Dornburg Office

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The Dornburg office was a territorial administrative unit of the Ernestine duchies . It was formed in 1358 from the Dornburg rule. The office belonged to the Albertinians from 1485 to 1547 , then to the Ernestines . From 1572 to 1603 it belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar , from 1603 to the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg , from 1672 to 1690 to the Duchy of Saxony-Jena , then again to Saxony-Weimar and from 1741 to the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . After the elevation of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach to the Grand Duchy in 1815, the Dornburg office underwent a territorial change.

Until the administrative and territorial reform of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in 1850 and the associated dissolution, the office was the spatial reference point for the collection of sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , judiciary and military service .

Geographical location

The Dornburg office stretched with its northwestern branch from the Ilm valley over the Ilm-Saale-Platte to the middle Saale valley in the east. The south-western part with Oberndorf, Krippendorf, Groß- and Kleinromstedt was separated from the main part of the office until 1815/16 by the places Hermstedt and Stobra, which until then belonged to the office Kapellendorf. The Kunitz exclave, which was separated from Dornburg by the Jena office, also belonged to the Dornburg office. Part of the Tautenburg Forest , the Gleißberg near Kunitz and the old Gleisberg near Graitschen on the Gleise also belonged to the official area .

Today the official area is in the eastern center of the Free State of Thuringia . The northwest of the former office today belongs to the Weimarer Land district , the southeast to the Saale-Holzland district . Kunitz and Krippendorf are districts of the independent city of Jena .

Adjacent administrative units

Situation up to the Congress of Vienna in 1815

The following offices bordered the Dornburg office until 1815 (without considering exclaves of Ernestine offices):

Furthermore, the office bordered on the following exclaves of Ernestine offices:

The Stobra / Hermstedt exclave of the Kapellendorf office was in office until shortly after 1815 , separating the Dorndorf office into a larger eastern and a smaller western part. Both places became part of the Dornburg office after 1815.

Kunitz, part of the Dornburg office, was almost entirely in the Jena office.

Situation after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and the enlargement of the office

After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the new territory of Dornburg bordered the following administrative units:

history

Dornburg reign

The Dornburg settlement was first mentioned in a document in 937 after the Liudolfinger came to power as a civitas (Palatinate, fortified settlement). The name of the settlement Dornburg derives from the probably in the 9th century as the Carolingian Empire Castle incurred Dornburg from. In the 10th century, together with Kirchberg Castle near Jena under the Ottonians, it came more strongly into imperial politics. With the end of the last Liudolfinger, Heinrich II. , In 1025, the Dornburg palace lost its importance, but it remained in imperial possession.

In 1083 Wiprecht von Groitzsch received the Dornburg from King Heinrich IV as a fief for his services . Later she was to as Reichsministeriale used Lords of Lobdeburg verlehnt that occur in a falsified document 1221/1261 as a court masters. In 1282 at the latest, the Vargula taverns were given by the Emperor Dornburg as imperial fiefs , although they had already owned property in the vicinity of the castle. The branch of the family residing at the castle was called "Schenken von Dornburg" in the following years.

Up until the Thuringian Count War (1342–46) the taverns were able to hold Dornburg as a fief. When it was sold to the Counts of Schwarzburg and Orlamünde , Dornburg was first mentioned as a town with citizens in 1343. In the same year, the Wettins imposed the feudal rule on the new owners, which remained after the end of the war.

Dornburg Office (1358 to 1815)

In 1358 Dornburg was placed under the direct administration of the Wettins and appointed an official . The Dornburg office existed almost unchanged until the beginning of the 19th century. In 1404 the neighboring Camburg office received its own bailiff, who also had his seat in Dornburg. The two offices of Dornburg and Camburg were administered together until the 17th century.

The Wettins pledged Dornburg Castle several times in the years after 1358, so that there were frequent changes of ownership. In the Saxon Fratricidal War of 1451, the old imperial castle was besieged, conquered and badly damaged. The so-called Old Castle, which is now known as the Old Castle, was probably built on its foundation walls afterwards. After multiple, provisional divisions among the Wettins, the division of Leipzig in 1485 led to the final separation into the Albertine and Ernestine lines, in which the offices of Dornburg and Camburg came to the Albertines. The "Care Gleißberg " with the villages Kunitz, Golmsdorf, Naura, Beutnitz, Löberschütz, Laasan, and Gniebsdorf was affiliated to the Dornburg office. When the partition contract was revised on June 25, 1486 in Naumburg , the Gleißberg nursing home was returned to the Elector Ernst of Saxony . Only Kunitz remained with the then Albertine office of Dornburg and thus formed an enclave in the Ernestine office of Jena .

