Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (older line)
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg was from 1622 to 1779 a line of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg , a branch line of the House of Oldenburg .
history
The line was created when Duke Johann von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg divided his divided duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg into his will among five of his six surviving sons. The partial dukes were enfeoffed by the Danish king as feudal lords of the Duchy of Schleswig . Although they carried the full titles of the Oldenburgs, they were not involved in the joint government of the duchies.
Johann's youngest son Philipp (1584–1663) founded the older Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg line. It had its headquarters at Glücksburg Castle , after which the line was named. Its territory was the smallest of the partial duchies and, at the beginning of 210 plows, comprised little more land than the property of wealthy nobles. This included large parts of the parishes Broaker , Nübel , Düppel and Ulderup in the Sundewitt region north of the Flensburg Fjord and the area around Glücksburg with the parish of Munkbrarup , as well as the small parish of Neukirchen founded by Duke Johann (now part of Steinbergkirche ).
Because of the small size of their land and the dependence on the feudal lord, the dukes remained politically insignificant. All the more they insisted on the rights that they raised above the nobility: although the duchy only had six churches and the castle chapel of Glücksburg, the dukes had church sovereignty. They founded a consistory and issued their own church and school regulations.
The first three dukes were able to almost double their territory through skillful administration. After sales by the penultimate Duke Friedrich 1749–1756, the area shrank back to its original size. With the death of Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm , the divided duchy fell back in 1779 as the last of the divided duchies to the entire Danish state .
After the widow of the last duke died in 1824, the Danish King Friedrich VI. In 1825 the title, albeit without sovereign rights, to Friedrich Wilhelm from the Beck line, who thus founded the younger Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg line.
Dukes
| Reign | Surname | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1622-1663 | Philip | Founder of the line |
| 1663-1698 | Christian | son |
| 1698-1729 | Philipp Ernst | son |
| 1729-1766 | Friedrich | son |
| 1766-1779 | Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm | son |
literature
Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen: The older Glückburg dukes . In the S. u. a. (Ed.) on behalf of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History: Die Fürsten des Landes. Dukes and Counts of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg . Neumünster: Wachholtz, 2008, ISBN 978-3-529-02606-5 , pp. 271-290