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3 giorni fa · May 26, 2024. Towering 240 meters above the Elbe River, the Konigstein Fortress has guarded the strategic trade routes through Saxony for over 800 years. This awe-inspiring bastion sprawls across a 9.5-hectare plateau, making it one of the largest hilltop fortifications in Europe. With its 42-meter tall sandstone walls, 152-meter deep well, and ...
6 giorni fa · Elector of Brandenburg r. 1608–1619 Duke of Prussia r. 1618–1619 1572–1619: Erdman Augustus 1615–1651: George Albert 1619–1666: Frederick III Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach r. 1625–1634 1616–1634: Albert II Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach r. 1634–1667 1620–1667: John George Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen r. 1605–1623 ...
2 giorni fa · The Elector Frederick Augustus III accordingly became King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony. Frederick Augustus remained loyal to Napoleon during the wars that swept Europe in the following years; he was taken prisoner and his territories were declared forfeit by the allies in 1813, after the defeat of Napoleon.
3 giorni fa · The Augustus Palace, designed as a summer residence and completed in 1768, was the first to be built. The palace‘s namesake, Augustus the Strong, the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, was a close friend and ally of Clemens August, and the palace was named in his honor (Köhler, 2018).
1 giorno fa · Besides the rise of Prussia, Augustus III, although ineffective, could muster an army not only from Saxony, but also Poland, since he was also the King of Poland as well as Elector of Saxony. Bavaria's growing power and independence was also apparent as it asserted more control on the deployment of its army, and managed to disengage from the war at its own will.
5 giorni fa · Genealogy for Augustus III, King of Poland (1696 - 1763) family tree on Geni, ... Birth of Frederick Chrstian, Elector of Saxony. 1763 1763. Age 67.
5 giorni fa · The collection remaining at Royal Castle in Warsaw was looted during the Great Northern War or appropriated in 1720 by Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony, like two paintings by Rembrandt – Portrait of a Bearded Man in Black Beret (1657 also known as the Portrait of a Rabbi) and Portrait of a Man in the Hat Decorated with Pearls (1667), today displayed in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister ...
