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Anhalt-Aschersleben

Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben
Fürstentum Anhalt-Aschersleben
State of the Holy Roman Empire
1252–1315


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Capital Aschersleben
Languages East Central German
Government Principality
Prince
 •  1252–67 Henry II
 •  1267–1304 Otto I
 •  1267–83 (with Henry III)
 •  1304–15 Otto II
Historical era Middle Ages
 •  Partitioned from Anhalt 1252
 •  Seized by Halberstadt 1315
 •  Passed to Brandenburg on secularisation of bishopric  
1648
Preceded by
Succeeded by
DEU Anhalt 1924-1945 COA.svg Principality of Anhalt
Bishopric of Halberstadt Wappen Landkreis Halberstadt.svg


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Anhalt-Aschersleben was a short-lived principality of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the House of Ascania with its residence at Aschersleben in present-day Saxony-Anhalt. It emerged as a subdivision from the Principality of Anhalt from 1252 to 1315.

It was created when the Anhalt territory was divided among the sons of Prince Henry I into the Principalities of Anhalt-Aschersleben, Anhalt-Bernburg and Anhalt-Zerbst in 1252. Prince Henry II the Fat, the eldest son of Henry I, had been co-ruler of his father since 1244. In the course of the partition he chose the Anhalt ancestral homeland north of the Harz mountain range around the Ascanian residence of Aschersleben (Ascharia), which he granted town privileges in 1266.

When in 1315 Henry's grandson Otto II died without male heirs, the principality — including the capital of Aschersleben — was seized as a fief by his cousin and creditor Bishop Albert of Halberstadt. Though Prince Bernhard II of Anhalt-Bernburg one year later acknowledged the feudal tenure of Halberstadt, Aschersleben was the cause for several conflicts between his successors and the Halberstadt bishops. Nevertheless, it remained part of the diocese, which in 1648 was secularized into the Principality of Halberstadt, and its sovereign possessions, including the rights to Anhalt-Aschersleben, were given to Brandenburg-Prussia.


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