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Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben Fürstentum Anhalt-Aschersleben | |||||||||
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1252–1315 | |||||||||
![]() Map of Anhalt in 1259. Anhalt-Aschersleben is in brown. | |||||||||
Status | Principality | ||||||||
Capital | Aschersleben | ||||||||
Common languages | East Central German | ||||||||
Prince | |||||||||
• 1252–67 | Henry II | ||||||||
• 1267–1304 | Otto I | ||||||||
• 1267–83 | (with Henry III) | ||||||||
• 1304–15 | Otto II | ||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Partitioned from Anhalt | 1252 | ||||||||
• Seized by Halberstadt | 1315 | ||||||||
• Passed to Brandenburg on secularisation of bishopric | 1648 | ||||||||
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Anhalt-Aschersleben was a short-lived principality of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the House of Ascania with its residence at Aschersleben in present-day Saxony-Anhalt. It emerged as a subdivision from the Principality of Anhalt from 1252 to 1315.