District Headquarters Bautzen
The district main team Bautzen ( Upper Sorbian Wokrjesne hejtmanstwo Budyšin ) was an administrative unit in Saxony . It comprised the area of Upper Lusatia that remained with the Kingdom of Saxony after 1815 and existed from 1835 to 1932.
history
On May 1, 1835, provincial authorities were installed in the Kingdom of Saxony for the first time, which were comparable to the Prussian administrative districts . The district directorates of Dresden, Leipzig, Zwickau and Bautzen emerged, the latter is to be regarded as the administrative successor to the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia (without the areas ceded to Prussia in 1815). As a result of the Saxon administrative reform of 1873, the four district directorates were transferred to "district chiefs". In 1900 the Chemnitz District Headquarters was also established .
Due to the global economic crisis , the smallest Saxon district main team in Bautzen was merged with the district main team Dresden to form the district main team Dresden-Bautzen in 1932 as part of austerity measures . This was renamed in 1939 in Dresden-Bautzen administrative district , but existed in this form only until 1943. After 1945 there were plans to re-establish administrative districts (Dresden, Chemnitz, Leipzig, Zwickau and again Bautzen), but in favor of the administrative reorganization in the GDR were dropped.
Although Bautzen was a small town in the 19th century, it was administratively placed on an equal footing with the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden and was thus one of the four, later five, central locations in Saxony. This prominent position can be explained with the special history of Upper Lusatia and the Upper Lusatian Union of Six Cities, whose “capital” Bautzen was for centuries. The District Chief of Bautzen therefore stand in a certain tradition of the bailiff of the Oberlausitz .
With its cathedral , Bautzen was also the seat of the Apostolic Prefecture of Meissen . After its location or seat, the prefecture was also called Apostolic Prefecture of Lusatia or Apostolic Prefecture Bautzen . The Holy See made the Lausitz diocese of the Meissen diocese independent in 1567, with an Apostolic Prefecture canonically representing a probationary diocese. In contrast, the diocese of Meißen, based in Meißen, was abolished in its core area of Electoral Saxony in 1581 . In the Lusatian diocesan area of Meissen, the royal Bohemian sovereign there had not pressured Catholics or the church. When Lusatia fell to the Lutheran Electorate of Saxony in 1635, this guaranteed in the transfer agreement ( traditional recession ) that the religious conditions would not be changed.
On June 24, 1921, Benedict XV. the prefecture of Meißen became the new diocese of Meißen , with Bautzen as the seat of the former prefecture now becoming a bishopric. The Dresden-based Apostolic Vicariate in the Saxon Hereditary Lands was abolished at the same time and its territory was assigned to the Bishop in Bautzen.
The loss of the city's central administrative position was compensated to a certain extent by the relocation of other supraregional functions to Bautzen. In 1933, after the disbandment of the district administration in Bautzen, the first state regional archive in Saxony was created (today the Bautzen State Branch Archive ). Bautzen remained the episcopal city until Bishop Gerhard Schaffran moved the seat to Dresden on March 25, 1980 , which is also reflected in the new name of the Diocese of Dresden-Meißen. Today the Ortenburg is the seat of the Saxon Higher Administrative Court .
District Chief
- 1872–1883: Heinrich Woldemar von Beust (1818–1898)
- 1883–1895: Hermann von Salza and Lichtenau (1829–1915)
- 1895–1898: Hans Alexander von Bosse (1835–1898)
- 1898–1906: Richard von Schlieben (1848–1908)
- 1906–1919: Georg von Craushaar (1851–1936)
- 1919–1924: Karl Néale von Nostitz-Wallwitz (1863–1939)
- 1924–1929: Friedrich Wilhelm Richter (1878–1946)
- 1929–1932: Karl Waentig (1878–1957)
structure
The district authorities Bautzen , Kamenz , Löbau and Zittau belonged to the district main team . The two cities of Bautzen and Zittau were spun off from the respective administrative authorities as independent city districts in 1922.
Population development
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Remarks:
- 1846: Schirgiswalde (approx. 2000 inhabitants) comes to Saxony.
- 1855: The city of Stolpen (1347 inhabitants) is transferred to the Dresden district administration.
Others
The vehicle registration number in the Bautzen district team: I.
literature
- Rochus Schrammek: Traffic and building history of the city of Bautzen. VEB Domowina-Verlag Bautzen 1984
- Erich Merkel: Saxon citizenship. A general outline of the constitution and administration in Saxony and the German Empire. Leipzig 1913.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Entry on the Diocese of Dresden-Meißen on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved July 18, 2016.
- ↑ Thomas Noßke: motor vehicle license in the German Reich. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .