Georgenthal Office

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The Georgenthal office was a territorial administrative unit of the Ernestine duchies . From 1640 it belonged to the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha , from 1672 to the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and from 1826 to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .

Until the administrative and territorial reform of the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1858 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 Georgenthal office was on the northern edge of the Thuringian Forest , only at Tambach-Dietharz did the office border run up to the Rennsteig on the ridge of the mountains. In the official area was the upper reaches of the Apfelstädt , which rises near the Rennsteig near Tambach-Dietharz. The Cobstädt exclave was located northwest of the administrative area between Gotha and Erfurt am Rettbach , a tributary of the Apfelstädt.

The official area is now in the center of the Free State of Thuringia and belongs to the district of Gotha .

Adjacent administrative units

When it was founded, the Georgenthal office bordered the county of Henneberg in the south-west and south until the Counts of Henneberg died out in 1583 , with the south-west bordering Schmalkalden being under the joint administration of the Landgraviate of Hesse and the County of Henneberg-Schleusingen.

In the 16th and 17th centuries the political affiliation of the surrounding areas changed. a. through the following events:

  • Transfer of the Reinhardsbrunn monastery to Wettin-Saxon ownership after 1525 (Ernestiner)
  • Divisions and amalgamations of the Ernestine duchies from 1572
  • Extinction of the Counts of Henneberg in 1583: the Schmalkalden rule became the sole property of the Landgraviate of Hesse, which in 1619 also received the Hallenberg office, which had been in Saxony since 1583

Since the founding of the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg in 1672, the Georgenthal office has bordered the following areas:

The Cobstädt exclave was north-west of the office and bordered the Gotha office in the north and east, the Ichtershausen and Wachsenburg office in the south and the Grafschaft Gleichen in the west (all belonging to the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg)

history

Georgenthal Monastery

The Cistercian monastery “St. George "in 1347 as" Monastery Georgenthal mentioned, "was in 1143 by the Count of Schwarzenburg related by the Count of Kevernburg founded. These were guardian bailiffs of the monastery until they died out in 1385. Then the Landgraves of Thuringia took over this task from the House of Wettin . In 1335, the monastery owned almost 11,000 hectares of land with ten later places of office and further property in other places, which had come to the monastery through donations.

With the division of the Wettin possessions in Leipzig in 1485, the patronage of the monastery came to the Ernestines . During the Peasants' War , the Georgenthal monastery was plundered and almost completely destroyed by an insurgent peasant army in 1525, the members of the convent fled to the city of Gotha. In 1528 the monastery was dissolved ( secularization ) by the Saxon Elector Johann the Steadfast . The monastery complex then served as a quarry.

Ernestine duchies

In 1531 the monastery property was confiscated by Elector Johann the Permanent. The former monastery and its ten villages have since formed the “Georgenthal Office”. As a result of the Schmalkaldic War , the Ernestines lost their electoral dignity in 1547, which meant that their possessions were united in the Duchy of Saxony . When Erfurt divided the Duchy of Saxony in 1572, the Georgenthal office was assigned to the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar . From 1600, one of the monastery buildings was converted into a summer residence, the “Georgenthal Castle”. It was designed and used, among others, by Duke Ernst the Pious of Gotha . During the Ernestine partition in 1640, the Georgenthal office came to the newly founded Duchy of Saxony-Gotha , which was expanded to the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg in 1672 . As a result of the “ Gotha Main Recess ”, the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg was divided again in 1680, with the Georgenthal office remaining with the greatly reduced Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg. In 1750, under the care of the ducal forest administration, the colonist settlement "Friedrichanfang" near Crawinkel , which has been part of the office since then, was founded.

After the Saxon-Gotha-Altenburg line had died out, the Hildburghausen Partition Treaty of November 12, 1826 resulted in a comprehensive restructuring of the Ernestine duchies . The state part of Saxe-Gotha came with the office Georgenthal to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , whose two parts of the country were henceforth governed in personal union. In 1830 administration and justice were separated, and the new Georgenthal justice office was established in Georgenthal.

The Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha was divided into independent cities and district offices in 1858. The Georgenthal office was integrated into the Ohrdruf district office , while the administrative tasks of the Georgenthal justice office were transferred to the Ohrdruf justice office in 1869 .

Associated places

Official Villages
Monasteries and castles

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Georgenthal justice office in the Thuringia archive