Regensburg partition agreement

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The Regensburg partition agreement came into being when the Hohenzollerns redefined the borders between their principalities of Ansbach and Kulmbach in 1541 . These two territories were created when the Burgraviate of Nuremberg (the Franconian ancestral lands of the Hohenzollern) was divided up in accordance with the Dispositio Achillea in 1486 .

The burgrave Nuremberg was mainly from the untergebirgischen country to Ansbach and the obergebirgischen country passed to Kulmbach and Bayreuth (the term mountain was referring to the Muggendorfer Mountains - the then usual designation of the Franconian Switzerland ).
When the country was divided in 1486, the Principality of Ansbach was formed from the lower mountain area, while the Principality of Kulmbach was created with the second part. However, this division had only taken into account the geographical conditions, but not the economic profitability of the two new principalities. Because of the barren nature of the Upper Mountain Country, the income generated there was significantly lower than in the more fertile Lower Mountain Country. The Regensburg partition treaty eliminated this imbalance and created two economically equivalent territories. For this purpose, some sub-mountain areas (mainly around Erlangen and Neustadt ad Aisch ) were finally annexed to the Principality of Kulmbach (after they had previously been ruled temporarily from the Kulmbach Residence). The average income for the years 1533 to 1539 was used as the assessment basis for the even distribution.

Another passage in the treaty concerned the indivisibility of the Mark Brandenburg . This had already been formulated in the Dispositio Achillea and has now been laid down as a permanent and valid regulation.

The reason for the Regensburg partition agreement, which was concluded on July 23, 1541, was the takeover of government by Albrecht Alcibiades in the Principality of Kulmbach. After the untimely death of his father, Kasimir von Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Albrecht Alcibiades was brought up by his uncle and guardian Georg the Pious , who also took over the reign of the Kulmbach part of the country when he was a minor. After Albrecht Alcibiades came of age, he and his uncle agreed in the Regensburg partition agreement on the new boundaries of his principality.

literature

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