House Treaty of Regensburg

The Regensburg sharing agreement came about when the new Hohenzollern in 1541 laid down the boundaries between their principalities of Ansbach and Kulmbach. These two territories were formed when in 1486 the castle Nuremberg county was divided ( the Frankish land of Hohenzollern) according to the dispositions Achillea.

The castle county Nuremberg was mainly from the untergebirgischen country to Ansbach and Kulmbach and Bayreuth obergebirgischen country to pass (the term mountain, referring to the Muggendorfer mountain - then the usual name of Franconian Switzerland ). In the division of lands, made ​​in 1486 from the area part of the Principality of Ansbach untergebirgischen had been formed during the Principality of Kulmbach had been created with the second part. This division, however, only the geographical conditions had taken into account, but not the economic profitability of the two new principalities. Due to the sparseness of the obergebirgischen country on income earned there were namely significantly lower than in the more fertile untergebirgischen country. The Regensburg sharing agreement eliminated this imbalance and created two economically equivalent territories. Here are a few untergebirgische areas (mainly around Erlangen and Neustadt ad Aisch ) finally annexed to the Principality of Kulmbach ( after they had been previously ruled temporarily from the residence of Kulmbach ). As a basis for the uniform distribution while the average income of the years 1533 to 1539 were used.

Another passage of the contract concerned the indivisibility of the Mark Brandenburg. This had already been formulated in the Dispositio Achillea and has now been incorporated as a permanent valid regulation.

The occasion for the July 23, 1541 concluded Regensburg sharing agreement was the government takeover of Albert Alcibiades in the Principality of Kulmbach. Albrecht Alcibiades had been brought up the Pious after the early death of his father Casimir of Brandenburg- Kulmbach by his uncle and guardian George, who had also taken over the regency in Kulmbach part of the country for the period of his minority. After Albrecht Alcibiades had come of age, he agreed with his uncle in the Regensburg -sharing contract in consensual manner to the new limits of his principality.