Editing Principality of Calenberg (section)

== Territory ==
[[File:Wappen der Calenberg-Grubenhagenschen Landschaft.jpg|thumb|left|Coat of arms of the ''Calenberg-Grubenhagensche Landschaft'' on a building in Göttingen]]
When [[Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] chose the Principality of Calenberg as his part of the inheritance in 1495, he described it as "the land between the River [[Leine (river)|Leine]] and the [[Deister]]". This geographical description, however, was never totally correct. In fact, the principality extended west of the Leine from Schulenburg as far as [[Neustadt am Rübenberge]] in the north and thus much further north than the foothills of the Deister. To the south-west the territory stretched as far as [[Hamelin]] on the [[Weser]], well beyond the Deister.

The city of [[Hanover]] was largely independent of [[House of Welf|Welf]] territorial lordship, even though it was not formally a [[free imperial city]]. Not until [[George of Brunswick-Calenberg|George of Calenberg]], who had been a successful general in the [[Thirty Years War]], chose the city as his ''[[Residenz]]'' in 1636 could Hanover also be viewed as part of the Principality of Calenberg. [[Calenberg Castle]] was demolished and slighted between 1692 and 1694.

Because of the link that had existed since 1463 between the principalities of Calenberg and [[Principality of Göttingen|Göttingen]], the latter was also sometimes referred to as Calenberg. Today the term [[Calenberg Land]] is usually only used for the region between Hanover and the Deister.