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20-597: Established on December 31, 1997, it consists of 15 villages: Löwenberg was first mentioned in a 1269 deed, when it was acquired by the Bishopric of Brandenburg from the Brandenburg Margraves . A Gothic fieldstone church was erected in the 13th century. The church and large parts of the village were devastated by a fire in 1808. In 1877 Löwenberg gained access to the new Prussian Nordbahn railway line from Berlin to Neubrandenburg . The municipality

40-601: A dispensation permitting him to hold both the Archbishopric of Magdeburg and Archbishopric of Mainz . This provided the Hohenzollerns with control over two of the seven electoral votes in imperial elections and many suffragan dioceses to levy dues. Joachim Nestor, who had co-financed this accumulation of offices, agreed to let Albert recover these costs by the sale of indulgences to his subjects. Joachim's neighbor, John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony , forbade

60-419: A mere ten-year period. Because of these and other extravagances, although Joachim I had left the country's finances in satisfactory order, by 1540 Joachim II was over 600,000 thalers in debt, which he attempted to pay off by confiscating church property and raising taxes. His wife Hedwig's mother Barbara Zápolya was a sister of John Zápolya , who had claimed the vacant throne of Hungary after King Louis II

80-687: A retreat. He was defeated again by the Ottomans in the Siege of Pest in 1542. As a part of the alliance, in 1545 Joachim held a gala double wedding celebration for his two children, John George and Barbara . They were married to Sophie of Legnica and George , both children of the Piast Duke Frederick II of Legnica in Silesia . Joachim was a brother-in-law of King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland. In 1569, he paid Sigismund for

100-536: Is known for Liebenberg Castle  [ de ] ( Schloss Liebenberg ) built in 1745, the former residence of Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847–1921) who from 1886 on held a homophile political salon - the Liebenberg Circle - here. Members included the Berlin military commander Kuno von Moltke , the later Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow and Emperor Wilhelm II . The circle broke up in 1907 with

120-697: The Harden-Eulenburg Affair . Löwenberg is situated at the junction of the Bundesstraßen 96 and 167. The Löwenberg railway station is served by the Nordbahn line from Berlin to Stralsund . In east-west direction train connections are also available toward Prenzlau and Rheinsberg . Further Nordbahn railway stations are also in the villages of Grüneberg and Nassenheide. Prince-Bishopric of Brandenburg The Prince-Bishopric of Brandenburg ( German : Hochstift Brandenburg )

140-514: The Margraviate of Brandenburg , which was originally seated in the same city. Chapter and cathedral, surrounded by further ecclesiastical institutions, were located on the Dominsel (Cathedral Island), which formed a prince-episcopal cathedral immunity district ( Domfreiheit ), distinct from the city of Brandenburg. Only in 1929 the - meanwhile former - immunity district was incorporated into

160-539: The Protestant Reformation , married, and in every way furthered the undertakings of the Hohenzollern elector Joachim II . There were two more nominal bishops, but on the petition of the latter of these, the electoral prince John George of Brandenburg appointed in 1560, the secularisation of the bishopric was undertaken and finally accomplished in 1571, in spite of legal proceedings to reassert

180-458: The Protestant Reformation . On 1 November 1539, he received Communion under both kinds in Spandau 's St. Nicholas' Church, an act that indicated a degree of sympathy with the new religious ideas. However, Joachim did not explicitly adopt Lutheranism until 1555, to avoid open confrontation with his ally, Emperor Charles V . Prior to this, Joachim promulgated a conservative church order that

200-757: The anti-Jewish pogroms of 1510 in Brandenburg had been based on a feigned host desecration . This pogrom had resulted in the expulsion of the Jews from Brandenburg. The Jewish advocate Josel von Rosheim , who was also in attendance, pleaded privately with Joachim to allow the Jews to settle in the Brandenburg again. Joachim acceded to this request on 25 June 1539. Joachim not only loved hunting in person, he also spent great sums on live lions, bears, wolves, and other beasts which he made to fight each other. He also maintained no fewer than eleven alchemists at his court over

220-462: The city itself. As rulers of imperial immediacy , regnant in a, however, dispersed territory partitioned into the four bailiwicks ( German : Ämter ) of Brandenburg/Havel, Ketzin , Teltow and Ziesar . The prince-bishops from the early 14th century onwards resided in their fortress in Ziesar on the road to Magdeburg . The last actual bishop was Matthias von Jagow (d. 1544), who took the side of

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240-691: The imperial court. His father, Joachim I Nestor, made Joachim Hector sign an inheritance contract in which he promised to remain Roman Catholic . This was intended in part to assist Joachim Nestor's younger brother, the Archbishop-Elector Albert of Mainz . Albert had borrowed huge amounts from the banking house of Fugger in order to pay the Holy See for his elevation to the Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt and for

260-500: The imperial immediacy of the prince-bishopric within the Empire and so to likewise preserve the diocese, which dragged on into the 17th century. Secularized and merged into Brandenburg. 52°24′30″N 12°33′45″E  /  52.40842°N 12.56249°E  / 52.40842; 12.56249 Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg Joachim II ( German : Joachim II Hector or Hektor ; 13 January 1505 – 3 January 1571)

280-536: The prince-bishop exercised only spiritual authority, was a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg , its seat was Brandenburg an der Havel . The Prince-Bishopric of Brandenburg was an imperial estate of the Holy Roman Empire for some time, probably starting about 1161/1165. However, the Brandenburg bishops never managed to gain control over a significant territory, being overshadowed by

300-513: The sale of indulgences, because Albert had outbid his candidate for the see of Mainz, but also on principle, being persuaded by his subject Martin Luther . Thus repayment of the debt to the Fugger depended on the sale of indulgences to Catholic believers in Brandenburg. However, had Joachim Hector not agreed to this, he would likely have been passed over in the line of inheritance. His first marriage

320-568: Was Lutheran in doctrine, but retained many traditional religious institutions and observances, such as the episcopate , much of the Mass in Latin, religious plays and feast days . In early 1539, at the diet of princes of imperial immediacy ( Fürstentag ) of the Holy Roman Empire in Frankfurt , Lutheran spokesman Philipp Melanchthon revealed to the gathered princes (among them Joachim) that

340-590: Was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1535–1571), the sixth member of the House of Hohenzollern . Joachim II was the eldest son of Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg and his wife Elizabeth of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden . He received the cognomen Hector after the Trojan prince and warrior for his athel qualities and prowess. Joachim II was born in Cölln and received his education at

360-604: Was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire from the 12th century until it was secularized during the second half of the 16th century. It should not be confused with the larger Diocese of Brandenburg ( Latin : Dioecesis Brandenburgensis ) established by King Otto I of Germany in 948, in the territory of the Marca Geronis ( Saxon Eastern March ) east of the Elbe river. The diocese, over which

380-591: Was killed in battle against the Ottoman Empire in 1526. However, Joachim supported Ferdinand of Habsburg , who also claimed the crown and challenged the Turkish invaders. In 1542 Joachim assisted Ferdinand against the Ottomans at the Siege of Buda (1541) . He commanded an army of Austrian, Hungarian, German, Bohemian, Italian, and Dalmatian troops, but the Elector was not a seasoned warrior and eventually beat

400-544: Was to Magdalena of Saxony from the ducal Albertine line of the House of Wettin . She died in 1534. In 1535 he married Hedwig , daughter of King Sigismund I the Old of Poland. As the Jagiellon dynasty was Catholic, Joachim II promised Sigismund that he would not make Hedwig change her religious affiliation. With the deaths of his father Joachim Nestor (1535) and father-in-law Sigismund (1548), Joachim turned gradually to

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