Belzig Office
The Belzig office was a territorial administrative unit in the Kurkreis of the Electorate of Saxony, which was converted into a kingdom in 1806 .
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 expansion
The Belzig office was the northernmost part of the Kurkreis and the Electorate of Saxony. It was in Fläming on the upper reaches of the tarpaulin in the Belziger landscape meadows . The Belzig office only bordered the Electorate of Saxony in the south . In the southwest it bordered the Principality of Anhalt and the rest of the official area was surrounded by the Mark Brandenburg (later to become the Kingdom of Prussia ). The office included two exclaves that were north of the territory in the Kingdom of Prussia . The official area is now in the west of Brandenburg, southwest of Potsdam and belongs to the Potsdam-Mittelmark district , whose district town is today's Bad Belzig .
Adjacent administrative units
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| Kingdom of Prussia ( Ziesarscher Kreis ) |
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history
In 1161 an Ascanian castle was mentioned in Belzig . In the course of the German colonization in the east, an administrative district of the Ascanian electorate of Saxony developed around this castle . In the 15th / beginning of the 16th century, this district was also known as the Vogtei Belzig .
After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the office belonged to the Ernestine line of the Wettins . Since the defeat of the Ernestines in the Schmalkaldic War in 1547 ( Wittenberg surrender ), it was owned by the Albertines .
In the middle of the 15th century the rule of Rabenstein fell to the Saxon Elector and was initially administered as a separate office. In 1550/52 the Belzig office was merged with the Rabenstein office ; the new larger office was initially called Amt Belzig-Rabenstein. In the course of the 18th century the addition Rabenstein was dropped and the enlarged office was again called Amt Belzig.
As a result of the defeat of the Kingdom of Saxony , the Congress of Vienna in 1815 decided to assign territories to the Kingdom of Prussia . a. concerned the entire Kurkreis with its offices. The Belzig office was merged with the Zauchischer Kreis to form the Zauch-Belzig district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg in 1816/7 .
Associated places
According to the local directory of the Potsdam administrative district from 1817, the Belzig office included 75 localities (towns, municipalities, Vorwerk and other settlement areas). In 1817 the office had a population of 6580 people.
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- Villages (exclaves)
- Busendorf
- Great Briesen
- Rabbit
- Klaistow
literature
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0
- Karlheinz Blaschke, (Ed.): Historical local directory of Saxony , Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-15-8
- Ortschafts = directory of the government = district of Potsdam according to the latest district division from 1817, with a note of the district to which the place previously belonged, the quality, number of souls, confession, ecclesiastical conditions, owner and address together with an alphabetical register. Berlin, Georg Decker Online at Google Books .