavaria in 1806.<ref>{{cite book |title=Bayerische Landesgeschichte |date=2009 |publisher=Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung |location=München |isbn=978-3-88795-360-7 |page=152 |url=https://www.hss.de/download/publications/Leitfaden_Bayerische-Landesgeschichte.pdf |access-date=20 October 2025 |language=DE}}</ref>

==Partitions of Castell==
*Castell-Remlingen (1597–1806)
** later split into [Castell-Castell](/source/Castell-Castell) (1668–1806)
*[Castell-Rüdenhausen](/source/Castell-R%C3%BCdenhausen) (1597–1806)

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