Bishopric of Havelberg
| Bishopric of Havelberg | ||||||||||
| Bistum Havelberg | ||||||||||
| State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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Lower Saxon Prince-bishoprics of Hildesheim, Halberstadt, Magdeburg and Havelberg (violet), about 1250
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Havelberg (from about 1325) |
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| Languages | Brandenburgisch, Polabian | |||||||||
| Government | Prince-Bishopric | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Diocese founded by King Otto I | 948 | ||||||||
| • | Prince-bishopric | 1151 | ||||||||
| • | Transformed into collegiate church | 1506 | ||||||||
| • | Secularised | 1571 | ||||||||
| • | Annexed by Brandenburg | 1598 | ||||||||
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The Bishopric of Havelberg (German: Bistum Havelberg) was a Roman Catholic diocese founded by King Otto I of Germany in 946, from 968 a suffragan to the Archbishops of Magedeburg. A Prince-bishopric (Hochstift) from 1151, Havelberg as a result of the Protestant Reformation was secularised and finally annexed by the margraves of Brandenburg in 1598.
The episcopal seat was in Havelberg near the confluence of the Elbe and Havel rivers. The bishopric roughly covered the western Prignitz region, between the Altmark in the west and the Brandenburgian core territory in the east. While the episcopal territory was supervised by nine Archdeacons (Pröpste), the bishop's—considerably smaller—secular estates were subdivided into four Ämter:
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