It became an independent political entity after the war of Thuringian succession saw Henry I the Child found the Brabant dynasty.  
It became an independent political entity after the war of Thuringian succession saw Henry I the Child found the Brabant dynasty.  The Lutheran Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous split it among his four sons, who established capitals at Rheinfels, Marburg, Kassel, and Darmstadt. In the northeast the Fulda River drains to the Weser past Bad Hersfeld, while the mountains of the south and west include the Odenwald and the Taunus.  The capital of the current Bundesland is Wiesbaden, while its largest city is Frankfurt-am-Main. FTP, name this German region, notorious for supplying mercenaries to Britain during the American Revolution.
It became an independent political entity after the war of Thuringian succession saw Henry I the Child found the Brabant dynasty.  
Hesse (or: Hessen)