Thanks for watching! Let me know other small countries you want me to cover. CORRECTION: the castle liechtenstein shown in the video is in Wuttenburg, Germany. The one I meant to put is in Austria. My mistake.
Yes, I also got confused by that in my research of the family. I corrected the mistake before putting it down in any written form though. (I do most of my work in my head.)
The castle that you have shown as the "Castle of the Liechtenstein Family" is in fact lying in Württemberg in germany and is named "Lichtenstein" - after a novel by the German Autor Wilhelm Hauff. It was built in the middle of the 19th century by a second born of the house of Württemberg. So it has nothing to do with "Liechtenstein" as a country.
A component you missed in the Austrian connection: The Houses of Habsburg-Lorraine and Liechtenstein were staunchly Roman Catholic, whereas the German Empire was unified under the Protestant Prussians.
Yes, but in that part of the world the big religious wars were fought 200 years earlier. Big parts of South and West Germany are Catholic, that didn't matter when creating the Empire.
Religion did not really come into the creation of the Prussian dominated German Empire as Bavaria was and is very much catholic but was a major player in the empire
It did once have an army. Sporting 12 soldiers. They went off and returned with 13. They picked a guy up who joined them. It became then clear that the idea of having an army is pointless and it was abolished.
@@bensteven3091 I heard that story countrless times and xyou managed to even get the numbers wrong. This never happened. In the austro-prussian war we were ally to the Habsburgs of Austria - they wanted to send our military to prussia but we refused fighting fellow germans in a war we havent started. In the end they sent our 82 men to a mountain pass in italy, where, after no fighting broke out, we were escorted back home by an austrian general. The woman, the elder and the children who counted the men while marching back upon arrival counted 83 and were confused. They hoped for 82 and got one more, this is how this legend started.
good overview but you missed a couple of things regarding the Rheinbund, Liechtenstein did not join it, not really anyways. At the time the prince of Liechtenstein was the Commander of the Austrian army. Napoleon respected his skills as such and out of that respect he included Liechtenstein into the Rheinbund but Liechtenstein never signed the the documents, since the prince was at war with napoleon.
The castle illustrated at 2:47 is Lichtenstein, not Liechtenstein, and it is in Baden-Wurttemberg, not Austria. It's a great place. Also, it was built in the 1800s.
So Liechtenstein is basically the feudal bordergore you end up making at some point in a CK3 game, and it survives over the ages as an eyesore until it just ends up as an independent state.
A curious little side note is that the current Jacobite pretender to the British throne (silly I know, since after more than 3 centuries on Britain’s throne of the branch of the house of Stuart descended from the youngest daughter of James I’s eldest daughter, instead of the youngest daughter of his youngest son, this is about as arcane a topic of conjecture as you can get, and frankly ain’t gonna happen anyway) is the Duke of Bavaria. And his eldest daughter (he has no son) is married to the heir of the current ruler Hans Adam. And they have a son. So at some point the Jacobite pretender will have this very little principality to rule and call his own.
I stumbled onto this side of RU-vid and ended up subscribing 😂 I … guess it’s interesting info and I love when the drawing lifts his hand and closes his eye in each video. It’s like a literary “mic drop” you’re about to drop some knowledge on us
I LOVE your youtube channel! I love your art and how you explain things, I haven't seen other channels talk about these things and you do it in such a easy to understand and entertaining way! I really hope you keep making more great videos
I learned a dozen years ago or more that Liechtenstein had at least SOME industry inside the principality. I noticed embossed in naturally tiny letters within the Neutrik XLR connectors our company bought the words "Made in Liechtenstein". Who knew!
Wow, I learned so much from this video on Liechtenstein! It's amazing how such a small country has such a rich and complex history. If you're interested in learning more about Liechtenstein, I highly recommend the book 'A Journey Through Liechtenstein's Fascinating History' by Lea Marie Nigg. It's a beautiful and informative book that offers a unique perspective on Liechtenstein's history
Liechtenstein's coat of arms is totally unrelated to the land itself, but a depiction of the princely family's title and succession claims. it uses the middle shield to represent "Prince of Liechtenstein", Q1 for Silesia which "Duchy of Opava and Krnov" is partitioned off from, Q2 for the Kuenringer family which have appointed them as their successors, Q3 for Opava, bottom corner for Krnov and Q4 for the County of Rietberg. nothing about "Vaduz", "Schellenberg" or "Hohenems family" got to be mentioned anyhow,
Small heads up : the picture you show at 2:40 is of the Schloss Lichtenstein im Land Baden-Württemberg, which never belonged to the Liechtenstein dynasty.
