In Württemberg when it became a Kingdom the Royal Family was again protestant, only one junior line (the only one still surviving till today) became again catholic after the marriage to a Princess of Orléans. As for the population the Are4a's around Stuttgart whre mainly protestant but in Upper Swabia mainly catholic.
As for Prussia the had many parts where the ppulation was catholic in and around Koblenz and what is today's Nordrhine-Westphalia.
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: As I understand, Germany had five kingdoms
: before World War I. Only one of them
: (Bavaria) was solidly Catholic -- in terms
: of sovereigns and subjects. Hanover and
: Prussia were solidly Protestants. But
: Saxony and Württemberg were mixed: I believe
: the subjects in both were Protestants, but
: the sovereigns were Catholics -- thanks to a
: change of hands through intermarriages. Is
: this true?
:
: As for the smaller German states that were
: Catholics, I can think of only two: the
: princely house of Hohehnzollern-Sigmaringen
: and the Kohary branch of the ducal house of
: Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The present Belgian
: sovereign, although descending from the
: former, actually descends from the
: Protestant branch of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
:
: Anyhow, what were other German houses that
: were Catholics?
:
Stefan137
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