The city of Altenburg and the surrounding lands were the tiny duchy of Saxe-Altenburg from 1826 to 1918 ; afterwards it was a state within the Weimar Republic for a short time , before it was dissolved in 1922 in order to join the state of Thuringia .
The city of Altenburg and the surrounding land were the tiny duchy of Saxe-Altenburg from 1826 to 1918 ; afterwards it was a state within the Weimar Republic for a short time , before it was dissolved in 1922 in order to join the state of Thuringia .