Christian married Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg on 29 October 1525 at Lauenburg Castle.

She was married to Christian on 29 October 1525 at Lauenburg Castle, against her wishes.

In 1616 the ducal residential castle in Lauenburg upon Elbe, started in 1180 – 1182 by Duke Bernard I, burnt down and Duke Francis II then used Neuhaus Castle as his residence.

On 23 May 1624 Francis ' daughter Sophia Hedwig ( Lauenburg upon Elbe, * 24 May 1601-21 February 1660 *, Glücksburg ) married Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg in Neuhaus Castle.

After being forced by the sovereign to resign, he received the purely honorific title of " Duke of Lauenburg ", without the duchy itself and the sovereignty that would have transformed his family into a mediatized house.

It is bounded by ( from the north and clockwise ) the districts of Segeberg and Ostholstein, the city of Lübeck, the district of Lauenburg, and the city-state of Hamburg.

The landscape is characterized by numerous lakes, forming the Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park.

While the territory of Saxe-Wittenberg changed drastically over the centuries, the Duchy of Lauenburg remained almost unchanged, until it lost its independence in 1689, when it was inherited by the Principality of Lüneburg.

The town was founded in 1182 by Bernard of Ascania, the ancestor of the Dukes of Lauenburg.

Following the Napoleonic Wars, Lauenburg was ceded by Prussia to Denmark in exchange for the region of Pomerania.

The shorter main route ( 95 km ) leads bicyclists through many picturesque little towns such as Lauenburg, Büchen, Mölln and Krummsee and also passes by the Lüne Monastery.

It is bounded by ( from the east and clockwise ) the districts of Lüneburg, Heidekreis, Rotenburg and Stade, by the City of Hamburg and the State of Schleswig-Holstein ( District of Lauenburg ).

It is bounded by ( from the southeast and clockwise ) the districts of Lüchow-Dannenberg, Uelzen, Heidekreis and Harburg, and the states of Schleswig-Holstein ( district of Lauenburg ) and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ( district of Ludwigslust-Parchim ).

It was spoken approximately until the mid-18th century, when it was superseded by German, in the areas of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, central Brandenburg ( Mittelmark ) and eastern Saxony-Anhalt ( Wittenberg ), as well as in eastern parts of Lower Saxony ( Wendland ) and Schleswig-Holstein ( Ostholstein and Lauenburg ).

The former Pomerelian Lauenburg and Bütow Land in the far west was held by the Pomeranian dukes as a Polish fief.

Lauenburg was occupied by Swedes in the Northern Wars.

The settlement of 1806 was reversed, and while Schleswig remained as before, the duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg, the latter acquired in personal union by a territorial swap following the Congress of Vienna, were included in the new German Confederation.

This proclamation was approved by Prussia and Austria, and by the German Federal Assembly insofar as it affected Holstein and Lauenburg.

In this manoeuvre Prussia gained Swedish Pomerania in exchange for Lauenburg which was ceded by Prussia to Denmark.

The following list includes states that existed in the territory of the former stem duchy in addition to the two legal successors of the stem duchy, the Ascanian Duchy of Saxony formed in 1296 centered around Wittenberg and Lauenburg, as well as the Duchy of Westphalia, held by the Archbishops of Cologne, that already split off in 1180.

In the meantime, taking advantage of the confusion in Poland, already by 1769 — 71, both Austria and Prussia had taken over some border territories of the Commonwealth, with Austria taking Szepes County in 1769-1770 and Prussia incorporating Lauenburg and Bütow.

With Lauenburg Land it became a Polish fief during the Thirteen Years ' War in 1454, held by the Dukes of Pomerania.

The town fell back to the Polish Crown after the death of the last Pomeranian duke Bogislaw XIV until King John II Casimir Vasa enfeoffed Elector Frederick William I of Brandenburg-Prussia with Lauenburg Land by the 1657 Treaty of Bromberg.

The wars between Denmark and the Kingdom of Prussia, such as the First Schleswig War ( 1848 – 1851 ) and the Second War of Schleswig ( February 1864 – October 1864 ) followed by the Gastein Convention ( 1864 ), led to Denmark's cession of the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg to Prussian and Austrian administration, respectively.

This proclamation was approved by Prussia and Austria, and by the German confederal diet insofar as it affected Holstein and Lauenburg.

Before the end of World War II the ( then German ) population of Lauenburg was predominantly composed of Protestants.

Sapir was born into a family of Lithuanian Jews in Lauenburg in the Province of Pomerania where his father, Jacob David Sapir, worked as a cantor.

Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg ( 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898 ), simply known as Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative German statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s to his dismissal in 1890.

Bismarck was discarded (" dropping the pilot " in the words of the famous Punch cartoon ), promoted to the rank of " Colonel-General with the Dignity of Field Marshal " ( so-called because the German Army did not appoint full Field Marshals in peacetime ) and given a new title, Duke of Lauenburg, which he joked would be useful when travelling incognito.

He attempted to persuade Kaiser Wilhelm I that he should be endowed with the sovereign duchy of Lauenburg, in reward for his services to the imperial family and the German empire.

Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.

Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.

During George's lifetime Hanover acquired Saxe-Lauenburg | Lauenburg and Bremen-Verden.

Herzogtum Lauenburg () is the southernmost Kreis, or district, of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

The district of Herzogtum Lauenburg is named after the former Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg.

The district's area contains a number of historically important towns, e. g. Lauenburg / Elbe, Mölln and Ratzeburg.

The district Herzogtum Lauenburg is named after the medieval Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg, which was one of the remnants of the original Duchy of Saxony.

Saxe-Lauenburg was also known simply as Lauenburg.

For a short period Lauenburg was still an autonomous entity, but in 1876 it was incorporated as a district into the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein.

Lauenburg upon Elbe was the first capital and name-giving to the Duchy, before it moved in 1619 to Ratzeburg, which remained the capital also when the Duchy was downgraded to a district within Prussia.

On November 13, 1945 the British general Colin Muir Barber and the Soviet general major Nikolay Grigoryevich Lyashchenko () signed the Barber Lyashchenko Agreement (, also Gadebusch Agreement ) in Gadebusch, redeploying some municipalities of the Duchy of Lauenburg District and neighbouring Mecklenburg, then part of the Soviet Zone of Occupation.

Thus some eastern suburbs of Ratzeburg, such as Ziethen in Lauenburg, Mechow, Bäk and Römnitz became part of the district, while the Lauenburgian municipalities of Dechow, Groß and Klein Thurow ( now component parts of Roggendorf ) as well as Lassahn ( now a component part of Zarrentin am Schaalsee ) were ceded to Mecklenburg.

Ratzeburg is the capital of the Kreis ( district ) of Lauenburg.

In 1619 Saxe-Lauenburg's capital was moved from Lauenburg upon Elbe to Ratzeburg and remained there since.

Ratzeburg briefly was part of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars, afterwards the Duchy of ( Saxe -) Lauenburg was awarded in personal union to the Danish crown in the Congress of Vienna.