Frederick of Saxe-Weissenfels (''Frederick Erdmann''; b.
Halle Halle may refer to:
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* Halle (Saale), also called Halle an der Saale, a city in Saxony-Anhalt
** Halle (region), a former administrative region in Saxony-Anhalt
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** Hall ...
, 20 November 1673 - d.
Dahme, 16 April 1715), was a German prince member of the
House of Wettin
The House of Wettin () is a dynasty of Germany, German monarch, kings, Prince Elector, prince-electors, dukes, and counts that once ruled territories in the present-day German states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. The dynasty is one of ...
and Duke of
Saxe-Weissenfels-Dahme.
He was the sixth son of
Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels but first-born from his second marriage with
Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg.
Life
Because as one of the youngest children of his father he didn't inherited a share of the Duchy of Saxe-Weissenfels, Frederick became devoted to a military career and therefore since he was fourteen (1687) stayed on the Saxon court in
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
, where he became lieutenant general.
After an agreement with his nephew
Johann Georg, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, he received the district of
Dahme as his
appanage
An appanage, or apanage (; french: apanage ), is the grant of an estate, title, office or other thing of value to a younger child of a sovereign, who would otherwise have no inheritance under the system of primogeniture. It was common in much ...
, although without full sovereignty, being dependent from the eldest ruling branch.
In Dahme on 13 February 1711, Frederick married
Emilie Agnes Reuss of Schleiz, Dowager Countess of Promnitz-Pless. They had no children.
Frederick took residence in his land and commissioned the architects Johann Christoph Schütze and Elias Scholtz from 1711 the construction of the Dahme Castle (German: Schloss Dahme) on the remains of the old-fashioned medieval fortress, who could be finished after four years of construction. The garden was a summerhouse, sandstone sculptures and caves according with the Baroque style. However, Frederick never lived there because he died shortly before the completion of the building. Instead, his widow Emilie Agnes took the Castle as her ''Wittum'', but she later lived mainly in the other dominions who received from her first marriage,
Vetschau
Vetschau/Spreewald ( dsb, Wětošow) is a town in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated in the Spreewald, 18 km west of Cottbus.
History
Vetschau was first mentioned in 1302 as Veczic ...
and
Fürstlich Drehna, where she died in 1729. Later the last Duke of the Saxe-Weissenfels branch,
Johann Adolf II continued the construction work from 1719 and made the Dahme Castle his temporary residence.
Frederick died in Dahme aged 41. He was buried in the ''Schlosskirche'', Weissenfels.
Saxe-Weissenfels line in: Royaltyguide.nl
etrieved 14 October 2014
Notes
References
Bibliography about Frederick of Saxe-Weissenfels-Dahme
in: VD 17 etrieved 14 October 2014
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1673 births
1715 deaths
Lieutenant generals of Saxony
Albertine branch