Duchy of Magdeburg

Coordinates: 51°51′N 12°03′E / 51.850°N 12.050°E / 51.850; 12.050
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Duchy of Magdeburg
Herzogtum Magdeburg
1680–1807
Coat of arms of Magdeburg
Coat of arms
Halle
GovernmentDuchy
History 

1680
• Joined Kingdom of Prussia
1701
• Disestablished
1807
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Archbishopric of Magdeburg
Kingdom of Westphalia Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Westphalia
Kingdom of Prussia Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Prussia

The Duchy of Magdeburg (

Halle, while Burg was another important town. Dissolved during the Napoleonic Wars in 1807, its territory was made part of the Province of Saxony
in 1815.

History

The

August, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels.[1] The city of Magdeburg was also required to pay homage to the prince-electors of Brandenburg.[2] In 1666, Elector Frederick William used his developing army to install a permanent Brandenburger garrison in the city.[3]

Brandenburg-Prussia inherited the Archbishopric of Magdeburg upon the death of August of Saxe-Weissenfels in 1680 and reorganized the secularized territory as the Duchy of Magdeburg, with the electors of Brandenburg as hereditary dukes. The Halle region (

Calvinist chancellor was appointed to govern the duchy.[5] Through the leadership of August Hermann Francke, Halle became the center of Pietism in Brandenburg-Prussia.[5]

When Elector Frederick III crowned himself Frederick I, King in Prussia, in 1701, the Duchy of Magdeburg became part of the new Kingdom of Prussia. King Frederick William I's 'allodification of the fiefs', or efforts to modernize feudal land ownership laws, was opposed by the duchy's Junker nobility, which feared losing their tax-exempt status. The nobles received judgements from the imperial court in Vienna protecting their rights in 1718 and 1725.[6] Justus Henning Böhmer became chancellor of the province in 1743.

With the creation of the

Stassfurt and Halle salt deposits.[9]

The estates of Pomerania voluntarily raised 5,000 troops for the Prussian Army during the Seven Years' War; their initiative was duplicated by the nobility of Magdeburg and neighboring provinces.[10]

In the War of the

Napoleon in 1806. In the Treaty of Tilsit the following year, the Duchy of Magdeburg was dissolved. The ducal territory west of the Elbe River, including the cities of Magdeburg and Halle, were made part of the Kingdom of Westphalia, a client state of the First French Empire.[11]
The ducal territory east of the Elbe remained in a drastically reduced Kingdom of Prussia.

Prussia reacquired the Magdeburg and Halle territories during the War of the Sixth Coalition. In 1815, after the Napoleonic Wars, the territories of the Duchy of Magdeburg, the Altmark, and part of the Kingdom of Saxony were coalesced to create the new Prussian Province of Saxony.

Notes

  1. ^ Fay, p. 49
  2. ^ Koch, p. 48
  3. ^ Holborn, p. 29
  4. ^ Westermann, p. 106
  5. ^ a b Clark, p. 127
  6. ^ Clark, p. 91
  7. ^ Koch, p. 91
  8. ^ Clark, p. 159
  9. ^ Fay, p. 77
  10. ^ Clark, p. 220
  11. ^ Holborn, 385

References

  • ISBN 0-674-02385-4
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  • Fay, Sidney B.; Klaus Epstein (1964). The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia to 1786: Revised Edition. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. p. 146.
  • Holborn, Hajo (1964). A History of Modern Germany: 1648-1840. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Koch, H. W. (1978). A History of Prussia. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. p. 326.
    ISBN 0-88029-158-3
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  • Stier, Erich; Ernst Kirsten; Wilhelm Wühr; Heinz Quirin; Werner Trillmilch; Gerhard Czybulka; Hermann Pinnow; Hans Ebeling (1963). Westermanns Atlas zur Weltgeschichte: Vorzeit / Altertum, Mittelalter, Neuzeit (in German). Braunschweig: Georg Westermann Verlag. p. 170.

External links

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