Duchy of Saxony-Hildburghausen

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Saxony-Hildburghausen (around 1680)
Coat of arms of the Duchy of Saxony-Hildburghausen
Hildburghausen Castle (approx. 1800)

Sachsen-Hildburghausen was an Ernestine duchy in the south of what is now the Free State of Thuringia . It existed from 1680 to 1826.

history

The principality of Saxony-Hildburghausen, which was awarded to the second youngest son, Ernst, was created through the inheritance agreement in 1680 among the seven sons of Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Gotha . The full sovereignty of Gotha was granted in 1702 when the principality was granted sovereignty.

The principality included the office and city of Hildburghausen , the office and city of Heldburg , the office and city of Eisfeld , the office of Veilsdorf and half of the office of Schalkau . In 1683 the Königsberg office was added, and the Sonnefeld office in 1705 . In addition, after the inheritance disputes ended in 1714, the principality received parts of Sachsen-Römhild , the Behrungen winery , the Echter fiefs and Milz in exchange for Schalkau . As a result of the "Schalkauer exchange contract" received the principality in 1723 by the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen from the Office Meiningen its exclave Queienfeld and out of the office Maßfeld the places Rentwertshausen , Berkach and Schwickershausen (Meiningischer share), which since then with Behrungen the Office Behrungen formed .

In 1684 Hildburghausen became a residential town and developed accordingly. However, the lavish royal court and the buildings of the princes shattered the finances of the principality so badly that from 1769 a compulsory debt management was set up by an imperial debit commission , of which the regent Charlotte Amalie von Sachsen-Meiningen was appointed director.

With the dissolution of the old empire in 1806, Saxony-Hildburghausen also received full sovereignty as the Duchy of Saxony-Hildburghausen, which joined the Rhine Confederation in 1806 and the German Confederation in 1815 . It was one of the first German states to receive a state constitution in 1818 .

The extinction of the line of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg in 1826 required a reorganization of the Ernestine duchies, Saxony-Hildburghausen fell to the offices of Koenigsberg and Sonnenfeld, the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to be slammed to Saxe-Meiningen . In return, Duke Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen took over the Duchy of Sachsen-Altenburg .

Princes and dukes

Other people

Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen (1792-1854), Queen of Bavaria, 1825

literature

  • Oliver Heyn: The Military of the Principality of Saxony-Hildburghausen (1680–1806) (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series, Vol. 47), Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2015
  • Heinrich Ferdinand Schoeppl: The dukes of Saxony-Altenburg. Bolzano, 1917, reprint Altenburg, 1992

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Description of the Henneberg office of Behrungen

Web links

Heraldic plaque at the Hildburghausen town hall . left: Saxony-Hildburghausen. In the upper part the lords of the Landgraviate of Thuringia , the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg , the Margraviate of Meißen , the County of Weimar-Orlamünde and Pleißen , in the heart shield Saxony , including the Wettin possessions, the Electorate of Saxony-Wittenberg , Landsberg and the Palatinate of Saxony . In the lower part a shelf sign , the Burggrafschaft Altenburg and the Herrschaft Eisenberg , including the past Herrschaft Wildberg and the Grafschaft Henneberg . right: City of Hildburghausen