Office Goldbeck

Goldbeck Castle, seat of the Goldbeck Office

The Goldbeck office was an electoral Brandenburg , later a royal Prussian domain office with its seat at Goldbeck Castle (today the Goldbeck district of the city of Wittstock / Dosse in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district , Brandenburg ). Goldbeck Castle and its accessories originally belonged to the Bishops of Havelberg , but had been lent to the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin by the beginning of the 14th century at the latest . With the extinction of the male line of the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin in 1524, Goldbeck Castle and its accessories fell to the Brandenburg Elector Joachim I as a settled fiefdom, but remained under the lordship of the Havelberg bishop. In 1571 the Havelberg Monastery was incorporated into the Electorate of Brandenburg. The overlordship of the Havelberg bishop ceased to exist and Goldbeck Castle was initially awarded by the elector. The elector bought it back in 1687 and converted the rule into a sovereign office , the Goldbeck office. In 1872 the Goldbeck office was dissolved.

Inner courtyard of Goldbeck Castle

history

Goldbeck Castle and its accessories (with the villages of Gadow, Zootzen and shares in Groß Haßlow and the desert field marks Buchholz, Luhme, Neuendorf, Repente and Kleinzerlang) were secular property of the Bishop of Havelberg (i.e. the Hochstift Havelberg). But it was awarded early on to the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin. These in turn lent Goldbeck Castle and accessories to their vassals. From 1363 to 1421 the v. Bosel, 1479 the v. Rohr attests to Goldbeck Castle. In 1325, the Counts of Lindow sold the oppidum Dossow, which originally belonged to the accessories of Goldbeck Castle.

Since the Counts of Lindow were vassals of the Brandenburg margraves, the fiefdom fell back to the Elector after the death of the last Count of Lindow in 1524. He had to take the rule as a fiefdom of the Havelberg bishop. 1538 was a v. Putlitz captain at Goldbeck Castle. In 1571 the diocese was secularized and the overlordship of Bishop Havelberg ceased. Elector Johann Georg , however, was in chronic financial difficulties and then lent the rule of Goldbeck to the governor Georg v. Blankenburg. He died childless in 1622 and the rule was given by Elector Georg Wilhelm the Conrad v. Burgsdorf awarded. After his death in 1652, his brother Johann Ehrentreich v. Burgsdorf the rule Goldbeck. Johann died in 1656 just four years after his brother Konrad. Goldbeck now went to Konrad's daughter Margarethe Catharina von Burgsdorff (* 1637; † 1692), who was married three times. Her first husband was the Kurbrandenburg court and chamber judge Ludwig von Kanitz (or Canitz) (* 1626; † 1654) from the Prussian line of this family. In her second marriage she was married to Field Marshal Joachim Rüdiger von der Goltz (1620–1688). The marriage was divorced in 1674. And then she married the third marriage to the Norman nobleman Pierre Brunboc de Larrey / Laray. In 1687, Elector Friedrich Wilhelm (Brandenburg) bought the Goldbeck estate from Margaretha Catharina Baroness von Brunboc de la Ray. Goldbeck was now a sovereign office. In 1725 the remote villages of Luhme , Repente and Kleinzerlang were separated from the Goldbeck Office and transferred to the Zechlin Office .

Associated places

According to the local register of 1817, the Goldbeck office included:

• Blandikow (Blantikow, Dorf ) (today a district of the municipality of Heiligengrabe). Around 1817 the office no longer had any property here. In 1685 the office gave its shares to the Wittstock office, while the Wittstocke office ceded its shares in the village of Groß-Haßlow to the Goldbeck office.
• Friedrichsgüte ( Vorwerk ). In 1664 there was a fulling mill on the field of the village of Buchholz, which had definitely fallen desolate before 1525 and was demolished in 1780. In 1778 a farm and a colony were laid out here. In 1846 a fulling mill was built next to the colony.
• Gadow ( village ) (today part of the city of Wittstock / Dosse). The medieval village had fallen in desolation at a time not exactly known, but was rebuilt by 1525.
• Goldbeck ( Amtsvorwerk ) (today part of the city of Wittstock / Dosse)
• Groß Haßlow (Groß Hasslow, Dorf ) (today a district of the city of Wittstock / Dosse). In 1685 the Goldbeck office gave its shares in Blandikow to the Wittstock office, while the Wittstock office ceded its shares in the village of Groß-Haßlow to the Goldbeck office, so that Groß Haßlow then belonged entirely to the Goldbeck office.
• Neuendorf ( Vorwerk ) (today residential area of ​​the city of Wittstock / Dosse). The medieval village of Neuendorf was still inhabited around 1364, in 1525 it is described as desolate, the field mark was used by the farmers of Gadow and Zootzen. In 1628 a sheep farm was set up on the desert field. This was converted into a Vorwerk in the 18th century. In 1787 there were two fulling mills at the Vorwerk. A mill must have died afterwards, because around 1800 there is only talk of a mill.
• New mill, watermill, belonging to Neuendorf (today residential area Brausebachmühle in the Dossow district, city of Wittstock, referred to as new mill in the Schmettauschen map from 1767/87)
• Repente (today part of the municipality of Rheinsberg). The Slavic village of Repente fell into desolation after 1304. In 1525 it is only attested as a desert field mark. In 1699 it was given to the French Réfugié Jacques Garlin by the Goldbeck office to set up a Vorwerk here. In 1752 3 farmers and 2 Büdner were appointed here. The village was owned by the Johanniter Commandery Mirow from 1283 until after 1304 . Then (after 1304) the village or the deserted Feldmark came to Goldbeck Castle and ultimately also to the Goldbeck Office. In 1725 Repente was assigned to the Zechlin office because of its remote location .
• Siebmannshorst ( colony ). The colony, which was initially called Buchhorst, was created in 1777 in the Goldbeck Forest.
• Old fulling mill, watermill, belonging to Friedrichsgüte (today residential area Friedrichsgüter Mühle of the city of Wittstock / Dosse). In 1846 a fulling mill was (again) built next to the Friedrichsgüte colony.
• Zootzen ( village )

