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Waldeck was a county within the Holy Roman Empire from about 1200. In 1625 the principality of Pyrmont became part of the county.

In 1867 the administration was taken over by Prussia. It was absorbed into the German Empire in 1870, and the principality was abolished in 1918, when it became the state (Freistaat) Waldeck-Pyrmont of Germany. In 1922 the city of Pyrmont left the district, when its population decided in a plebisciteA referendum (plural: referendums or referenda or plebiscite is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. This may be the adoption of a new constitution, a constitutional amendment, a law, the r to join the Prussian province of HanoverAlternate meanings: Hanover (district), Hanover (region), Hanover (state), other uses Hanover (in German: Hannover [haˈnoːfɐ]), on the Leine river, is the capital of the state of Lower Saxony Niedersachsen in Germany. It is also the c (now Lower Saxony). 1929Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 See also 1929 in aviation 1929 in film 1929 in literature 1929 in mu, after another plebiscite, the remaining territory was annexed by Prussia as well; it became part of the province of Hesse-NassauThe Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau (German Hessen-Nassau was created in 1868 as a consequence of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 by combining the previously independent Electorate of Hesse ( Hesse-Kassel), the Duchy of Nassau, the Free Imperial City of (now Hesse).