Office Frauensee
The Frauensee office was a territorial administrative unit of the Landgraviate of Hesse and, from 1567, the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel . It came to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in 1816 .
Until the administrative and territorial reform of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1850 and the related resolution made it as official spatial reference point for claiming nationalistic taxes and labor services , for police , judiciary and military service .
Geographical location
The area of the Frauensee office was in a side valley of the central Werra , between the Thuringian Forest and the Rhön . The village of Frauensee is located on the lake of the same name and is surrounded by the Frauenseer Forst , which forms the northern part of the Salzunger Werrabergland. While it was part of Hesse, the office was almost an exclave in the Saxon-Ernestine region. Only in the west was it connected to Hessian territory. The Rienau and Auenheim farms were exclaves in the neighboring Hausbreitenbach.
The official area is today in the west of the Free State of Thuringia and belongs to the Wartburg district .
The office bordered:
- in the north to the office of Hausbreitenbach (Hessian-Saxon condominium until 1733 , then to the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach),
- in the east to the Saxony-Eisenach office in Eisenach ,
- in the south to the Saxony-Eisenachian office of Krayenberg and
- in the west to the Hessian office of Friedewald .
history
The Hessian Office Frauensee
The office was created when Landgrave Philipp I of Hesse, after the suppression of the peasant uprising in the area of the Hersfeld Abbey in 1526, took possession of the Frauensee monastery with all its accessories as compensation for his war costs. Michael Flach, appointed by the landgrave, carried out the secularization of the monastery. The last remaining nuns in the country were compensated with cash payments as a pension.
Since the sovereignty of the former monastery remained with the Saxon dukes as successors to the Wettin Landgraves of Thuringia, a contract on the ownership of the monastery was concluded between them and the Landgrave of Hesse in 1540. The Landgraviate of Hessen received the lands of Frauensee, and the Saxon dukes received escort rights. The monastery property became the Hessian state domain and their tenants lived in the former provost's office. The now Hessian area of Frauensee soon protruded like a spur into the ducal-Saxon area, as the neighboring Krayenburg with its surrounding area came completely to the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar in 1567 . The office in the north of Hausbreitenbach remained under joint Hessian-Saxon administration until 1733.
After the death of Landgrave Philip I, the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided in 1567/68, with the Frauensee office coming to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel . In 1632 Landgrave Wilhelm V of Hessen-Kassel built a mansion in place of the monastery destroyed by fire in 1627, which the bailiff lived in.
1733 was Gospenroda affiliated with the Office Frauensee after Landgraf Friedrich his claim to the cooperation with Hessen-Kassel Saxe-Eisenach managed Amtshaus Breitenbach dropped and for u. a. from the same received the place. The offices of Frauensee and Landeck as well as the Hessian share in the Ganerbschaft Treffurt fell under a contract dated April 22, 1729 after the death of the last Hanau Count Johann Reinhard III. , which entered in 1736, as a severance payment to the Electorate of Saxony . As a result, the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel got rid of the electoral Saxon claims to the Hanau-Munzenberger imperial fiefdom . Only six years later, the offices of Frauensee and Landeck came back to Hessen-Kassel through repurchase in 1742.
Napoleonic occupation
During the short-lived Kingdom of Westphalia , the previous Frauensee office was part of the canton Friedewald in the Hersfeld district of the Werra department . After the dissolution of the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1813, the Electorate of Hesse was restored with its previous administrative structure.
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
After the Congress of Vienna , the Frauensee office was ceded to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in 1816. It was affiliated with the neighboring Tiefenort (formerly Krayenberg) office.
In 1849/50 the judiciary was separated from the administration in the Grand Duchy. The former Frauensee office was again separated from the Tiefenort office and with other offices it became the Eisenach administrative district , also known as III. Administrative district was designated, amalgamated with seat in Eisenach . This comprised the northern part of the former Duchy of Saxony-Eisenach , which was also known as the Eisenacher Unterland in the 19th century . Frauensee came to the district court district of Gerstungen legally.
Associated places
The Frauensee office comprised the lands, farms and forests that were formerly part of the Frauensee monastery. In 1816 the Frauensee office consisted of three villages and twelve farms.
- Villages
- Frauensee
- Dönges
- Gospenroda (until 1733 to the office of Hausbreitenbach)
- Yards
- Albertshof
- Auenheim (exclave in the office of Hausbreitenbach)
- Badger pit
- Hetzeberg
- Josthof
- Knottenhof (upper and lower courtyard)
- Lindigshof
- Möllersgrund
- Rohnhöfe ( Unterrohn )
- Rienau (exclave in the office of Hausbreitenbach)
- Schergeshof
- Leap
- Weißendiez
Individual evidence
- ↑ At the same time, the abbey had to give him half of the city of Hersfeld and the hersfeld share in Berka in the Saxon-Hersfeld office of Hausbreitenbach.
literature
- Constantin Kronfeld: Thuringian-Saxon-Weimar history. Regional studies of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, T. 1) Böhlau, Weimar 1878