Officials

• 1775 Siebmann, chief magistrate
• 1798 - (1801) Pistor, councilor
• (1803) - (1843) Oberamtmann Freier

supporting documents

literature

• Friedrich Beck , Lieselott Enders , Heinz Braun (with the assistance of Margot Beck, Barbara Merker): Authorities and institutions in the territories of Kurmark, Neumark, Niederlausitz until 1808/16. XII, 702 S., Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv Corporation, Böhlau, Weimar 1964 (overview of the holdings of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv Potsdam, part 1, series of publications: Publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv Volume 4), ISSN  0435-5946 .
• Friedrich Wilhelm August Bratring : Statistical-topographical description of the entire Mark Brandenburg. Volume 1: The general introduction to the Kurmark, the Altmark u. Containing Prignitz. XVIII, 494 pp., Maurer, Berlin 1804.
• Lieselott Enders: Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg, Part I, Prignitz. 463 pp., Weimar 1962.
• Berthold Schulze: Property and settlement history statistics of the Brandenburg authorities and cities 1540-1800. Supplement to the Brandenburg office map. Individual writings of the historical commission for the province of Brandenburg and the imperial capital Berlin, Volume 7, 190 pp., Im Kommissionsverlag von Gsellius, Berlin, 1935.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leopold von Ledebur: New general archive for the history of the Prussian state. Volume 2. Mittler, Berlin a. a. 1836 Online at Google Books , p. 111.
2. ↑ Ortschafts = directory of the government = district of Potsdam according to the latest district division from 1817, with a note of the district to which the place previously belonged, the quality, number of people, confession, ecclesiastical circumstances, owner and address, along with an alphabetical register. Georg Decker, Berlin Online at Google Books .
3. ↑ Address calendar, the all royal. Prussia. Lands and provinces, apart from the residences of Berlin, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Sovereign Duchy of Silesia; of the high and low colleges, instances and expeditions located therein, the same of the royal. Servants, magistrates, universities, preachers etc. on the year MDCCLXXV (1775). 582 pp., Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 1775. Online at Sächsische Landesbibliothek Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (additional sheet stapled behind p. 72)
4. ↑ Handbook on the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1798. with an appendix. George Decker, Berlin 1798 Online at Google Books , p. 57.
5. ^ Handbook on the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1801. together with an appendix George Decker, Berlin 1801, p. 66.
6. ↑ Handbook on the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1803. George Decker, Berlin 1803 Online at Google Books , p. 66.
7. ↑ Albrecht Daniel Thaer: Principles of rational agriculture: first volume. Establishment of teaching and trade. XXIV, 380 p., Berlin, Realschulbuchhandlung, 1809 [1] , p. XXI.
8. ↑ Handbook on the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1843. George Decker, Berlin 1843.

annotation

1. ↑ According to Beck et al., Authorities and institutions, pp. 209/210 and Schulze, Brandenburgische Ämter, p. 69, the Wittstock office with its seat at Wittstock Castle was combined with the Goldbeck office in 1786, the official seat of the castle Wittstock moved to Goldbeck Castle. This is not entirely correct. Contemporary publications continue to list the offices of Goldbeck and Wittstock separately even after 1786, such as Bratring, Krug & Mützell, Ledebur, the handbooks of the royal Prussian court and state and the list of localities. The two offices were now both administered from Goldbeck Castle, but continued to be run by different officials as separate offices. According to the handbook on the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1798, the Goldbeck office was administered by the District Councilor Pistor, the Wittstock office by Ms. Pistor, District Councilor (!).

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '  N , 12 ° 35'  E