Wolfgang, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen

Duke Wolfgang ( born 6 April 1531 in Herzberg am Harz, † May 14, 1595 ibid ) of Brunswick- Grubenhagen was from 1567 to 1595 in the Principality of Prince Grubenhagen.

Life

Duke Wolfgang followed his late brother Ernst in 1567 the government of the small Principality. He had, like most of his predecessors money problems, so he was often forced to sell major parts owned or pledge, and to demand high taxes.

Wolfgang signed the Formula of Concord of 1577 and the Book of Concord of 1580th In 1581 he issued the citizens of Herzberg the right to provide themselves with firewood and timber, as well as leaves the field fertilization. With the establishment of the court school in Herzberg he tried to improve the level of education in his country. 1593 he moved against the claims to power of the Counts of Stolberg, a county Lauterberg Scharzfeld as a completed fief. In the same year he confirmed the Harz mountain Rules of 1554 and gave the Herzberger citizens the right to brew beer and wine license for the approval.

For his wife Dorothea of Saxe- Lauenburg (* March 11, 1543, † April 5, 1586 ) he laid beneath the castle Herzberg to a pleasure garden. The marriage remained childless, and therefore inherited by his younger brother Philip II in 1595, the Principality Grubenhagen. With his death, the pit Hagen line of the Guelphs finally extinct.

His final resting place is located next to his parents, brothers and his wife in the crypt of St. Aegidienkirche in Osterode.