Pirna Office

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The Pirna office was the administrative center of the Meißnische Kreis in the Electorate of Saxony . Until the end of the Saxon constitution of offices in 1856, it was the spatial reference point for the demand for sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , jurisdiction and army successes . The administrative seat was the city of Pirna on the Elbe .

history

The roots of the office lie in the late Middle Ages. According to Alfred Meiche , it was originally extended to the old border forest between the Burgraviate of Dohna and the once Bohemian area around Königstein . As a result, it initially expanded along the Gottleuba . In 1368 the "districtus Peyernensis" was mentioned. A Bohemian Burgraviate of Pirna and the Bailiwick of Königstein fell to the Wettins in 1404 and were integrated into the Margraviate of Meißen . In the middle to the end of the 15th century the seat of the Bailiwick of Dohna and with it the Dohnaer Schöppenstuhl was moved to Pirna. Around 1500 Pirna and Königstein were combined to form the Pirna Office, with Pirna, which is closer to Dresden, becoming the main town.

The official seat was at Sonnenstein Castle until it was moved to the market square in the town of Pirna in 1647. In the office there was a division of justice and rent offices since 1784 , but it was not until 1831 that they became independent authorities. The Pirna District Court took over the duties of the Pirna Justice Office in 1854. The Pirna court office, on the other hand, was not set up until 1856 and the Pirna Forestry Office, formed in 1865, took over the last tasks of the Pirna Rent Office, which had now been finally closed. From 1874 the area of ​​the former Pirna Office belonged almost entirely to the Pirna Office , from which the Pirna District emerged.

population

In 1754 there were 839 whole and 608 half hofners , 363 gardeners and 1922 cottagers in the Pirna office . In 1779 19,509 people over ten years of age were counted, in 1803 already over 32,000 people. Thereafter, the population rose to 38,103 in 1826 and 43,234 in 1832.

Components of the office

Around 1820 the Pirna office included nine towns (Pirna, Bärenstein , Lauenstein , Neugeising , Liebstadt , Königstein, Gottleuba , Berggießhübel , Dohna ), two direct municipalities ( Hausberg and Burglehn), two mountain spots ( Schmiedeberg , Zinnwald ), two chamber estates ( Sedlitz , Kammerhof), ten hammer estates, 19 old mansions in old script (e.g. Gamig and Cotta ), 14 new writers , seven official houses and 27 immediate official villages and proportionally two further official villages. The Pirna Office also included the following places, at least temporarily:

Personalities

literature

  • Karl August Engelhardt : The Pirna Office . In: DJ Merkel's description of the earth of Electoral Saxony and the countries belonging to it , Volume 3, third, thoroughly improved and increased edition. Dresden, Leipzig 1804, pp. 182-287.
  • Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke: Kursächsischer Ämteratlas 1790 , Klaus Gumnior, Chemnitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 .
  • Alfred Meiche : Historical-topographical description of the Pirna administration. Dresden 1927 (ND Sebnitz 1991). ( Digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of offices in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. ^ Archives of the district office of Meißen in the main state archive in Dresden