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Princely Houses | Bearers of Culture: Value, History, Communique Leipzig

Leipzig, new thought processes are initiated by the Communiqué of the Princely Houses. Combined with historical responsibility, it points the way to the future.

Princely Houses | Bearers of Culture: Value, History

The active participation of the princely houses at the commemoration of the „200th anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig" proves the strong attachment of the families.

Princely Houses | Bearers of Culture: Society, Education, Saint Afra Meissen – Scholarship

Great-grandson of the last Saxon king of Saxony handed a scholarship to a highly gifted student from Mexico at the princely school of Sankt Afra in Meissen.

Princely houses | Bearers of culture: Topical, Citizens memory of the battle of Leipzig 1813

In memory of the soldiers fallen in the Battle of Leipzig and the death of Czar Alexander I. of Russia, citizens of Leipzig lay down wreaths.		 PDF

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In the context of the bicentennial memorial for the Battle of Leipzig, the descendants of the monarchs who ruled the warring powers came together from the 17th till the 19th October 2013. In this film we hear from many of them: Grand Duke George of Russia, a descendant of Tsar Alexander I, Archduke Georg of Austria, a descendant of Emperor Francis I of Austria, and Prince Heinrich of Hanover, a descendant of King George III of the United Kingdom. Prince Alexander of Saxony and Prince Michael of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, as descendants of King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, an ally of Napoleon. The Duke of Leuchtenberg, descendant of Eugene de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy and stepson of Emperor Napoleon of the French. Also attending the memorial event of the Cultural and Environmental Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig were descendants of the generals like Prince Blücher and Count Bennigsen.