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unusual facts about Principality of Anhalt-Köthen



Albert IV, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

Albert IV, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (d. Coswig, 24 November 1423), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst until 1396, when he became the first ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Köthen.

Anhalt-Köthen

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

Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen

In Frankfurt-am-Main on 9 February 1792 Augustus Christian Frederick married Fredericka (b. Usingen, 30 August 1777 - d. Hochheim, 28 August 1821), daughter of Frederick Augustus, Prince of Nassau-Usingen and later (1806) Duke of Nassau.

On 15 May 1803 he was appointed Generalfeldmarschallleutnant and on 31 January 1805 made a knight of the Order of the Black Eagle.

Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

About 1720, Augustus Louis fell in love with Agnes Wilhelmine of Wuthenau (b. Plötzkau, 4 December 1700 - d. Köthen, 14 January 1725), of the old nobility of Anhalt and lady-in-waiting to his mother, the Dowager Princess Gisela Agnes.

Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau

#Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau, later Anhalt-Köthen (b. Plötzkau, 8 April 1622 - d. Köthen, 7 November 1669).

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#Emmanuel, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau, later Anhalt-Köthen (b. Plötzkau, 6 October 1631 - d. Köthen, 8 November 1670).

Bärlochsmühle

After Straßberg was ceded to the state of Anhalt this enfeoffment was reaffirmed in 1511 by Prince Wolfgang of Anhalt.

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.

Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen

On 24 January 1716 in Nienburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Eleonore Wilhelmine married for the second time, to Duke Ernest Augustus I of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach (1688-1748).

Emmanuel Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

On August 3 of that year Emmanuel Lebrecht assigned his wife the castle, city, and bailiwick of Nienburg as dowage for life and made her "tutrix and regent" in case of the minority of his successor, with the full approval of the agnates.

When Emmanuel Lebrecht was still a young prince, he fell in love with Gisela Agnes of Rath (b. Klein-Wülknitz near Köthen, 9 October 1669 - d. Nienburg, 12 March 1740), of an old noble family of Anhalt.

Nonetheless, Gisela Agnes was created Imperial Countess of Nienburg (German: Reichsgräfin von Nienburg) on 23 July 1694.

After the death of the Dowager Princess and formal assumption of the rule of his principality, Emmanuel Lebrecht sent for Gisela Agnes and they finally married in a secret ceremony in Nienburg on 22 May (30 September according to some sources) of 1692.

Emmanuel, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

In 1653, after the death of his father, Emmanuel inherited Plötzkau jointly with his older brothers Ernest Gottlieb and Lebrecht.

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Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

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with George II (until 1509)
and Sigismund III (until 1487)

Folding harpsichord

A folding harpsichord may have been owned by Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen during the time he employed Johann Sebastian Bach as his Kapellmeister.

Franz Krüger

Franz Krüger (10 September 1797, in Großbadegast, Köthen, Anhalt – 21 January 1857, in Berlin), known as Pferde-Krüger (“Horse-Krüger”), was a German (Prussian) painter and lithographer.

Gisela Agnes of Rath

Gisela Agnes of Rath (9 October 1669 in Kleinwülknitz, now part of Köthen – 12 March 1740 in Nienburg) was Duchess of Anhalt-Köthen by marriage from 1692.

Heinrichsberg Castle

In 1514 the princes, Ernest and Wolfgang of Anhalt, renewed the enfeoffment of Stolberg and Heinrichsberg Castle together with its estates, the village of Breitenstein, the then already deserted village of Ammacht, the copse near Gräfen Pond (Gräfenteich), a field near Güntersberge and the field at Lingesbach, half the village of Dankerode and other rights.

Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben

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Junkers Jumo 211

From 1937 to mid-1944, production was spread between factories in Magdeburg, Köthen, Leipzig, Stettin and Strasburg.

Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

Karl George Lebrecht was created a knight of the Order of the Black Eagle in 1780 and in 1787 was elevated to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall.

Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

After the death of his father in 1653, Lebrecht inherited Plötzkau jointly with his older brother Ernest Gottlieb and his younger brother Emmanuel.

Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau

As the head of the senior Anhalt branch, he could not earlier by etiquette receive his kinsmen, the Princes of Anhalt-Köthen and Anhalt-Bernburg, who were raised to that rank before him.

In 1812 Leopold became regent of the duchy of Anhalt-Köthen during the minority of Duke Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil.

Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt

Prince Leopold was born on 18 July 1855 in Dessau as the first child of Hereditary Prince Frederick of Anhalt-Dessau-Köthen and his wife Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg.

Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen

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With him, the main line of Anhalt-Köthen became extinct, and he was succeeded by his uncle Frederick Ferdinand, a member of the Anhalt-Köthen-Pless branch.

He was the second (but only surviving son) of Prince Louis of Anhalt-Köthen by his wife Louise Karoline Theodora Amalie, daughter of the later (1806) Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine.

Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (Köthen, 20 September 1802 – Leipzig, 18 December 1818), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the duchy of Anhalt-Köthen.

One year later, his uncle, the reigning Prince (and later Duke) Augustus Christian Frederick of Anhalt-Köthen divorced his wife after eleven years of childless union, and showed no interest in marrying again; this left Louis Augustus as his uncle's heir presumptive.

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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-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.

Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst

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

Wolfgang Ratke

In addition to Augsburg and Köthen, he put his method of instruction into operation in Amsterdam, Basel, Strassburg, Frankfurt, Weimar, and various other places.

Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

In 1562, however, he signed all of his territories over to his cousins, keeping only Coswig.


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