The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg (German: Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg, called Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) between the 14th and 17th centuries; Danish: Hertugdømmet...
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Francis II of Saxe-Lauenburg (Ratzeburg, 10 August 1547 – 2 July 1619, Lauenburg upon Elbe), was the third son of Francis I of Saxe-Lauenburg and Sybille of...
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Clara of Saxe-Lauenburg (13 December 1518 – 27 March 1576) was a Princess of Saxe-Lauenburg and Duchess of Brunswick-Gifhorn by marriage. Clara was born...
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The Lauenburg-Hohnstorf Ferry (German: Trajekt Lauenburg-Hohnstorf or Lauenburg-Hohnstorfer Elb-Traject-Anstalt) was a railway ferry over the River Elbe...
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and in Holstein and Lauenburg it was majority German. In March 1848, the German population of Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg rebelled, and created...
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Cleves, Jülich and Berg, Duke of the Wends and the Kassubes, of Crossen, Lauenburg and Mecklenburg; Landgrave of Hesse and Thuringia; Margrave of Upper and...
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Frederick of Saxe-Lauenburg (German: Herzog Friederich von Sachsen, Engern und Westfalen, colloquially Sachsen-Lauenburg) (1554–1586), was a cathedral...
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in 1826; territory merged with Saxe-Meiningen) 22. The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg (in personal union with the Kingdom of Denmark) 23. The Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen...
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Geesthacht (category Herzogtum Lauenburg)
[ɡeːstˈhaxt] ) is the largest city in the District of the Duchy of Lauenburg (Herzogtum Lauenburg) in Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany, 34 kilometres (21 mi)...
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Treaty of Bromberg (section Lauenburg and Bütow Land)
pawned Draheim (Drahim) and Elbing (Elbląg) to Brandenburg and handed over Lauenburg and Bütow Land to the Hohenzollerns as a hereditary fief. The treaty was...
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and Duke Rudolph I of Saxe-Wittenberg (whose right was contested by his Lauenburg cousin, head of the senior branch). The next day however (because the...
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1867. The province was created in 1868, and it incorporated the Duchy of Lauenburg from 1876 onward. Following the defeat of Imperial Germany in World War...
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Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg (category Duchesses of Saxe-Lauenburg)
died: 13 August 1626 in Lauenburg) was a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by birth and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg. Mary was a daughter of...
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Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and his wife, Princess Sophie Hedwig of Saxe-Lauenburg (1601-1660). They had ten children: Frederick (10 December 1652 – 3 August...
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Ostrov Castle (section House of Saxe-Lauenburg)
has been reconstructed into baroque palace with gardens under the Saxe-Lauenburg and Baden-Baden families. In the 19th century, it belonged to the Tuscan...
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Prussia remaining outside the German Confederation. In contrast, the Lauenburg and Bütow Land was annexed in 1777 immediately into the Province of Pomerania...
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member states: the King of Denmark as Duke of Holstein and Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg; the King of the Netherlands as Grand Duke of Luxembourg and (from 1839)...
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of each other. Places within this area included Bytów (Bütow), Lębork (Lauenburg), Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), Toruń (Thorn) and Przechówko (Przechowken) . Within...
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brother Otto, he participated in the campaign of Duke Magnus I of Saxe-Lauenburg against the Frisians of Wursten, then an area of free peasant under the...
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Jenke, Mareike. "Ausgrabungen im Duvenseer Moor, Kreis Herzogtum Lauenburg - Zur Rekonstruktion einer Altgrabung". Hammaburg N.F. (in German). 16: 9-78...
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Maria Franziska (1672–1741), a daughter of Duke Julius Francis of Saxe-Lauenburg. The wedding ceremony, which had to be postponed due to the illness and...
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comparatively lucky; although they fell under the rule of the weak Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg in the 13th century, the dukes were too weak to enforce their will and...
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Holstein called the Holstein Switzerland and the former Duchy of Lauenburg (Herzogtum Lauenburg). The longest river besides the Elbe is the Eider. Schleswig-Holstein...
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dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg who, due to a shortage of money, enfeoffed it to the free Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck. In 1401 Saxe-Lauenburg repossessed...
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initially owned and ruled jointly over the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. The strained relationship between the two states worsened however in...
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Duchy of Saxony was formed only by his title and the imperial fiefs of Lauenburg and Wittenberg. Bernhard was succeeded by Albert I (r. 1212–1260). After...
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remaining states into the North German Confederation via the peace treaties. Lauenburg is sometimes mentioned as one of the member states, sometimes not. It...
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death. His parents were Count Anthony I of Oldenburg and Sophie of Saxe-Lauenburg. In 1573, John VII inherited the County of Oldenburg from his father....
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right bank of the Weser became Protestant. Heinrich IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1577–85), was a Lutheran; he permitted the adoption of the Augsburg Confession...
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enfeoffed to the Ascanians. This remainder was eventually split into Saxe-Lauenburg and Saxe-Wittenberg in 1296, the latter raised to the status of Electorate...
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