Office Bitterfeld

The office of Bitterfeld was a territorial administrative unit in the Kurkreis of the Electorate of Saxony, which was converted into a kingdom in 1806 . Between 1657 and 1738 the Office for Albertine belonged Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Merseburg .

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 office of Bitterfeld was in the southwest of the spa district. It stretched on both sides of the lower reaches of the Mulde south of Dessau . The north-west of the official area was affected by the Fuhne . The office of Bitterfeld had several exclaves in the northwest, west and southeast.

With the exception of two exclaves, the official area is now in the state of Saxony-Anhalt and belongs to the districts of Anhalt-Bitterfeld and Wittenberg . The former exclaves Tiefensee and Lindenhayn belong to the district of Northern Saxony in the Free State of Saxony .

Adjacent administrative units

	Principality of Anhalt	Office of Graefenhainichen
Office Zörbig		Office Düben
Duchy of Magdeburg ( Saalkreis )	Delitzsch Office	Office Eilenburg

history

At the end of the 12th century, in what was later to become the official area in Brehna, a seat of power for the County of Brehna was established , which in 1290 came to the Ascanian Duchy of Saxony . After Albrecht IV's death in 1423, the entire area of ​​the Duchy of Saxony-Wittenberg came to the Wettin Margraves of Meissen.

After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the Bitterfeld 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 .

Between 1657 and 1738 the Office for belonged Albertine Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Merseburg . The phrase "Bitterfeld with Brehna" that appeared here suggests that Brehna was a former independent office. 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. From office Bitterfeld was with surrounding offices district Bitterfeld in the Prussian province of Saxony formed. The southern exclaves Tiefensee, Lindenhayn and Roitzschgen were incorporated into the Delitzsch district in the Merseburg administrative district of the province of Saxony.

Associated places

The office, based in Bitterfeld, comprised two cities, 49 villages with approx. 14,000 inhabitants and 62 desert brands in 1800.

Cities

• Bitterfeld
• Brehna

Villages

Altjeßnitz Beyersdorf Brösa Burgkemnitz Chapel

Friedersdorf Glebitzsch Golpa Gossa Greppin

Grossmoehlau Hohenlubast Wood white Kitzendorf Krina

Mühlbeck Muldenstein Niemegk Petersroda Plodda

Pouch Ramsin Renneritz Regrets Rösa

Roitzsch Salzfurth Sandersdorf Schköna Schlaitz

pain Stakendorf (devastated in 1661) Thalheim Thiemendorf Torna

Wachtendorf Wiesewitz Wolfen Zennewitz Zöckeritz

Zscherndorf

Villages (exclaves)

• Dölsdorf (exclave in the Zörbig office )
• Lindenhayn (exclave in the Delitzsch office )
• Möst (near Schierau) (exclave in the Principality of Anhalt )
• Pösigk (exclave in the Principality of Anhalt )
• Priorau (exclave in the Principality of Anhalt )
• Roitzschgen (exclave in the Delitzsch office )
• Schierau (exclave in the Principality of Anhalt )
• Tiefensee (exclave in the Delitzsch office )

Desolation

The office also included 62 wild brands.

Bailiffs

• Johann Heinrich Horn († 1713)

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

Web links

• Digital Historical Directory of Saxony - Office Directory - The Office Bitterfeld in the historical directory of Saxony
• D 6 Amt Bitterfeld, 1526-1873 (inventory) - The Amt Bitterfeld on the homepage of the State Archives Saxony-Anhalt

Individual evidence

1. ^ The district of Delitzsch in the municipality register 1900
2. ↑ Kitzendorf on gov.genealogy.net
3. ↑ Stakendorf in the history of Sandersdorf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Thiemendorf on gov.genealogy.net
5. ↑ Wachtendorf on gov.genealogy.net
6. ↑ Wiesewitz on gov.genealogy.net
7. ↑ Zennewitz on gov.genealogy.net