The Saxon hereditary princess Elisabeth von Rochlitz (1502–1557), born Landgrave of Hesse, received the Albertine offices of Dornburg and Camburg in 1543, after she renounced her Wittum (offices of Rochlitz and Kriebstein ) assigned in 1537 .

After the Wittenberg surrender , the offices of Dornburg and Camburg were handed over to the Ernestines in 1547. When Erfurt was divided in 1572, they came to the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar and when it was divided in 1603 to the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg . After the older Saxony-Altenburg line died out in 1672, the Dornburg office was assigned to the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar when the country was now divided. The Camburg office, however, came to the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha , which has been called Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg since then . The Duchy of Saxony-Weimar, enlarged by the attack of part of Saxony-Altenburg, was divided again in the same year, making the Dornburg office part of the Duchy of Saxony-Jena since 1672 . After this duchy had expired in 1690, the country was divided again, with the Dornburg office being assigned to the duchy of Saxony-Weimar.

After Duke Ernst August von Sachsen-Weimar left the Old Castle in Dornburg in 1717 , this became the seat of the administration of the Dornburg Office . With the union of the duchies of Saxony-Weimar and Saxony-Eisenach in 1741, the Dornburg office has belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach ever since .

Dornburg Office (1815 until dissolution in 1850)

Due to the effects of the Congress of Vienna , the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach was elevated to a Grand Duchy in 1815 . This was associated with a number of territorial gains, including a. Parts of the Thuringian District of the Kingdom of Saxony . The former royal Saxon towns of Steudnitz, Pfuhlsborn (exclave), Großheringen (exclave) (all from the office Tautenburg ) and Lachstedt (exclave) (from the office Naumburg ) were affiliated to the Dornburg office .

From the neighboring Saxon-Weimar offices, the Dornburg office received after 1815 the places Hermstedt and Stobra from the Kapellendorf office , the Hainichen from the Jena office and the Stiebritz from the dissolved Heusdorf office . The administrative locations Flurstedt, Oberndorf, Obertrebra and Sulzbach, however, were affiliated to the Office Roßla .

In 1849/50, jurisdiction was separated from administration in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . The patrimonial courts existing in the office were also repealed. The Dornburg office came with other offices in the Weimar district to the Weimar II administrative district, which was also referred to as the II. Administrative district and in 1868 was named " Apolda administrative district ".

For the jurisdiction of the Office annulled Dornburg while 1850 was Justice Office Dornburg built to where the majority of the Office and some adjacent villages were among other offices. With the entry into force of the Courts Constitution Act on October 1, 1879, the Dornburg Justice Office was dissolved and the places were divided between the Apolda and Jena district courts .

Associated places

Places that belonged to the Dornburg office before 1815

Cities
Official Villages
Castles and Palaces
Desolation
  • Bernsroda (near Hirschroda)
  • Zeptritz, Hermnitz and Krahndorf (near Utenbach)

Places that came to the Dornburg office after 1815

from other offices in the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
from the Kingdom of Saxony

Places that came from the Dornburg Office to the Roßla Office after 1815

  • Flurstedt
  • Oberndorf
  • Obertrebra
  • Sulzbach

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Local history of Kunitz and Laasan
  2. ↑ The Jenaische Landesportion in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 6
  3. ↑ Locations of the administrative district Apolda in the municipality register 1900
  4. ^ Ministerial announcement, the delimitation of the geographical districts of the local courts existing in the Grand Duchy from October 1, 1879 on April 24, 1879 ( Reg.Bl. p. 251 ff. )
  5. ^ Plan for the organization of the regional courts in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach on the basis of the German Judicial Constitution Act of January 27, 1877. In: Landtag negotiations from 1877. First division. Exchange of correspondence between the Grand Ducal State Government and the one and twentieth ordinary Diet. Weimar 1878, pp. 751-753 ( online ).