Hallesch power verdict

The Halle power ruling was a ruling by a princely court of arbitration, with which the disputes over the division of the Wettin lands were decided on December 11, 1445 in the Neuwerk monastery near Halle an der Saale .

background

After the death of Friedrich IV. Between his nephews Friedrich II. And Wilhelm III. Disagreements about the division of the Wettin lands, especially the Landgraviate of Thuringia , which ultimately led to the division of Altenburg .

Due to ongoing disputes about the division of territory, Archbishop Friedrich von Magdeburg , Margrave Friedrich II of Brandenburg and Landgrave Ludwig I of Hesse met in December 1445 as arbitrators in the Neuwerk monastery and decided on the final award. Friedrich II received the Kurkreis and the eastern parts of Saxony ( Meißen , Altenburg , Burgau and Zwickau ), Thuringia and the Franconian possessions fell to his brother Wilhelm, Freiberg should be governed by both of them.

Despite recognition of the award by King Friedrich III. However, the dispute escalated to the Saxon Civil War and only after the Peace of Naumburg did both sides agree to the new division in 1451.

swell

• Frank-Lothar Kroll : The rulers of Saxony: margraves, electors, kings 1089-1918 . Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54773-7 , pp. 47-48
• Manfred Schulze : Princes and Reformation: spiritual reform policy of secular princes before the Reformation . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-16-145738-2 , p. 46