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- The Principality of Bayreuth (German: Fürstentum Bayreuth) or Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Markgraftum Brandenburg-Bayreuth) was an immediate territory of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a Franconian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty.
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The Principality of Bayreuth (German: Fürstentum Bayreuth) or Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Markgraftum Brandenburg-Bayreuth) was an immediate territory of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a Franconian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty.
In 1398 Bayreuth was partitioned from Nuremberg, becoming the Principality of Bayreuth (German: Fürstentum Bayreuth). Until 1604, however, the princely residence and the centre of the territory was the castle of Plassenburg in Kulmbach and as such the territory was officially known as the Principality of Kulmbach.
Jean Paul (born March 21, 1763, Wunsiedel, Principality of Bayreuth [Germany]—died Nov. 14, 1825, Bayreuth, Bavaria) was a German novelist and humorist whose works were immensely popular in the first 20 years of the 19th century.
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May 21, 2018 · BAYREUTH, city in Bavaria, Germany, and former principality. Jews lived in the principality of Bayreuth at the beginning of the 13 th century and are mentioned in *Meir b. Baruch of Rothenburg's responsa.
Apr 19, 2022 · But he died only six years later, and the principality of Bayreuth passed to the line of Brandenburg-Ansbach. In Ansbach, Queen Caroline’s brother, Margrave Wilhelm Friedrich, had also been expanding his small state’s interests in education and health.
Christian Friedrich Carl Alexander ( German: Christian Friedrich Karl Alexander; 24 February 1736 – 5 January 1806) was the last margrave of the two Franconian principalities, Bayreuth and Ansbach, [a] which he sold to the King of Prussia, a fellow member of the House of Hohenzollern . Life.
BAYREUTH, city in Bavaria, Germany, and former principality. Jews lived in the principality of Bayreuth at the beginning of the 13 th century and are mentioned in *Meir b. Baruch of Rothenburg's responsa. In 1248 several Jews were admitted into the city of Bayreuth.
