Zagost
Zagost was a historical province of the state of Budissin in the margraviate of Meissen .
geography
Zagost extended along the entire river basin of the Upper Neisse up to the former confluence of the Pließnitz . The Queis formed the eastern border . Thus Zagost included the Queiskreis with the surrounding area of Seidenberg and the Bohemian dominions Friedland , Greiffenstein , Reichenberg , Haindorf , Oderwitz and Zittau . It was the southernmost mountainous region in Upper Lusatia .
The rulership of Zagost was Seidenberg before it was moved to Friedland in 1278.
Since Zagost was a smaller province, it was not divided into many castle warden. Rather, it was only divided into two districts, which were separated by the Neisse. Zagost bordered the country of Budissin in the west, the Duchy of Silesia in the east and Bohemia in the south.
history
The province was probably not created until the beginning of the 12th century as it was not listed anywhere until the end of the 11th century.
In a dispute between the margrave Konrad von Meißen and the Meißner bishop Reinward , King Konrad III decided. that Zagost did not have to provide any construction services for Budissin or any state security services. At this time the province also became part of the Budissin country. In 1158 the country went to Bohemia.
In the 80s of the 12th century, Seidenberg was captured by Burkhard von Kittlitz , who was then banned by the Meißner bishop.
In 1188 the bishops of Meißen acquired worldly property and built the Michaeliskirche on the Seidenberg near the town of the same name as one of the oldest mission churches in Upper Lusatia. The church on Michelsberg, as the mountain was called from then on, was the seat of an archpriest who was initially under the direct control of the bishop and, from 1307, under the archdeacon in Budissin. At that time, Zagost comprised the estates of the Meissen diocese in the southeast of Upper Lusatia, including their Bohemian possessions around Fridland.
Surname
The name Zagost means in the surrounding Slavic languages (as well as Latin Transsilvania ) as much as land beyond the mountain forests or land behind the forest ("za gozdom"). Who gave the area the name is controversial in research. Seen from Bohemia, it could refer to the location behind the mile-long wooded mountainous region (border forest) to Upper Lusatia, but a Sorbian name is also possible and not unlikely, which then refers to the location from Bautzen behind the wooded property .
literature
- Gunter Oettel: The Gau Zagost and the medieval state development on the Upper Neisse and Mandau up to the foundation of the city of Zittau in the middle of the 13th century . In: Messages of the Zittau History and Museum Association . tape 22 . Zittau 1995.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences: New Lusatian magazine . Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences, 1834 ( digitized version [accessed on April 9, 2010]).
- ^ Johann Gottlieb Korschelt: History of Oderwitz . Along with a view. H. Trommer, Neu-Gersdorf 1871, p. 3 .
- ↑ Joachim Huth: The Slavic pre-settlement of the Eigenes circle. In: Lětopis B 9/1 [1962], Volkseigener Verlag Domowina, Bautzen 1962, pp. 22–59