Vest Recklinghausen
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The Vest Recklinghausen was an ecclesiastical territory in the Holy Roman Empire, located in the center of today's North Rhine-Westphalia. It was bordered by the Bishopric of Münster in the north, the County of Mark and Essen Abbey in the south, to the west was the Duchy of Cleves.
In medieval times the area around Recklinghausen had become a possession of the Archbishopric of Cologne.
From 1446 to 1576 it was pleged to the lords of Gemen (now part of the city Borken) and Schaumburg-Lippe.
In 1803 it got into the possession of the Counts of Arenberg. In 1811 it was added to the earldom Berg, which in 1815 became part of the Prussian province Westphalia.
