Wolfgang (Braunschweig-Grubenhagen)

Duke Wolfgang von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen (born April 6, 1531 in Herzberg am Harz ; † May 14, 1595 ibid) was prince in the Principality of Grubenhagen from 1567 to 1595 .

Life

Duke Wolfgang succeeded his late brother Ernst in the government of the small principality in 1567. Like most of his predecessors, he had money problems, which is why he was often forced to sell or pledge important property and collect high taxes.

Wolfgang signed the concord formula of 1577 and the concord book of 1580. In 1581 he granted the citizens of Herzberg the right to obtain firewood and construction wood as well as leaves for field fertilization. By founding the court school in Herzberg, he tried to improve the level of education in his country. In 1593, against the claims to power of the Counts of Stolberg, he took the County of Lauterberg - Scharzfeld as a settled fief. In the same year he confirmed the Harz Mountain Regulations of 1554 and granted the citizens of Herzberg the right to brew and sell wine.

For his wife Dorothea von Sachsen-Lauenburg (born March 11, 1543, † April 5, 1586) he laid out a pleasure garden below Herzberg Castle . The marriage remained without children, so his younger brother Philip II inherited the Principality of Grubenhagen in 1595. With his death, the Grubenhagen line of the Welfs finally died out.

His final resting place is next to his parents, brothers and his wife in the crypt of St. Aegidienkirche in Osterode .

literature

• Paul Zimmermann: The Braunschweig-Grubenhagen house. Wolfenbüttel 1911.

Web links

• Information about Wolfgang on welfen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See BSLK , p. 16 and p. 763.

predecessor	Office	successor
Ernst IV.	Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Prince of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen 1567–1595	Philip II