Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg
| Principality (Duchy) of Anhalt-Bernburg | ||||||||||
| Fürstentum (Herzogtum) Anhalt-Bernburg (German) | ||||||||||
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State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806) State of the Confederation of the Rhine (1806–13) State of the German Confederation (from 1815) |
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 Anhalt territories in 1853, Anhalt-Bernburg in green
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| Capital | Bernburg | |||||||||
| Languages | Upper Saxon | |||||||||
| Government | Principality | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Partitioned from Anhalt | 1252 | ||||||||
| • | Inherited by Anhalt-Dessau | 1468 | ||||||||
| • | Repartitioned from Anhalt | 1603 | ||||||||
| • | Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym partitioned away |
1718–1812 |
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| • | Raised to duchy | 1803 | ||||||||
| • | Anhalt re-united | 1863 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Saxony-Anhalt, Germany | |||||||||
Anhalt-Bernburg was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire and a duchy of the German Confederation ruled by the House of Ascania with its residence at Bernburg in present-day Saxony-Anhalt. It emerged as a subdivision from the Principality of Anhalt from 1252 until 1468, when it fell to the Ascanian principality of Anhalt-Dessau. Recreated in 1603, Anhalt-Bernburg finally merged into the re-unified Duchy of Anhalt upon the extinction of the line in 1863.
It was created in 1252, when the Principality of Anhalt was partitioned among the sons of Henry I into Anhalt-Aschersleben, Anhalt-Bernburg and Anhalt-Zerbst. Bernburg was allotted to Henry's second son Bernhard I. When the line of Anhalt-Aschersleben became extinct in 1315, Prince Bernhard II of Anhalt-Bernburg claimed their territory, he could however not prevail against his cousin Albert, Bishop of Halberstadt.
After the ruling family became extinct upon the death of Prince Bernhard VI in 1468, Anhalt-Bernburg was inherited by Prince George I of Anhalt-Dessau. With Anhalt-Dessau it was inherited by Prince Joachim Ernest of Anhalt-Zerbst in 1561, who unified all Anhalt lands under his rule in 1570.
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