Office of Augustusburg

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The Augustusburg Office was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony . The origins of the office were in the care Schellenberg . The new construction of the castle, begun in 1568 on the site of the old Schellenberg Castle, was called Augustusburg Castle . This name was carried over to the office in 1590.

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 core area of ​​the Augustusburg Office was located east of the city of Chemnitz in what is now the Central Saxony district and in the northeast of the Erzgebirge district . The office was located in the area where the Flöha flows into the Zschopau . The later added areas of the Lichtenwalde office and the Neusorge manor were north of Augustusburg. Most of them were to the west of the Zschopau . The Gelenau exclave was west of the Augustusburg office in the Wolkenstein office .

Adjacent administrative units

The following offices bordered the core area of ​​the Augustusburg office:

Office Lichtenwalde Office Frankenberg-Sachsenburg Office of Nossen
Chemnitz Office Neighboring communities District Office Freiberg
Office of Selva Lauterstein office

history

Care Schellenberg

The origins of the office lie in the direct imperial rule of Schellenberg . Schellenberg Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1206 . In the period from 1275 to 1293 there was a feud between Heinrich and Ulrich von Schellenberg and the Altzella monastery near Nossen . This dispute, known as the Schellenberg feud , ended in 1319 with the devastation of the Altzella monastery property by Heinrich von Schellenberg.

Thereupon the Reichsministeriale von Schellenberg was ostracized and their property was confiscated. The lordship came into the possession of the Margrave of Meißen in 1324 and since then has been called Care Schellenberg as the margravial office . In 1332 the Margrave of Meißen enfeoffed the knight Friedrich von Honsberg with Schellenberg Castle.

The places around the town and castle Zschopau were originally a separate rule, which from 1349 was a fiefdom of the Margraves of Meissen and finally belonged to the Lords of Waldenburg . In 1456 it came to the Saxon Elector and was placed under the administration of the Schellenberg Care Department.

Since the division of Leipzig in 1485, the Schellenberg care facility belonged to the Albertine line of the Wettins .

Office of Augustusburg

Between 1568 and 1573, Elector August had the medieval Schellenberg Castle demolished and the representative Augustusburg Castle, named after him, built in its place . The reason for the construction of the castle was the victory over the Ernestines in the Grumbachschen Handel , which strengthened the supremacy of the Albertines in central Germany. In 1590 the name "Augustusburg" was also transferred to the previous "Amt Schellenberg". In 1610 the reign of Neusorge was sold by the von Schönberg family to the Elector Christian II . The manor with the associated places was incorporated into the Augustusburg office. The two official areas were territorially separated by the offices of Lichtenwalde and Frankenberg-Sachsenburg . In 1783 the administration of the formerly independent Lichtenwalde office was transferred from the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg office to the Augustusburg office. The Frankenberg-Sachsenburg office remained responsible for some administrative areas. With the reorganization of the Lichtenwalde Office, the territory of the Neusorge rulership was linked to the Augustusburg core area via the Lichtenwalde Office.

In 1832 the places under the administration of the Neusorge manor were assigned to the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg office. The places Auerswalde (Rochlitz share) and Nieder-Garnsdorf in the Chemnitz valley, which had previously belonged to the Rochlitz office as exclaves , came to the Augustusburg office in 1832. From 1782 the Augustusburg office was separated into a judicial office and a rent office. The tasks of the judicial office were taken over by the court office of Augustusburg in 1856, which was replaced by the district court of Augustusburg in 1879. The rent office was dissolved in 1865.

Associated places

Care of Schellenberg or Augustusburg Office

Cities
Villages

The village of Hammerleubsdorf was only founded around 1875 and the Wilischthal factory settlement was only founded in 1905. The Lößnitztal factory settlement was also not built until the 19th century.

The following places originally belonged to the official area:

Castles, palaces and manors

Amt Lichtenwalde (1794 to Amt Augustusburg)

Villages
Castles

Reign of Neusorge (1610-1832 to the office of Augustusburg)

Villages
Castles

literature

  • Leo Bönhoff : The oldest offices of the Mark Meissen . In: New Archive for Saxon History . tape 38 , 1917, p. 17–45 ( digitized version ).
  • Lothar Wendler: Castles in the Western Ore Mountains - on Mulde, Schwarzwasser and Zschopau , from the series "Our Home", Rockstroh's illustrated sheets on the history of the Western Ore Mountains, Mike Rockstroh printer and publisher, Aue 2004
  • August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony . 7th volume Zwickau 1829
  • Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke: Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Klaus Gumnior, Chemnitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0
  • Karlheinz Blaschke, (Ed.): Historical local directory of Saxony , Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-15-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The locations of the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg district in the 19th century in the "Handbuch der Geographie"