Frederick of Saxe-Weissenfels, was a German prince member of the House of Wettin and Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels-Dahme.
Background
He was the sixth son of Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels but first-born from his second marriage with Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg. Because as one of the youngest children of his father he didn"t inherited a share of the Duchy of Saxe-Weissenfels, Frederick became devoted to a military career and therefore since he was fourteen (1687) stayed on the Saxon court in Dresden, where he became Lieutenant General.
Career
In Dahme on 13 February 1711, Frederick married Emilie Agnes Reuss of Schleiz, Dowager Countess of Promnitz-Pless. They had no children. Frederick took residence in his land and commissioned the architects Johann Christoph Schütze and Elias Scholtz from 1711 the construction of the Dahme Castle (German: Schloss Dahme) on the remains of the old-fashioned medieval fortress, who could be finished after four years of construction.
The garden was a summerhouse, sandstone sculptures and caves according with the Baroque style.
However, Frederick never lived there because he died shortly before the completion of the building. Later the last Duke of the Saxe-Weissenfels branch, Johann Adolf II continued the construction work from 1719 and made the Dahme Castle his temporary residence.
Frederick died in Dahme aged 41. He was buried in the Schlosskirche, Weissenfels.