Other Outsourced Halberstadt Territory
This page covers two Halberstadt Ämter that were typically administered by outside parties:
- Amt Winningen, which was originally Regenstein territory, but did not follow the same administrative pattern as the rest of that territory, and
- Amt Weferlingen, an exclave to the north of the main body of Halberstadt surrounded by Brandenburg.
The two Ämter had a common administrator at times.
Index of simplified country names referenced on this page
Bishopric of Halberstadt (adm. Anhalt-Köthen)
- Simplified country name: Halberstadt-Köthen
- Nation: Ecclesiastical Germany
- Predecessors
- Bishopric of Halberstadt (adm. Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel) (1599-1616)
- Bishopric of Halberstadt (1616-1623)
- Chronology
- 1623: Created
- 1643: Terminated
- Successor: Bishopric of Halberstadt (adm. Count of Königsmark)
Subdivisions of Halberstadt-Köthen
- Amt Winningen1623 - 1643
Bishopric of Halberstadt (adm. Count of Königsmark)
- Simplified country name: Halberstadt-Stade (1)
- Nation: Ecclesiastical Germany
- Predecessor: Bishopric of Halberstadt (adm. Anhalt-Köthen)
- Chronology
- 1643: Created
- 1648: Terminated
- Successor: Principality of Halberstadt (adm. Count of Königsmark)
(1) The Count was busy fighting in the Thirty-Years War and had no fixed base. I use Stade in anticipation of his post-1648 base.
Principality of Halberstadt (adm. Count of Königsmark)
- Simplified country name: Halberstadt-Stade (2)
- Nation: Hohenzollern Germany
- Predecessor: Bishopric of Halberstadt (adm. Count of Königsmark)
- Chronology
- 1648: Created
- 1650: Acquisition of Amt Weferlingen from Halberstadt
- 1663: Terminated
- Successor: Principality of Halberstadt (adm. Hesse-Homburg)
(2) During this period, the Count of Königsmark operated out of Stade, where he served as Governor-General over the Duchy of Bremen and the Principality of Verden on behalf of Sweden. His Halberstadt territories, however, were in no sense Swedish.
Subdivisions of Halberstadt-Stade
- Amt Weferlingen1650 - 1663
- Amt Winningen1643 - 1663
Principality of Halberstadt (adm. Hesse-Homburg)
- Simplified country name: Halberstadt-Homburg
- Nations
- Hohenzollern Germany (1663-1701)
- Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1806)
- Predecessor: Principality of Halberstadt (adm. Count of Königsmark)
- Chronology
- 1663: Created
- 1701: Separation of Amt Weferlingen to Halberstadt, then to Halberstadt-Kulmbach
- 1806: Terminated/end of database
- Successor: Kingdom of Westphalia (Napoleonic client)
Subdivisions of Halberstadt-Homburg
- Amt Weferlingen1663 - 1701
- Amt Winningen1663 - 1806
Principality of Halberstadt (adm. Margrave of Kulmbach)
- Simplified country name: Halberstadt-Kulmbach (3)
- Nation: Kingdom of Prussia
- Predecessors
- Principality of Halberstadt (adm. Hesse-Homburg) (1663-1701)
- Principality of Halberstadt (1701-1703)
- Chronology
- 1703: Created
- 1722: Terminated
- Successor: absorbed back into Principality of Halberstadt
(3) The administrator was a landless member of the Bayreuth-Kulmbach line of the Hohenzollern family who was offered Weferlingen in exchange for giving up his claim to Bayreuth. His son reneged on the agreement and was stripped of Weferlingen in 1722. The ruling Bayreuth line had no role in the administration.
Subdivisions of Halberstadt-Kulmbach
- Amt Weferlingen1703 - 1722
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