Allstedt

Allstedt grew around a royal palace south of the Harz. From the twelfth century its castle was administered by the lords of Allstedt, whose line died out in the mid-fourteenth century.

Between 1348 and 1356 Charles IV formed the County Palatine of Saxony-Allstedt for Duke Rudolf I of Saxe-Wittenberg. The castle passed to the lords of Querfurt in 1369 and to the Ernestine Wettins in 1496. In 1524 the preacher Thomas Müntzer delivered his Sermon to the Princes in its chapel; the Amt returned to the Wettin dukes in 1575.