Frstlich Schsischer Hofbuchdruckerei zu Altenburg moved to Altenburg in Thuringia in 1604, releasing publications the entire time (though its most prominent one was in 1606).
In 1604, after the duke's death, the press moved to Altenburg. Furstlich Sachsischer Hofbuchdruckerei of Altenburg, Germany, is used generically in this article to denote a succession of book printers (sometimes synonymous with "publishers") based in Altenburg, in the German state of Thuringia (formerly East Germany), that  under various capacities, names, and owners  have endured as one continuous printing operation, without interruption (save and except wars), for four hundred and twenty-six years  since 1594, the early modern German period. 15401612). The earliest extant published work from the Altenburg press is Lotio Pedum (1606). 
