Solms-Baruth

Solms- Baruth was a niederlausitzische caste domination that lasted from the 16th century to 1945.

History

The former Princely Counts - caste domination Baruth in the Mark Brandenburg -bought in 1596 the Count Otto zu Solms - Laubach ( 1550-1612 ), who owned the caste domination Sonnenwalde ( Lower). The caste domination was named after the removal of the resident in Baruth Count of Solms- Laubach in 1615 with the name of Solms- Baruth independent, according to the site Baruth, which became a town just before the start of the Thirty Years' War in 1616.

The caste domination belonged until 1815 to Saxony and fell after the Congress of Vienna to Prussia. The Prussian representative at the congress was Prince Karl August von Hardenberg and his assistant was Count of Solms- Sonnenwalde. The caste domination Baruth whose owners until 1945, the princely family of Solms- Baruth was comprised ten villages and approximately 15,000 acres of agricultural and forestry used land in the former Jiiterbog - Luckenwalde, later county Zossen and today Teltow -Flaming, in the former district Potsdam, today the state of Brandenburg.

The town of Baruth with lock, situated on the road from Berlin, via Wunsdorf, Golßen, Lübbenau to Dresden. Today's most interesting attraction of the Solms- Baruth history is the Baruther Glassworks Museum. The Solms- Baruth house in 1946 expropriated without compensation.

Standesherren

  • Otto, Count of Solms- Sonnenwalde (1596-1612)
  • Albert Friedrich, Count of Solms- Sonnenwalde (1612-1615)
  • Johann Georg II (1615-1632), Count of Solms- Baruth in Wildenfels
  • Johann Georg III. (1632-1690), Count of Solms- Baruth
  • Friedrich Sigismund I (1632-1696)
  • Friedrich Sigismund II (1696-1737)
  • Friedrich Gottlob Heinrich (1737-1787)
  • Friedrich Carl Leopold (1787-1801)
  • Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig (1801-1879)
  • Frederick I (1879-1904), Prince of Solms- Baruth 1888
  • Frederick II (1904-1920), politician, Chief Treasurer and member of the Prussian House of Lords.
  • Friedrich III. (1920-1945), resistance fighters of 20 July 1944

Personalities from the Solms- Baruth House

  • Feodora zu Solms - Baruth (1920-2006), athlete
  • Friedrich zu Solms- Baruth (1853-1920) (1853-1920), German politician and Lord Chamberlain
  • Friedrich zu Solms- Baruth (1886-1951) (1886-1951), German nobleman and resistance fighters of 20 July 1944
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