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The article examines establishment of church structures in the Saxon mission area in Central Germany during eight century. Topics discussed include document of Louis the Pious for the monastery Visbek, and role of Princely Abbey of Corvey is a former Benedictine abbey and ecclesiastical principality now in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany in in the integration of Saxony into the Franconian Empire and with the Christianization of the Saxon population during ninth and tenth centuries.

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This article focuses on physical infirmity, health, and nutrition in Saxony in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With the surviving muster rolls of the Saxon army, both health and nutritional status of servicemen can be examined. The military administration's focus of recording health-related issues changed, however. An earlier recording of injuries and also diseases of soldiers was replaced by a more general medical assessment that also generated public health-related information. From these data a trend of physical infirmity and nutritional status is derived. It is clear that around 1820, in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, servicemen generally were in poor health because many of them suffered from war injuries, while many others simply were malnourished and ill. The nutritional status, as depicted in average height, declined sharply thereafter, and malnourishment and diseases related to it continued to be prevalent well into the nineteenth century, a period in which Saxony, a pioneering region of German industrialization, experienced rapid economic growth. Although the Saxon conscript data on height and physical fitness was studied systematically in the middle of the nineteenth century, substantial attempts of reform based on these data to improve the nutritional status of the population cannot be observed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a report on a conference on the medieval and early modern nobility of Saxony, Germany, and Bohemia, Czech Republic, held in Dresden, Germany, from November 28-29, 2013. Topics of discussion included the internationalism and cosmopolitanism of the medieval nobility, cultural, social, and economic relations between noble families in the Saxon-Bohemian borderlands, and the histories of various noble families such as the Salhausens, Schönbergs, and Watzdorfs.

The article presents a report from a February 16-18, 2012 conference in Plauen, Germany on the history of relations between Saxony and the current Czech Republic. Topics of presentations given included the architecture of the "Saxon Renaissance," the history of various levels of the nobility of Bohemia, and 19th-century Bohemian immigration to Saxony.

The paper deals with historical migration and integration processes on the basis of small-scale immigration into Saxon Upper Lusatia from 1815 to 1871. The focus of the analysis is on the permanent settlement of foreigners in Upper Lusatia and their acquisition of citizenship in the Kingdom of Saxony. This includes the development of immigration and citizenship policy in Saxony, with particular attention on the immigration practice of the responsible authorities. Also addressed are conflicts resulting from immigration which at the governmental level meant the rejection of poverty migrants, while at the level of the receiving communities the prevention of potential commercial competitors was paramount. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on a conference on the history of Chemnitz, Germany, and the surrounding region of Saxony in the 15th century, which was held in Chemnitz from October 27-29, 2011. Topics discussed included historiography of Saxony and Central Germany in the late Middle Ages, the Saxon Fratricidal War of 1446-1451, and the charter and laws of the city of Chemnitz in the 15th century.

The article presents a discussion on questions regarding the heritage of dukes from the Northeim family line. The author responds to a critique of his theories about the Northeim family's origins in the aristocratic house of Luxembourg, which was made by historian Eduard Hlawitschka in 1999 and 2007. Discussion focuses on the geographical territories associated with the historical geographic term "Saxonia/Saxones," questions of inheritance and succession in the Luxembourg duchy, and the identity of several noblemen named Siegfried, who might belong to the Luxembourg line or another aristocratic family.

The article examines the work and writings of David Friedländer, a merchant and Jewish enlightenment philosopher who lived in Berlin, Germany from 1750-1834. It discusses his renowned friends, such as philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, and focuses on his friendships with artists including Adrian Zingg and Julius Hübner, whom he met during business travels to Saxony, where Jews had limited rights to settle. The article attempts to show how this situation influenced Friedländer's writings.

Focuses on the application of enlightened or reform absolutism in Saxony, Germany. Influence of the Enlightenment on the monarchy; Political characteristics and economic conditions of Electoral Saxony in the 18th century; Promotion of education and arts.

The article presents a report from a July 10, 2015 conference in Chemnitz, Germany on the end of World War II in Saxony, Germany hosted by the department of 19th- and 20th-century history at the Technische Universität Chemnitz university. Topics of presentations delivered included World War II in German collective memory and culture, the postwar integration of displaced and persecuted persons into Saxon society, and the effects of violence committed against Saxon civilians by the Soviet Army on public perception of the Soviet government.

Examines commercial-legal commercial reforms as one aspect of the economic recovery of Saxony, Germany from the Thirty Years War of 1618-1648 and the growth of the Leipzig trade fairs. Commercial and financial services from Leipzig's merchants; Stabilization of trade routes after 1648; Examination of the 1681 organization of the Leipzig Wholesalers' Association.

Focuses on the Saxon Stellinga uprising of 841-42 in Germany. Feudal nobility; Marxist interpretations of the revolt; Manifestation and concept of peasant resistance; Political power; Conquest of Saxony; Social division and organization; Changes in Saxon landlordship through the importation of Frankish practices; Legal and spiritual issues.

The article discusses the collections of scientific instruments and technical tools of the Dresden Kunstkammer. Information about the development of Saxony, Germany as a prosperous central European state is also presented. The article discusses the preeminence of mining and mettalurgy in Saxony. The locations of several ancient instruments are provided and special focus is given to a beam compass by Christoph Trechsler the Elder. A discussion about the origin of the micrometer screw is also presented.

The article reviews the book "Sächsische Lebensbilder," edited by Gerland Wiemers.