Merseburg

Merseburg was a prince-bishopric on the Saale, founded as a diocese by Otto I in 967. In 1337 Bishop Gebhard of Schraplau was a lord of the Querfurt country, while the Wettin margraves of Meissen overshadowed the see.

The Wettins secured its protectorate in the 1485 Treaty of Leipzig. Bishop Adolph II of Anhalt was expelled during the 1525 Peasants' War; Saxon administrators followed, and Merseburg joined Electoral Saxony in 1565. In 1815 most of its former lands passed to Prussia.