Franconian District (Electorate of Saxony)
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| Franconian District (administrative district in the Electorate of Saxony ) | |
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| as part of the Electorate of Saxony from 1425
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| Consist | 1527-1553 / 1572 |
| Arose from | Care Coburg |
| Form of rule | Imperial loan to 1425 Electorate of Saxony |
| Ruler / government | Kaiser HRR , Elector of Saxony |
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DE-BY , DE-TH
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| Reichskreis | Upper Saxon Imperial Circle |
| Capitals / residences | Coburg |
| Dynasties | Wettiner |
| Denomination / Religions | Lutheran since the Reformation |
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German ( Itzgründisch )
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Principality of Saxony-Coburg
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The Franconian District was an administrative district in the Electorate of Saxony and is therefore the historical name of an East Franconian territory that later essentially corresponded to the Principality of Saxony-Coburg . The Wettins had previously used the term Ortslande zu Franken for the same area . It extends over today's districts of Coburg in the Free State of Bavaria and Hildburghausen and Sonneberg in the Free State of Thuringia . Small parts of the Ilm district ( Neustadt am Rennsteig ), the district of Lichtenfels ( Buch am Forst ) and the district of Kronach ( Schneckenlohe ), for which the district membership was only changed in the 1990s and 1970s, are also included here.
history
After the division of Leipzig , the Electorate of Saxony was then divided into four administrative districts in 1527 . From the Franconian care of Coburg , formerly part of the Franconian county of Henneberg , the administrative district of Fränkischer Kreis was created.
The church visitation carried out by the Electoral Saxon church in the Coburg branch in 1528 had the title Visitation in the Franconian region .
In 1553 the area changed to the Duchy of Saxony .
Later, until the 19th century, a complex linguistic usage emerged for the area belonging to the Upper Saxon Empire. On the one hand, one spoke of the Franks outside of Germany when one meant the Frankish Reichskreis. On the other hand, Thuringia was usually very clearly not assigned to, even distanced itself from it, and nevertheless saw itself as part of Franconia.
literature
- Uwe Schirmer : Saxon State Finances (1456-1656). Structures - Constitution - Functional Elites , Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08955-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reformation portal - overview of the visitations ( Memento from December 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive )