Altenberg Office

The Altenberg Office was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony in the Erzgebirge district .

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 .

Geographical expansion

The area of the Office Altenberg is located in the Eastern Ore Mountains . In the south, the office bordered directly on the Kingdom of Bohemia . The Dresden-Teplitzer Poststrasse ran through an eastern section of the official area as an important traffic axis.

history

The upper Eastern Ore Mountains were initially relatively sparsely populated and in the late Middle Ages belonged to the von Bernstein rulers in Bärenstein . By selling it to Duke Albrecht, the Bernstein rule came to Albertine Saxony in 1491. In the course of the formation of the new offices, the Altenberg office was created here with the mountain town of Altenberg as its seat. Only in the period from 1781 to 1833 was the official area co-administered by the official of the Dippoldiswalde office for practical reasons , although the two tax offices Altenberg and Dippoldiswalde and thus the accounting and registry remained separate. In 1833 the formation of the Altenberg court, the judicial office was finally dissolved. The Rentamt continued to exist in conjunction with the Rentamt Dippoldiswalde until 1856.

Associated places

The main place of the office was the eponymous city of Altenberg . The second most important place on the territory of the office were the city of Alt-Geising and the city of Glashütte (Saxony) . In addition, there were several official villages and manors, including Dönschten (later Pirna ) and the desert Weigelswalde .

In 1560 the Kreuzwald between the two villages Reichenau and Hermsdorf / Erzgeb. Detached from the Frauenstein office and assigned as an exclave to the Altenberg office.

literature

• The former Altenberg office at the beginning of the last century , 1920
• Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0

swell

• Files of the Altenberg office in the DDB

Web links

• Offices Directory - the Office Altenberg in the historical gazetteer of Saxony.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Files of the Altenberg Office in the DDB
2. ↑ Schumann, Lexikon von Sachsen , Vol. 5, Zwickau 1818, p. 164