Allstedt office

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The Allstedt office was an administrative unit located in Thuringia of the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar , which existed until 1741, and with this came to Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach (from 1815 Grand Duchy, from 1918 Free State), which became part of Thuringia in 1920. The Soviet occupation forces regrouped the area to Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1990, the district town of Allstedt with the incorporated places Einsdorf , Einzingen , Mittelhausen , Niederröblingen (Helme) , Winkel and Wolferstedt has belonged to the state of Saxony-Anhalt , as has Landgrafroda , which is incorporated into Querfurt . Heygendorf , Kalbsrieth and Mönchpfiffel are back in Thuringia.

Geographical location

The official area extended around the former Palatinate Allstedt . The main seat of the office was the city of Allstedt. Among other things, the office bordered on the Saxon office of Sittichenbach .

history

In 1356, Duke Rudolph II of Saxony-Wittenberg was confirmed in the Golden Bull that he was a Count Palatine as an imperial fiefdom, linked to the imperial vicariate. This fell to the Wettins when the Wittenberg dukes died out in 1423. Elector Friedrich II of Saxony continued the practice of enfeoffing the Lords of Querfurt with this earlier imperial fief, which consisted of the castle and town of Allstedt as well as the official area.

After the death of Bruno von Querfurt in 1496 as the last male representative of his noble family, Elector Friederich III. of Saxony the dignity of the Palatinate Count of Allstedt as a reverted fiefdom and united the Allstedt property with the Wettin Palatinate of Lauchstädt . His successor, Elector Johann von Sachsen, enfeoffed Count Albrecht von Mansfeld with Allstedt after the Peasants' War in May 1526 in order to tie the Mansfelds closer to himself. But the debts of the Count of Mansfeld, which led to the sequestration of the Mansfeld-Vorderort line in 1570, cast their shadows when Count Albrecht von Mansfeld pledged the Allstedt office to the Counts of Stolberg in 1542, in dire financial straits . Count Wolfgang zu Stolberg , founder of the Harz line of his house, took over Allstedt in an inheritance division with his brothers and expanded the castle into his residence. But he died very early at the age of 50 and his underage children came under the tutelage of their uncles, who showed little interest in Allstedt and, in need of money, passed the Allstedt office on to the Strasbourg city ​​council in 1554 as a pledge. In the period that followed, numerous lawsuits began to redeem the pledged office of Allstedt, especially since Elector August von Sachsen had handed over sovereignty over the office of Allstedt to the Ernestines in the Naumburg Treaty of 1554. In the Leipzig purchase agreement of 1575 between the Ernestines and Count Karl von Mansfeld, the latter left the Allstedt office to the former for 140,000 guilders. The action brought by the Stolberg counts before the Reich Chamber of Commerce for damages remained without result, so that the Allstedt office remained with Sachsen-Weimar from then on.

Components

In addition to the castle and town of Allstedt, the official area included the villages of Einsdorf, Einzingen, Heygendorf, Kalbsrieth, Landgrafroda, Mittelhausen, Mönchpfiffel, Niederröblingen, Winkel and Wolferstedt.

coat of arms

Blazon of the coat of arms of the Allstedt office, today the city coat of arms of Allstedt: The shield is split, at the back divided by black over silver, above two crossed red swords arranged ( Reich racing flag ), in front a halved, crowned silver eagle on a red field.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Brückner : Between Imperial Estates and Estates: the Counts of Stolberg and their relationship to the Landgraves of Thuringia and later dukes, electors and kings of Saxony (1210 to 1815) , Dößel (Saalkreis) 2005, s. 123ff.