Zerbst division
In the division of Zerbst on December 28, 1797, the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst was divided into the three remaining lines of Anhalt-Dessau , Anhalt-Köthen and Anhalt-Bernburg .
root cause
This was preceded by the death of Prince Friedrich August in 1793 , who left no male heirs. According to the Anhalt house contract , its territory now had to be divided equally among the existing lines. The preparation of the division was entrusted to Prince Friedrich Albrecht von Anhalt-Bernburg as senior of the entire house.
execution
After the determination and separation of the fiefdom (feudum) of the entire house from the family's own property (allodium), the first step was to determine their claims with the widow Friederike and the Tsarina Katharina II ; The tsarina was born Princess Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg and older sister of the last Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, chief heiress of the Allodium and had previously taken possession of the Jever rule independently of the inheritance dispute with the entire Anhalt family, which they did not stood in a fiefdom association with the entire house and was assigned to her alone as a Kunkellehen (female succession). After lengthy negotiations, in the Zerbst Treaty of November 22, 1795, Katharina's claims to the Allodium were settled against payment of a principal sum of 175,000 Reichstalers.
In a second step, after long negotiations with the Electorate of Saxony, in a recess on June 15, 1796 , the three remaining lines of the House of Anhalt were re-enfeoffed with the Walternienburg man fief and all accessories - but without the sovereignty that the elector reserved. In addition, a commission was set up to determine the exact extent of the mutual goods.
Now that the total extent of the estate had been determined, the joint administration of the former principality of Anhalt-Zerbst was broken down into three "lots" and these were distributed on December 28, 1797:
- Leopold III. Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau received in particular the city and the Zerbst office (excluding the villages of Stackelitz and Weiden), the villages of Nedlitz and Reuden from the Lindau office, some accessories from the Roßlau office and the aforementioned Walternienburg office. Added to this were the manors Dobritz , Grimme , Jütrichau , Krakau (near Coswig), Polenzko and Golmenglin (near Grimme)
- Alexius Friedrich Christian von Anhalt-Bernburg received in particular the offices of Coswig and Mühlingen , the Thießen and Hundeluft estates , part of the Roßlau office and the villages of Stackelitz and Weiden from the Zerbst office. In addition the manors Klieken , Buro (near Coswig) and Senst ,
- August Christian Friedrich von Anhalt-Köthen finally received the offices of Roßlau , Lindau and Dornburg - with the exception of the parts that fell to the other two lines - as well as the manors Necken (near Roßlau) and Garitz (near Zerbst)
consequences
In the course of the division of the estate, the territorial claims of Saxony and Anhalt were clarified and delimited as well as the partial adjustment of free float within the Anhalt territory.
The "external possession" Jever was the prince Johann VI. von Anhalt-Zerbst was inherited from Anton Günther , the brother of his mother Magdalene von Oldenburg , with the property of female succession expressly granted by the feudal lord in the absence of male descendants. Jever was therefore not part of the general fiefdom of the Anhalt family and was therefore permanently lost. With the exception of the years 1807 to 1813, the rule remained under Russian sovereignty until 1818.
Katharina appointed her sister-in-law Friederike Auguste Sophie , widow of the last Zerbst prince, as governor , who was also reserved for the daily usufruct of the Allodium of the Zerbst line. As 1806 Jever by French troops occupied and after the Peace of Tilsit of Napoleon the Kingdom of Holland was annexed, they fled so for clues and lived until her death (1827) in Coswig.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Johann Friedrich Schulze: The house laws of the ruling German princely houses: Volume 1. The Anhalt house laws. ... F. Mauke 1883, p. 15. Digitized at Google
- ↑ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands: the German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. CH Beck, 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 16 ff.