Office Düben

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The Düben office was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony in the Leipzig 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 . The administrative seat was Düben Castle .

Geographical location

The office Düben was in the north of the Leipzig district. It was affected by the Mulde in the southwest .

The territory of the former Düben office is now divided. The southern part with Düben, Durchwehna, Authausen and Görschlitz belonged to the district of North Saxony in the Free State of Saxony , the northern part with the Dübener Heide and the places Schwemsal, Schwerz, Söllichau and Tornau belongs to the districts of Anhalt-Bitterfeld and Wittenberg in the state of Saxony-Anhalt .

Adjacent administrative units

The Düben office bordered the Torgau office to the east, the Eilenburg office to the south , with which it was temporarily connected, the Delitzsch and Bitterfeld offices to the west and the Wittenberg office to the north .

District Office Wittenberg
Office Bitterfeld Neighboring communities Office Torgau
Delitzsch Office Office Eilenburg Office Eilenburg (exclave)

history

The office of Düben had passed to the Margraves of Meissen in the 14th century and belonged to the Leipzig district .

In 1423, Elector Friedrich the Arguable sold the office for 1000 shock to the brothers Heinrich and Tham Löser and in 1425 it was pledged to Hanns Pack on Finsterwalde . 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, it has been in the possession of the Albertines . It was not until 1546 one appears again wettinischer bailiff in Bad Duben .

As a result of the Saxon collaboration with the French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte , the office of Düben was added to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. It was integrated into the district of Bitterfeld in the administrative district of Merseburg in the province of Saxony .

Components

Cities
Official Villages
Knights and free goods
Vorwerke
  • Through pain
  • Schwerz (part of the Schwemsal Chamber Estate)
Desolation
  • Dielitz (near Authausen)

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