Hereditary lands

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Hereditary lands or hereditary states were the areas of a state in which a prince ruled by inheritance law . B. on the newly conquered or acquired by international treaties.

In the former Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation , hereditary lands were the lands of the German emperor, which he inherited as imperial prince, in contrast to the rest of Germany, of which he was the elected emperor, but which was not part of his immediate sphere of influence. Due to the inheritance of the fiefs and the Reichstag , there were restrictions there that the monarch was not subject to in his own inherited possessions.

Habsburg

In this sense, the Alpine core areas of Austria and Bohemia , but also some countries outside the empire such as Hungary  - in contrast to independent imperial principalities and politically acquired territories ( Voivodina or Lesser Poland ) - were referred to as the hereditary lands of the House of Habsburg .

Saxony

In relation to the Kingdom of Saxony , the term separates the Meissnian ancestral land with the center of Dresden from the Lusatia, which was incorporated by treaty .

Both margraviates were transferred to the Saxon electors in 1635 as hereditary fiefs from the Bohemian crown. (See Erbländischer Taler / history of coins )

Silesia

In Silesia those principalities were designated as hereditary lands, which came to the Bohemian Crown by testamentary decree of the respective last ruling prince or by confiscation of the fief : first the Duchy of Breslau ( 1335 ), then the Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer ( 1392 ) and last in 1675 the Duchy of Liegnitz-Brieg-Wohlau .