Naumburg

Naumburg was the seat of the prince-bishopric of Naumburg-Zeitz, an imperial ecclesiastical state east of the Saale. In 1337 its bishop was Withego I.

The Reformation divided the bishopric: Amsdorf became Lutheran bishop in 1542, while the last Catholic bishop died in 1564 and the lands passed to Saxony's dukes. From 1657 the district belonged to Saxe-Zeitz; when that line died out in 1718 it reverted to Dresden. The Congress of Vienna awarded Naumburg to Prussia in 1815.