Office of Belgians

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The Office of Belgern was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony that belonged to the Office of Torgau from 1581 . Like this one she was in the Meissen district .

Until it was ceded to Prussia in 1815, as a Saxon office it formed the spatial reference point for the collection of sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , jurisdiction and military service .

Geographical location

The area of ​​the office was on the Elbe between Mühlberg / Elbe in the south and Torgau in the north. The Dahlener Heide was southwest of the office.

Adjacent gentlemen

Office Torgau Liebenwerda Office
Office Torgau Neighboring communities Mühlberg Office
Office Oschatz Mühlberg Office Office Oschatz

history

The area around the city of Belgern belonged to the Buch monastery near Leisnig on the Freiberg Mulde from 1309 to 1526 . In 1365, the Buch monastery finally came under the control of the Margraves of Meissen . After the secularization and dissolution of the monastery, the area belonged from 1526 as "care Belgians" to the office of Torgau in the Meissnian district of the electorate of Saxony . The Saxon elector exchanged the area in 1570 to the diocese of Meißen , whose bishops established it as an office and placed it under the administration of the Wurzen monastery . In 1581 it came back into the possession of the Saxon Elector, who reassigned it to the Torgau office. The Meißner Stiftsamt Wurzen kept the tax collection and the result in about eleven villages, which otherwise remained under the jurisdiction of the Office Torgau.

The area around Belgern remained as part of the Torgau District until 1815 with the Kingdom of Saxony . As a result of the lost war, the Kingdom of Saxony had to cede a large part of its territory to the Kingdom of Prussia after the Congress of Vienna . The former Torgau office with Belgians came to the newly formed Torgau district of the Prussian province of Saxony .

Components

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Bailiffs

  • Christoph von Haugwitz (late 16th century)

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