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2 unusual facts about Principality of Anhalt-Dornburg


Principality of Anhalt-Dornburg

The principality lasted until 1742 when Princes Christian August and John Louis II inherited Anhalt-Zerbst.

It was created in 1667 following the death of Prince John VI and the partition of Anhalt-Zerbst with Anhalt-Mühlingen being created along with Anhalt-Dornburg for the younger sons of Prince John VI.


Anhalt-Köthen

It was created for a second time in 1603 with the partition of Anhalt-Zerbst.

Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau

title=Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau|

Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst

Dorothea von Anhalt-Zerbst (25 September 1607, Zerbst – 26 September 1634, Hitzacker) was a member of the House of Askanier and a princess of Anhalt-Zerbst and by marriage Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

Emmanuel, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

title=Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau

Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

title=Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
with George II (until 1509)
and Sigismund III (until 1487)

Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben

title=Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben|

John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

#John Louis I, Prince of Anhalt(-Zerbst)-Dornburg (b. Zerbst, 4 May 1656 – d. Dornburg, 1 November 1704).

Langendernbach

Langendernbach is a village in the municipality Dornburg, Limburg-Weilburg district, Hesse, in western Germany.

Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen

title=Duke of Anhalt-Köthen|

Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben

Henry II the Fat, the eldest son of Henry I, had been co-ruler of his father since 1244.

When in 1315 Henry's grandson Otto II died without male heirs, the principality — including the capital of Aschersleben — was seized as a fief by his cousin and creditor Bishop Albert of Halberstadt.

In the course of the partition he chose the Anhalt ancestral homeland north of the Harz mountains around the Ascanian residence of Aschersleben (Ascharia), which he granted town privileges in 1266.

Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst

Sophie Auguste Fredericke (Empress Catherine II of Russia) 1793–1796 (only in Jever)


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