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8 unusual facts about Rochlitz


Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach

Sharing in the attack on the Electorate of Saxony, Albert was taken prisoner at Rochlitz in March 1547 by Elector John Frederick of Saxony, but was released as a result of the Emperor's victory at the Battle of Mühlberg in the succeeding April.

Amalia of Saxony, Duchess of Bavaria

Amalia acquired from her brothers and Rochlitz Castle and district, where she lived with a large entourage.

August Friedrich Müller

August Friedrich was born in Penig, the son of Johann Adam Müller and his wife Johanne Susanne, daughter of a pharmacist in Rochlitz, Johann Fromhold.

Dedi III, Margrave of Lusatia

From 1156, Count of Groitzsch and also Count of Rochlitz, and from 1185 also Margrave of Lusatia and Count of Eilenburg and Landsberg.

Jana Bode

Born in Rochlitz, she won five medals at the FIL World Luge Championships, including one gold (Women's singles: 1996), two silvers (Women's singles: 1997, Mixed team: 1996), and two bronzes (Women's singles: 1990, 1991).

Joachim, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau

Immediately after the fall of the wall in 1990, he returned to his homeland in Saxony, and from 1990 to 1994, served as a member of the Bundestag for the representative district, which included the communities of Glauchau, Rochlitz, Hohenstein, Ernstthal and Hainichen, in Saxony, for the Christian Democratic Union.

Johann Walter

According to a document filed with his will, he was born with the surname of Blanckenmüller, but adopted out of poverty by a citizen of Kahla, and given an education at Kahla and Rochlitz under his new name, Johann Walter.

Johannes Mathesius

Johannes Mathesius (June 24, 1504 in Rochlitz – October 7, 1565), also called Johann Mathesius or John Mathesius, was a German minister and a Lutheran reformer.


Agnes of Rochlitz

Agnes of Rochlitz (died 1195) came from the Wettin family and was daughter of Dedi III, Margrave of Lusatia and his wife, Matilda of Heinsburg.

Johann Friedrich Rochlitz

Her previous husband had been the Leipzig businessman Daniel Winkler and brought Winkler's precious art collection (including a Rembrandt painting) with her on her marriage to Rochlitz.

Stephen Charlie's prostitution of a child

Corporal Kathy Rochlitz of the West Shore Royal Canadian Mounted Police asserted that many of the smaller communities in British Columbia don't regularly investigate similar cases, but the RCMP wanted to share information about this particular instance of child prostitution "to make people realize it does happen" and that "it may be seen more regularly in bigger centres."


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