#ask-sachsen

Q: Did the GDR time bring you closer to the other GDR states?

“We did meet during GDR times to deal with everything that had happened and was happening together.”

Q: Actually, have you ever won a war? You have always been on the wrong side, no? Didn’t you even change sides once and lost all the same?

“Well, I mean… Uh…”

End of theSchmalkaldic War: Saxon Elector captured and replaced, war lost, Schmalkaldic League dissolved.

End of the 30 years war: Saxony plundered by Swedes, Plague acquired, money gone.

((Albrecht von Wallenstein: Very successful Austrian Commander. Robbed Lusatia, which factually belonged to neutral Saxony at that point, during the war.))

End of the Great Northern War: War that Saxony started lost by Saxony, Prussia strengthened, future doomed, Augustus the Strong having illusions of grandeur.

End of the first Silesian War: No gain despite being on the winning side. Fuck Prussia, guess I’ll side with Austria now.

End of the second Silesian War: War lost, one Million Taler paid to Prussia, importance lost, fuck Prussia.

End of the Seven Years War: War lost, economy ruined, Dresden tainted by seven years of Prussians, one electoral palace lost, that importance is not coming back either, fuck Prussia and also Austria for being a shitty ally.

End of the War of the Fourth Coalition: War lost, money lost, forced into the Confederation of the Rhine, made into… a Kingdom?

End of the anti-napoleonic German Campaign of 1813: War technically lost once again, but who cares, governed by Prussia and Russia, Confederation of the Rhine is no more, territory lost, feeling amazingly connected to the family.

End of the Austro-Prussian War: Forced to join North German Confederation, luckily not annexed by Prussia, fuck Prussia by the way.

“Well I... may have gotten drunk with the Countess Orzelska once. ...Or twice. ...Or regularly.”

Heinrich: “Both of the first questions’ answers took place on the same day for me.”

“The first other representatives I’ve ever seen were East Francia and the representatives of the old Duchy of Saxony. I was amazed. Not that I knew that I was like them back then…”

Albrecht: “My first memory would be my brother taking me to the Irminsul… The first other representative I’ve met…”

“… would be Francia. Needless to say that I was not too happy about it.”

“We even have almost the same name, oh God this is so weird…”

//They really do have the same name, only in a different way of writing. And Albrecht had the same surname until 1918. Oh my god.

“When I converted to Protestantism the whole traditional Fasching-thing kind of died out due to the lack of Ash-Wednesday. I was physically 16 back then and gosh did I miss it - though now that it’s coming back I don’t really care about it anymore. 

Break my Muse

“... Yyyyeah, you’ll have to try harder to ruin my self esteem. Also my name is Albrecht.

“Brand wise it would be…”

“Obviously. The Meissen manufactory, the first European porcelain manufactory ever, was founded in 1710 as “Royal-Polish and Electoral-Saxon Porcelain-Manufactory”. One of their classics would be the so called ‘Zwiebelmuster’ (”Onion Pattern”)…”

“Or the ‘Streublümchen’ (”Strewn Flowers”)…”

“But they have so many more things! Like figurines.”