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Anhalt
Traditions:
+1 Diplomatic reputation (Deeply involved with the diplomacy of Brandenburg-Prussia)
+1 Yearly Prestige (Same house as Albert the Bear, among other notable people in the centuries before the start date)
Ancestral Seat of House Ascania: +1 Yearly Legitimacy
The Princes of Anhalt from the House of Ascania, named after Schloss Askanien, retained possession of the family's ancestral castle from circa 1100 until the abolition of the German nobility following the First World War. While several branches of the dynasty managed to acquire more prestigious titles, including the Duchy and Electorate of Saxony, first Margraves of Brandenburg, and even an Empress of Russia. Despite this, the Anhalt line maintained the distinction of retaining their title through the entire early modern period.
Loyal to the Protestant Cause: +1% Missionary strength vs heretics, +5% Church power
Like many princes in the northern section of the Empire, the princes of the Anhalt principalities remained loyal to the protestant cause despite their defeat in the Schmalkaldic War and the devastation of the Thirty Years War. Though some of their neighbors later converted to Calvinism, the Princes of Anhalt remained resolutely Lutheran. Several of the princes of Anhalt converted after hearing Luther speak at the Diet of Augsburg.
The Unification of Anhalt: −0.05 Monthly autonomy change
The principalities of Anhalt-Zerbst, Anhalt-Plötzkau, Anhalt-Dessau, and Anhalt-Köthen were unexpectedly unified for the first time since 1252 under a single ruler in 1570, Prince Joachim Ernest, following the deaths of his brothers. While the principality was later partitioned again by his children, his unification of the principality allowed him to undertake sweeping administrative reforms, creating the Landesverordnung Anhalts, a single legal code to be used within the principality.
Prussian Clients: +25% Army Forcelimit
Beginning in the early 17th century, many of the Princes of Anhalt acted as commanders in the Prussian army and diplomats on behalf of Brandenburg-Prussia. While Anhalt was nominally a sovereign principality, their longstanding close ties to the Hohenzollerns and institutional involvement in the Prussian army and diplomatic affairs gave them significant influence within the nascent Prussian state. Some of that would come to an end when Prince Leopold III von Anhalt-Dessau later renounced his ties to the Prussian military and announced his neutrality, though his heirs remained involved as Prussian officers.
The Fruitbearing Society: -10% Idea Cost
In 1617, Prince Ludwig von Anhalt-Köthen acted as a founding member and the first president of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, the Fruitbearing Society, the first organization committed to standardizing vernacular German as an academic and literary language. Modeled after the Italian Accademia della Crusca, the organization counted hundreds of members, including a king and a multitude of sovereign princes and other notables.
Der Alte Dessauer: +5% Discipline
Leopold I von Anhalt-Dessau, in addition to reigning as Sovereign Prince of Anhalt-Dessau for over fifty years, was a close friend of the 'Soldier King' Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, a Generalfeldmarschall in the Prussian army, and one of the most renowned drillmasters of his time. Initially Leopold earned recognition in the Prussian army as an able field commander during the War of Spanish Succession, and though he continued to perform well in the field for the forty years afterward, his greatest military achievement was off of the battlefield. The drill techniques that he imposed upon the Prussian infantry are credited as a main reason that the Prussian army became such a dominant force in the mid-18th century. His rigid discipline and unyielding drilling earned him the nickname 'der Alte Dessauer', the Old Dessauer, and inspired a Prussian march of the same name.
Germany's Most Exquisite Garden: −10% Development cost
Leopold III von Anhalt-Dessau is notable as a disciple of the enlightenment and as an inveterate Anglophile. While his enlightened reforms to education, science, and religious tolerance are notable, his most lasting project was the construction and furnishing of the English Grounds of Wörlitz, the oldest and largest landscape garden on the continent. In contrast to meticulously kept French-style formal gardens, landscape gardens were meant to evoke the feeling of an idyllic pastoral scene, with picturesque features and a more naturalistic appearance. The garden has been open to the public since its construction, the Prince convinced of its value as an educational institution for horticulture. The gardens remain in existence today, occupying 55 square-miles in Saxony-Anhalt's Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve.
