Delitzsch Office

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The Delitzsch office was an administrative unit in the Leipzig district 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 .

location

The office was north of Leipzig in the Leipzig lowland bay . In the office were exclaves of the offices of Schkeuditz , Eilenburg , Bitterfeld , Leipzig and the Prussian Saalkreis . The office included two small exclaves in the neighboring Leipzig district office to the south , as well as the three exclaves of the Ostrau manor northwest of the office near the Petersberg .

The majority of the official area is now in the Free State of Saxony and belongs to the district of Northern Saxony , only the former Plaussig exclave is a district of Leipzig. The western part of the district around Landsberg, the former corridor of Döbern in the north of the district and the exclaves of the Ostrau manor are now in the state of Saxony-Anhalt and belong to the districts of Saalekreis and Anhalt-Bitterfeld . Some places have been devastated by lignite mining in the 20th century .

Adjacent administrative units

The Delitzsch office was affiliated to the Leipzig district of the electorate and bordered the Bitterfeld and Düben offices in the north, the Eilenburg office in the east, the Leipzig office in the south and the hall circle of the Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg in the west . Two exclaves were in the Leipzig district office, the three exclaves of the manor Ostrau were between the Zörbig office in the east, the Principality of Anhalt and the Lauchstädt office (exclave) in the north and the Prussian Saalkreis in the west and south.

Office Bitterfeld Office Düben
Duchy of Magdeburg ( Saalkreis ) Neighboring communities Office Eilenburg
Saxony-Merseburg ( Schkeuditz Office ) Office Leipzig

history

The Delitzsch office was an old Wettin dominion and in 1156 it belonged to the Saxon East Mark . In 1291 the area around Delitzsch and Landsberg was sold to the Brandenburg Ascanians as part of the Landsberg region , but was returned to the Wettins in 1347 . The then still independent areas of Landsberg and Reideburg were later incorporated into the Delitzsch office.

When Leipzig was divided in 1485, the Delitzsch office came to the Albertine branch of the Wettins, whose residence was in Dresden. Since that year, the district of the manor Ostrau am Petersberg northeast of Halle (Saale) , which is territorially separated from the office, has also been included in the official area. After the Schmalkaldic War of 1546/47, it was assigned to the Leipzig district of the Electorate of Saxony by Herzog, or now Elector Moritz , when the now greatly expanded Albertine territory was reorganized . Between 1657 and 1738 the Delitzsch office belonged to the Wettin secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg .

The Delitzsch office remained with Saxony until 1815, when it fell to the Kingdom of Prussia due to the provisions of the Congress of Vienna, except for the exclaves Plaussig and Pönitz, which were attached to the Leipzig district office . Since 1816 the area has formed the western part of the Delitzsch district in the Prussian province of Saxony . The places of the exclave of the manor Ostrau were incorporated into the Bitterfeld district. The westernmost places Reideburg, Burg bei Reideburg and Rosenfeld came to the Saalkreis .

Since 1990 most of the former Delitzsch office has belonged to the Free State of Saxony again . Only the extreme west with the city of Landsberg and the surrounding communities and the northern town of Döbern, which had come to the Saalkreis during the administrative reform of 1950/52 , remained with the Saalkreis in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . The area of ​​the Ostrau manor also remained in Saxony-Anhalt.

On the orders of Elector Moritz von Sachsen between 1547 and 1560 a so-called official inheritance book was created for most of the Saxon offices. When exactly this took place for the Delitzsch office is unclear. The surviving official inheritance books for the parts of Saxony that came to the Province of Saxony are now in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives, Wernigerode, and can be researched online.

Associated places

Places in what is now the Free State of Saxony

Cities
Villages
Villages (exclaves)
Manors , farms and individual goods
  • approx. 27 goods (status from 1910), u. a.
  • Buschnau Church
  • Rittergut Kleinwölkau (Krautwölkau; northwest of Delitzsch)
  • Naschkau (northwest of Eilenburg)
  • Manor Neuhaus
Desolation

There were numerous devastations in the official area.

Places in today's state of Saxony-Anhalt

Cities
Villages
Villages of the Ostrau Manor (3 exclaves)

Bailiffs and officials

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Ostrau estate archive in the Saxony-Anhalt state archive
  2. ^ The district of Bitterfeld in the municipality register 1900
  3. ^ The hall circle in the municipality register 1900