Bad Lauchstädt (until 1925 Lauchstädt ), officially Goethestadt Bad Lauchstädt , is a town in the district Saalekreis , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany , 13 km southwest of Halle . Population 8,781 (2020).
6-531: Lauchstädt was a popular watering-place in the 18th century, the dukes of Saxe-Merseburg often making it their summer residence. From 1789 to 1811 the Weimar court theatrical company gave performances here of the plays of Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , an attraction which greatly contributed to the well-being of the town. During the 19th century, its industries included malting, vinegar-making and brewing. In January 2008, Bad Lauchstädt incorporated
12-469: The "friend-brotherly main treaty" in the Saxon residence of Dresden on 22 April 1657 and a further treaty in 1663 delineating their territories and sovereign rights definitively. The treaties created three duchies: Saxe-Zeitz , Saxe-Weissenfels , and Saxe-Merseburg. Prince Christian, the third eldest son, received, among other properties, the estates of the former Bishopric of Merseburg , secularised in 1565:
18-583: The castles, cities and districts of Merseburg , Plagwitz , Rückmarsdorf, Delitzsch (with Delitzsch Castle), Bad Lauchstädt , Schkeuditz , Lützen , Bitterfeld , Zörbig , the County of Brehna as well as the Margraviate of Lower Lusatia , including the cities and castles of Lübben , Doberlug , Finsterwalde , Döbern , Forst and Guben . Many of these territories had belonged to the Diocese of Merseburg until it
24-555: The former municipalities Schafstädt , Delitz am Berge and Klobikau . On 1 January 2010 Milzau was also incorporated, disbanding the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Bad Lauchstädt . Bad Lauchstädt, Delitz am Berge, Klobikau, Milzau and Schafstädt are now Ortschaften or municipal divisions of the town Bad Lauchstädt. This Saalekreis location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Saxe-Merseburg The Duchy of Saxe-Merseburg
30-609: Was secularized in 1562. The area of Saxe-Merseburg stretched to the western city limits of Leipzig. The customs station was in what is now the inner city district of Lindenau. After the death of the last male heir of the Saxon branch line in 1738, the Duchy of Saxe-Merseburg fell back to the Electorate of Saxony . To supply his three younger sons with incomes befitting a duke, Duke Christian I created apanages for his younger sons during his lifetime. These territories remained dependent on
36-594: Was a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire , with Merseburg as its capital. It existed from 1656 or 1657 to 1738 and was owned by an Albertine secundogeniture of the Saxon House of Wettin . The Wettin Elector John George I of Saxony stipulated in his will dated 20 July 1652 that his three younger sons should receive secundogeniture principalities. After the elector died on 8 October 1656, his sons concluded
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