Kurhessen was the name widely used from 1815 for the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, whose sovereign had been elevated to Elector (titular elector) in 1803. In a broader sense, Kurhessen or the Electorate of Hesse referred to the entirety of the territories ruled by the Elector, which were only placed under a unified administration with the administrative reform of 1821. Dissolved by Napoleon in 1807, the largest part of the area came under the Kingdom of Westphalia. The Electorate was restituted by the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 and was then a member of the German Confederation until it was annexed by Prussia in 1866.
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