Generally interesting and good video! But im sorry I couldn’t make it through this one in one go. Tour accent had me torn between lmao and cringing. 😂🤣 But thanks for the great vid! 💕 Greetings from Germany.
Yoooo so THAT'S how it stuck around. Been kinda wondering 10 years easy but never taken time to research. Nice goin' Liechtenstein! Oh and thanks for the video!
Liechtenstein DID have an army. However it disbanded it after the dissolution of the German Confederation in 1866. Andreas Kieber, the last surviving solider of the Liechtenstein army, often would pose in uniform, appearing on a variety of postcards, until his death in 1939. Also note there is story ogten repeated, that during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, not only did all of Liechtenstein's 80 soldiers return home, they actually found a friend they recruited along the way, so they had *negative* war casualties.
Been there once, wasn't much to see (har har). All I remember was getting there through a one lane tunnel that had one of those automatic red light-green lights systems.
Perhaps another reason it’s been able to stay independent is that Liechtenstein is so hard to pronounce that whenever neighboring generals would go over invasion plans they would get to Liechtenstein, start to try and say it, give up and move on to a larger, easier to pronounce country. Just sayin (or trying to...)
Both neighboring countries of Liechtenstein are German speaking. And as a German speaker I can tell you that Liechtenstein is really easy to pronounce for us. So, your theory is only funny for non-German speakers.
Big Big error ! The castle shown in the video is not the castle of the country Liechtenstein in Vaduz it is the castle Lichtenstein in the federal state Baden-Württemberg in Germany. You have to change the animation to fix it, actually I live in the small town of Lichtenstein so I am pretty sure about this mistake. And yes I also think our castle is prettier... but it was build as a hunting castle after a romantic novel by Wilhelm Hauff went popular with the title The Lichtenstein.
Lichtenstein even tried to get back areas and castle that are now in the Czech Republic. But the Czechs said no. In the communist era these all went to the Czech state. The area used to belong to Austria.
The Holy Roman Emperor. In 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the Romans, reviving the title in Western Europe after more than three centuries, thus creating the Carolingian Empire, whose territory came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire. After the dissolution of the Carolingian Dynasty and the breakup of the empire into conflicting territories, Otto I became king of Francia and worked to unify all the German tribes into a single kingdom and greatly expand his powers. The title of Emperor was again revived in 962 when Otto I was crowned by Pope John XII, fashioning himself as the successor of Charlemagne and thus establishing the Holy Roman Empire. The Imperial Diet. Those nobility who attended the Diet were educated and trained in the duties of ruling their states. Many had to work themselves to have income. Democracy is in our modern worls where we elect an oligarchy of often uneducated to rule. The unelected bureaucracy runs the government. We don't vote on policy or legislation. Others do it.
That's the correct pronunciation in Standard American English. As a German speaker I realize that's not how it's pronounced by its inhabitants. Nonetheless, it's pretentious to pronounce it otherwise when speaking SAE.
wrong. The war you are talking about wasn't ww2 but the austria-prussian war, mentioned in the video. Shortly after that war, the army was disbanded. (I am from Liechtenstein)
@@bensteven3091 wrong. They left with 80 men and came back with 81. However, the 81th wasn't an italian friend or something similar, but rather just an austrian officer that accompanied them back
It was my understanding that the general public had recently voted the monarchy into supreme power disbanding the Parliament altogether as well as having a small volunteer army?!?
No and no. There was a referendum on cutting his powers but that was rejected, so nothing changed and parliament wasnt affected at all by this. And no, we do not have an army. I am a Liechtenstein Citizen in case you question the authenticity of my comment.
When I look at the geopolitics of Europe, particularly in the context of the past 3-4 centuries, I can’t understand how it is not a smoldering ruin, trashed by the natural decay of failed authoritarians. The fact it functions at all as the European Union is frankly staggering. Can you even imagine the various, inept, tribal fiefdoms of ‘America’ merging ideologies to function politically as, say, a ‘United States’ in the same period of years?! I know, I know. That’s extreme, but I hope it makes my point.
