Bishopric and Principality of Halberstadt

 

This page covers the territory of the Bishopric of Halberstadt. After the Thirty-Years War, the Bishopric was secularized into a Principality (in personal union with Brandenburg), with the same subdivision structure. It technically lost “country” status in 1701, when it became part of the Kingdom of Prussia. However, because I treat the Kingdom of Prussia as a nation, I leave the Principality at the “country” level until the end of the Holy Roman Empire.

 

Bishopric of Halberstadt

 

• Simplified country name: Halberstadt
• Nation: Ecclesiastical Germany
• Chronology
  • 804: Founded
  • 1180: Imperial immediacy
  • 1315: Acquired Anhalt-Aschersleben upon its termination
  • 1566: Beginning of database (1)
  • 1593: Acquired Lohra and Klettenberg upon the termination of Hohnstein
  • 1599: Acquired Regenstein-Blankenburg upon its terminination
  • 1648: Secularized
• Successor: Principality of Halberstadt
• Outsourcings (and an insourcing)
  • by Halberstadt to:
    • Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1599-1635)
    • Principality of Lüneburg-Harburg (1635-1642)
    • Count of Tattenbach (1642-1648)
    • Principality of Anhalt-Köthen (1623-1643)
    • Count of Königsmark (1643-1648)
    • County of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1632-1645)
    • County of Stolberg (1645-1648)
  • to Halberstadt by:
    • Electorate of Brandenburg (1599-1648)

 

(1) 1566 was the year the first Protestant bishop took office.

 

Principality of Halberstadt

 

• Simplified country name: Halberstadt
• Nation:
  • Hohenzollern Germany (1648-1701)
  • Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1806)
• Predecessor: Bishopric of Halberstadt
• Chronology
  • 1648: Created
  • 1651: Transferred the Blankenburg Ämter to Wolfenbüttel
  • 1714: Acquired Wernigerode upon its subjugation by Prussia
  • 1806: Terminated/end of database
• Successor: Kingdom of Westphalia (Napoleonic client)
• Personal unions:
  • as primary: none
  • as secondary: Electorate of Brandenburg (1648-1701) (2)
• Outsourcings
  • by Halberstadt to:
    • Count of Tattenbach (1648-1671)
    • Count of Königsmark (1648-1663)
    • Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg (1663-1806)
    • Margrave of Kulmbach (1703-1722)
    • Stolbergian Wernigerode (1714-1806)

 

(2) I do not recognize personal unions in the simplified country names of proximate countries (of which Halberstadt is one relative to Brandenburg). I rely on the change in the nation to distinguish the Principality from the Bishopric.

 

The first of the two lists below reflects subdivisions over which the Bishop of Halberstadt exercised sovereignty and administrative responsibilities. The second reflects subdivisions of the Principality of Halberstadt that would meet the same criteria if Halberstadt had not been in personal union with Brandenburg. Thus, subdivisions assigned directly to Brandenburg, but administered by Halberstadt, are excluded, as are subdivisions administered by other parties.

 

[Add Lohra and Klettenberg Ämter as appropriate]