Office Colditz

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The Office Colditz was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony . 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 . The administrative seat was Colditz Castle .

Geographical location

The Colditz office comprised a comparatively small area on the Mulde and was centrally located within the Leipzig district . The Zwickau and Freiberg Mulde merge in the official area . The eastern and southern borders of the Leisnig and Rochlitz offices have some exclaves and enclaves. The office included the Thümmlitzwald in the northeast and the Colditzer forest in the center of the office.

Adjacent administrative units

The indication of neighboring dominions is made with neglect of smaller exclaves of the offices.

Inheritance Grimma School Authority Grimma Enclaves: Office Mutzschen , Office Leisnig , Erbamt Grimma
Office Borna and exclave: Erbamt Grimma Neighboring communities Leisnig Office
Office Borna Office Rochlitz and exclaves: Lordship of Wechselburg and Office of Leisnig Office Rochlitz

history

After the first mention of the Burgward in 1046 in the deed of gift of the Burgwarde Colditz, Rochlitz and Leisnig by Emperor Heinrich III. To his wife Agnes von Poitou , the following Emperor Heinrich IV. presented his servant Wiprecht von Groitzsch with the Burgward in 1084 , who expanded the complex into a castle. Thimo I. von Colditz was elevated to the position of Reichsministerialien in 1158 by Emperor Barbarossa . Thus the castle belonged to the Reichsgut ( Pleißenland ).

Since 1158, the rule of the Reichsministeriale von Colditz, later Lords von Colditz , was greatly expanded in the 14th century . In 1309, when the fortress surrendered, Colditz Castle became the property of Margrave Friedrich the Free . Pledged to the House of Wettin in 1396, the Colditz reign was bought in 1404 by the Wettins . This established the margravial office of Colditz with seat in Colditz Castle . 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, the Colditz office was owned by the Albertines . Until 1547 the area around Colditz was a Bohemian fief. The small office existed until the judicial and administrative authorities were reorganized in 1856. The duties of the office were then taken over by the Colditz and Lausick court offices .

Components

Cities
Villages

In 1829 61 villages belonged to the area of ​​the District Colditz.

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Villages (exclaves)

literature

  • Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas 1790 . Gumnior, 2009. ISBN 3937386149
  • Johann Christian Crell : The officials and administrators now living in Chursachsen . Leipzig, 1722.
  • Rudolf Schmidt : The Saxon authorities in the area of ​​the lower Mulde valley from the middle of the 16th to the beginning of the 18th century , Meißen 1913, (social structure of the rural population and official constitution)
  • Leo Bönhoff : The oldest offices of the Mark Meissen . In: New Archive for Saxon History . tape 38 , 1917, p. 17–45 ( digitized version ).
  • Office Colditz . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, pp. 48-55.
  • Office Colditz . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 17th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1830, pp. 497-501.

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