Province of Hohenzollernball

Province of Hohenzollern was a German state. It was a de facto province of the Kingdom of Prussia It wascreated in 1850 by joining the principalities of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Hechingen after both formerly independently ruling Catholic princely lines of the House of Hohenzollern had handed over their sovereignty to Prussia, ruled by the Protestant Hohenzollern branch, today it is a state of Baden-Wuttemburg.