Dresden office

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Map of the Meissnian district, Dresden administrative district, with the Dresden office

The Dresden office , occasionally also the Dresden Upper Office , was an administrative unit of the Meißnische Kreis in the Electorate of Saxony , which was elevated to the Kingdom of Saxony in 1806, with the later residence city of Dresden as the main town and official or administrative seat. 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 .

history

The roots of the office lie in the late Middle Ages.

The Kingdom of Saxony the Office Dresden shelter in the 19th century Kreishauptmannschaft Dresden . In 1831 the office was split into the Dresden Justice Office and the Dresden Rent Office , which existed until 1851. The Dresden Justice and Rent Office were finally dissolved and the remaining tasks were transferred to other Saxon authorities in Dresden.

Components of the office

Places on the left of the Elbe, including the city of Dresden, on the right of the Elbe, belonged to the Dresden office. At one time 143 villages belonged to the Dresden office.

The official area is now completely in the Free State of Saxony .

Cartographic representations

The first map specifically of the Dresden office dates from 1712 and was made by the Saxon pastor Adam Friedrich Zürner , who received an order from Elector August the Strong after he had given him a self-drawn map of the Hayn office (Grossenhain) on April 24, 1711. had submitted, for which he had received 150 thalers. In the same way, Zürner designed the first special map of the Dresden office, which was to be followed by more in the following centuries, so and so on. somewhat delayed by Johann George Schreiber (together with the neighboring office of Grillenburg ).

Personalities

  • Johann Samuel Göbel (1762–1798), Saxon finance secretary and historian, temporarily in the Dresden office as an accessist, later as vice-actuary

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Directory of offices in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

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