Ambition:
−1% Yearly army tradition decay
Anhalt
Traditions:
+1 Diplomatic reputation (Deeply involved with the diplomacy of Brandenburg-Prussia)
+1 Yearly Prestige (Same house as Albert the Bear, among other notable people in the centuries before the start date)
Ancestral Seat of House Ascania: +1 Yearly Legitimacy
The Princes of Anhalt from the House of Ascania, named after Schloss Askanien, retained possession of the family's ancestral castle from circa 1100 until the abolition of the German nobility following the First World War. While several branches of the dynasty managed to acquire more prestigious titles, including the Duchy and Electorate of Saxony, first Margraves of Brandenburg, and even an Empress of Russia. Despite this, the Anhalt line maintained the distinction of retaining their title through the entire early modern period.
Loyal to the Protestant Cause: +1% Missionary strength vs heretics, +5% Church power
Like many princes in the northern section of the Empire, the princes of the Anhalt principalities remained loyal to the protestant cause despite their defeat in the Schmalkaldic War and the devastation of the Thirty Years War. Though some of their neighbors later converted to Calvinism, the Princes of Anhalt remained resolutely Lutheran. Several of the princes of Anhalt converted after hearing Luther speak at the Diet of Augsburg.
The Unification of Anhalt: −0.05 Monthly autonomy change
The principalities of Anhalt-Zerbst, Anhalt-Plötzkau, Anhalt-Dessau, and Anhalt-Köthen were unexpectedly unified for the first time since 1252 under a single ruler in 1570, Prince Joachim Ernest, following the deaths of his brothers. While the principality was later partitioned again by his children, his unification of the principality allowed him to undertake sweeping administrative reforms, creating the Landesverordnung Anhalts, a single legal code to be used within the principality.
Prussian Clients: +25% Army Forcelimit
Beginning in the early 17th century, many of the Princes of Anhalt acted as commanders in the Prussian army and diplomats on behalf of Brandenburg-Prussia. While Anhalt was nominally a sovereign principality, their longstanding close ties to the Hohenzollerns and institutional involvement in the Prussian army and diplomatic affairs gave them significant influence within the nascent Prussian state. Some of that would come to an end when Prince Leopold III von Anhalt-Dessau later renounced his ties to the Prussian military and announced his neutrality, though his heirs remained involved as Prussian officers.
The Fruitbearing Society: -10% Idea Cost
In 1617, Prince Ludwig von Anhalt-Köthen acted as a founding member and the first president of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, the Fruitbearing Society, the first organization committed to standardizing vernacular German as an academic and literary language. Modeled after the Italian Accademia della Crusca, the organization counted hundreds of members, including a king and a multitude of sovereign princes and other notables.
Der Alte Dessauer: +5% Discipline
Leopold I von Anhalt-Dessau, in addition to reigning as Sovereign Prince of Anhalt-Dessau for over fifty years, was a close friend of the 'Soldier King' Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, a Generalfeldmarschall in the Prussian army, and one of the most renowned drillmasters of his time. Initially Leopold earned recognition in the Prussian army as an able field commander during the War of Spanish Succession, and though he continued to perform well in the field for the forty years afterward, his greatest military achievement was off of the battlefield. The drill techniques that he imposed upon the Prussian infantry are credited as a main reason that the Prussian army became such a dominant force in the mid-18th century. His rigid discipline and unyielding drilling earned him the nickname 'der Alte Dessauer', the Old Dessauer, and inspired a Prussian march of the same name.
Germany's Most Exquisite Garden: −10% Development cost
Leopold III von Anhalt-Dessau is notable as a disciple of the enlightenment and as an inveterate Anglophile. While his enlightened reforms to education, science, and religious tolerance are notable, his most lasting project was the construction and furnishing of the English Grounds of Wörlitz, the oldest and largest landscape garden on the continent. In contrast to meticulously kept French-style formal gardens, landscape gardens were meant to evoke the feeling of an idyllic pastoral scene, with picturesque features and a more naturalistic appearance. The garden has been open to the public since its construction, the Prince convinced of its value as an educational institution for horticulture. The gardens remain in existence today, occupying 55 square-miles in Saxony-Anhalt's Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve.
Ambition:
−1% Yearly army tradition decay
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