Office of Gommern

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The Amt Gommern was an exclave in the Duchy of Magdeburg (later in the Kingdom of Prussia ), a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony, which was converted into a kingdom in 1806 . It was affiliated with the Kurkreis .

Until it was ceded to the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807, as a Saxon office it formed the spatial reference point for the collection of sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , jurisdiction and military service .

Geographical expansion

The small office of Gommern was an exclave of the Kurkreis in the Duchy of Magdeburg (later in the Kingdom of Prussia ). It was east of Magdeburg and northeast of Schönebeck (Elbe) between Magdeburg Börde and Fläming . Except for the place Glinde, the Elbe formed the southern border of the office. Four exclaves belonged to the office. The area was traversed by the Ehle . Today the official territory is in the center of the state of Saxony-Anhalt .

Adjacent administrative units

Duchy of Magdeburg (later: Kingdom of Prussia )
Duchy of Magdeburg (later: Kingdom of Prussia ) Neighboring communities Duchy of Magdeburg (later: Kingdom of Prussia )
County Barby Office Walternienburg Principality of Anhalt

history

The castle Gommern belonged in 1183 to the rest of the 1180 resolution Duchy of Saxony , which under askanische came domination. Since 1269 the office of Gommern was part of the Burggrafschaft Magdeburg in the possession of the Dukes of Saxony-Wittenberg . From 1283 to 1308 Gommern was pledged to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg and from 1419 to 1539 to the city of Magdeburg . After the Ascanian line of Wittenberg died out , the Gommern office came to the Wettins in 1423 in association with the Duchy of Saxony-Wittenberg . After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the office belonged to the Ernestine line of the Wettins . Since the defeat of the Ernestines in the Schmalkaldic War in 1547 ( Wittenberg surrender ), it was owned by the Albertines . 1554 both companies merged with the also originally to Burgrave's Magdeburg belonging Office Elbenau .

Since 1579, the Electors of Saxony combined the title of Burgrave of Magdeburg with possession of the office . After Napoléon's victory over Prussia , the West Elbe regions of Prussia were integrated into the Kingdom of Westphalia under Napoléon's brother Jérôme . The Kingdom of Saxony , allied with Napoléon, left the offices of Burggrafschaft Magdeburg (i.e. the Amt of Gommern) and the neighboring county of Barby to Napoléon's brother Jérôme after the Tilsit Peace Treaty in 1807 . This incorporated the areas into the department of the Elbe of his Kingdom of Westphalia . In 1813 the Prussian conquest of Gommern and the county of Barby took place. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, they were integrated into the Prussian province of Saxony and assigned to the district of Jerichow I (Amt Gommern) and the district of Calbe a./S. (County Barby).

Associated places

In addition to the city of Gommern, the office included 17 locations, seven of which were in exclaves.

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