Office Frauenstein
The Frauenstein office was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony in the Erzgebirge district .
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 .
Geographical expansion
The area of the Frauenstein office is located in the central Ore Mountains . In the south, the office bordered directly on the Kingdom of Bohemia . The Alte Freiberg-Teplitzer Poststrasse ran through a section of the official area as an important traffic axis.
history
The upper middle Ore Mountains were initially only relatively sparsely populated. With the development of the administrative constitution in Saxony, the Frauenstein office also emerged from the medieval Frauenstein care . The office was finally dissolved after the middle of the 19th century.
Associated places
The main place of the office was the eponymous city Frauenstein . There were also several official villages and manors, including Holzhau , Mulda / Sa. , Nassau , Rechenberg , Reichenau , Schönfeld and Weigmannsdorf. In addition Ammelsdorf, Bienenmühle , Kleinbobritzsch, Burkersdorf, Dittersbach, Friedersdorf, Hartmannsdorf , Hermsdorf / Erzgeb. , Randeck and Teichhaus .
In 1560 the Kreuzwald between the two villages of Reichenau and Hermsdorf / Erzgeb , which had previously belonged to the Frauenstein office, became . assigned as an exclave to the Altenberg office.
The exclave of the " Einsiedler Wald " was east of Neuhausen / Erzgeb. between the Flöha in the north and the Schweinitz in the south. It was enclosed in the north, west and south by the Purschenstein rule (from 1696 part of the Freiberg district office ). In the east it bordered the Kingdom of Bohemia . In 1814 this exclave with the Lauterstein office was exchanged for the Frauenstein exclave " Hirschberger Wald" in the Seiffener Winkel east of Olbernhau with its three towns and two mills.
literature
- Christian A. Bahn: The office, castle and town of Frauenstein. Which is remarkable because of its antiquity, as well as because of the owners, changes, scholars and honored sons, among other events , Friedrichstadt near Dresden 1748
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0
Web links
- Offices Directory - the Office of Frauenstein in the historical gazetteer of Saxony.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schumann, Lexikon von Sachsen , Vol. 5, Zwickau 1818, p. 164