The County of Ziegenhain (German: Grafschaft Ziegenhain) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire centred on the town of Ziegenhain in the modern German Land (state) of Hesse. Its main territory lay between Upper and Lower Hesse (the two main parts of the Landgraviate of Hesse, which had been parts of the Landgraviate of Thuringia before 1264), as well as the Abbey of Hersfeld to the east, the County of Waldeck to the northwest, and several small exclaves of the Electorate of Mainz. The counts of Ziegenhain also held the county of Nidda to the south of Upper Hesse.
The county existed from the middle ages until the death of the last count in 1450. The title was then granted to the rulers of Hohenlohe, who assumed the title Graf von Hohenlohe und zu Ziegenhain (Count of Hohenlohe and Ziegenhain); however, the county was de facto incorporated into Hesse. The counts of Hohenlohe would later abandon their claim and drop Ziegenhain from their title.
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