Saxe-Lauenburg
Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg | |||||||||
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Coat of arms (1507–1671)
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| Attributed arms of the Saxe-Lauenburg The Saxon Steed | |||||||||
The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg in 1848 (map in Dutch) | |||||||||
| Status |
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| Capital | Lauenburg/Elbe Ratzeburg (from 1619) | ||||||||
| Religion | Earlier: Roman Catholic Later: Lutheran | ||||||||
| Government | Duchy | ||||||||
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• 1296–1303 | Eric I (first) | ||||||||
• 1865–1876 | William (last) | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Partitioned from Duchy of Saxony | 1296 | ||||||||
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| 1689–1705 | |||||||||
• Personal union with Hanover | 1705–1803 | ||||||||
• Dissolved during Napoleonic Wars | 1803–1814 | ||||||||
• Personal union with Denmark | 1814–1864 | ||||||||
• Personal union with Prussia | 1865–1876 | ||||||||
• Merged into Prussia | 1876 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
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The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg (German: Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg, Danish: Hertugdømmet Sachsen-Lauenborg), was a reichsfrei duchy that existed from 1296 to 1803 and again from 1814 to 1876 in the extreme southeast region of what is now Schleswig-Holstein. Its territorial centre was in the modern district of Herzogtum Lauenburg and originally its eponymous capital was Lauenburg upon Elbe, though the capital moved to Ratzeburg in 1619.