Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
1269–1815 German principality / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (German: Fürstentum Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) was a subdivision of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, whose history was characterised by numerous divisions and reunifications. It had an area of 3,828 square kilometres in the mid 17th century.[1] Various dynastic lines of the House of Welf ruled Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel until the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. As a result of the Congress of Vienna, its successor state, the Duchy of Brunswick, was created in 1815.
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Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | |||||||||||
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1269–1815 | |||||||||||
Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806) | ||||||||||
Capital | Brunswick 1235–1432, 1753–1815 Wolfenbüttel 1432–1753 | ||||||||||
Common languages | Low German, German | ||||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||||||||
Government | Principality | ||||||||||
Historical era | |||||||||||
• Partitioned from Brunswick-Lüneburg | 1269 | ||||||||||
1292 | |||||||||||
• Re-partitioned from Göttingen | 1344 | ||||||||||
• Calenberg split off | 1432 | ||||||||||
1484–95 | |||||||||||
1500 | |||||||||||
• Regained Calenberg and Göttingen | 1584 | ||||||||||
• Occupied Grubenhagen | 1596–1617 | ||||||||||
• Wolfenbüttel line extinct; Calenberg and Göttingen to House of Hanover | 1635 | ||||||||||
• Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern split off | 1667–1735 | ||||||||||
1807–1813 | |||||||||||
• Formally re-established as the Duchy of Brunswick | 1815 | ||||||||||
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