Back Саксония-Цайц Bulgarian Sachsen-Zeitz BR Sachsen-Zeitz German Saksio-Zeitz EO Ducado de Sajonia-Zeitz Spanish Duché de Saxe-Zeitz French דוכסות סקסוניה-צייץ HE Саксен-Цейц Russian Sachsen-Zeitz Swedish 薩克森-蔡茨 Chinese
Duchy of Saxe-Zeitz Herzogtum Sachsen-Zeitz (German) | |||||||||
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| 1657–1718 | |||||||||
.svg) Saxe-Zeitz territories within the Wettin lands, about 1680 | |||||||||
| Status | Secundogeniture of Saxony | ||||||||
| Capital | Zeitz | ||||||||
| Government | Duchy | ||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern Europe | ||||||||
• Established | 1657 | ||||||||
• Fell back to Saxony | 1718 | ||||||||
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The Duchy of Saxe-Zeitz (German: Herzogtum Sachsen-Zeitz) was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1656–57 as a secundogeniture of the Electoral Saxon house of House of Wettin. Its capital was Zeitz. The territory fell back to the Wettin electoral line in 1718.