The EU was a consequence of those ruins, because for the first time since recorded history and only a brief moment, there were actually politicians at work who didn't want to continue the forever wars. Now the regular crop of politicians are back again and are trying to undo all of it, but that takes a bit of time.
@@peterg.8941 "liechtenstein" is not a rare name. And the castle has nothing to do,with that familiy and also nothing to do with the middle age. Its a building of the 19th centuriy. Poor research. Poor knowledge.
You would expect if someone decides to make a video about a country that this person at least learned the country's name first and how to pronounce it. There is no k in the name!
Saying Liechtenstein is prosperous BECAUSE it stayed small and that other countries could be prosperous if they stayed small is idiotic. In Liechtenstein's case it was not the size that made it rich, it was the connections. Besides, a country like Liechtenstein is only rich because it relies on rich bigger countries. Without them, it would be just small and poor.
@@sonofthebearking3335 it is a gross failure of logic, that's why I said it was idiotic.Lack of logic is the very definition of idiocy. Stop being triggered by every word, especialky when they are used right.
Entirely incorrect. If you make these sort of claims do your research first. Especially when you invoke logic and idiocy. Liechtenstein became rich for a number of reasons. It doesnt have an expensive army that serves no purpose. It started to develop industries that prospered and most important they started banking in the 50ies. That tapped into rich individuals but not bigger rich countries. As of today Liechtenstein has more employees than inhabitants.
Liechtenstein is not independent. In fact it is a part of Switzerland just without civil rights for its inhabitants. Like aarau or tessin used to be :) ;)
2:37 You got the image wrong mate, that was Castle Lichtenstein in Wurttemburg, Germany. But indeed the one you're referring to, Liechtenstein, is in Austria.
@@frax520l I'm sure he didn't mean the 7 years war of the 1756-1763 which also pitted Austria vs Prussia, but the Deutscher Krieg in 1866 which is called 7 weeks war in the english language amongst others.
I’ve been to Liechtenstein 🇱🇮 twice, mainly as a stopover either going to or coming back from Switzerland 🇨🇭. I didn’t even know I was in Liechtenstein if it were not for our tour guide declaring “Welcome to Liechtenstein.” It’s very quaint and quiet though. After watching this video, now I know why they like it that way, quaint and quiet.
It would be great if a documentory history series of Liechenstein and how they reacted when world 1 and 2 broke out and their reaction when they were the only medieval family to ruled a land
That General Assemblee is not a diet but a deet, pronunciationwise that is. Although you write Diet. The 'e' straight after the 'i' (so 'ie') means an elongated full vowel. So not "i" as in "this" but "ee" as in "sweet". Swiet, Diet etc. The spelling rules in German and Dutch speaking countries differ somewhat from the English speaking ones.
My little story, I spent three weeks in Liechtenstein waiting for a job application to be processed, when asked about where I had spent my three weeks outside of Switzerland, I replied 'Liechtenstein' my fremden politzi started laughing, told me Liechtenstein is independent in name and a couple of banking laws only. lol
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So they're are minor noblemen without any relevancy in history who now became rich due to the corruption of its banking system. Not a proud dynasty to be honest.
Listening to your explanation of feudal roots, lands ruled by small 'noble' families, I am reminded of large swathes of the southern US. Boss Hogg is a cultural meme for a reason, after all, as is the tendency of Americans to lynch inconvenient outsiders.
A friend once asked me to help him find the address of the Liechtenstein embassy in the U.S. This was the early Internet days, so I went online and the closest thing I could find found was the Liechtenstein Desk of the Swiss Consulate in New York City. I realized two things: Liechtenstein indeed is largely absorbed into Switzerland in terms of diplomacy, and I want to work at that Liechtenstein Desk. Gotta be an easy job.
Liechtenstein and Luxemburg are the last former Imperial German principalities (excluding Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Federal Germany and Belgium because they're more sizable and less continuous) , they exist because they were never mediased.
I once visited Liechtenstein. We ate an ice cream there. There is really nothing to experience. There are no tourists. While we ate an ice cream, the police wanted to see our papers. With the vehicle papers they walked around our car and caravan for half an hour. When our ice cream was finished we could continue. There was clearly nothing to do.
