Grünhain office
The Grünhain office was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony, which was converted into a kingdom in 1806, 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 core area of the Grünhain office, which existed from 1536, lay northeast of the town of Schwarzenberg around the town of Grünhain with the Grünhain monastery and extended in its eastern extension to the Bärenstein south of the town of Annaberg-Buchholz in the Western Ore Mountains . The largest exclave was north of the city of Stollberg / Erzgeb. .
Adjacent administrative units
The information relates to the main part of the office around the main town Grünhain .
| Stollberg Office | Office of Selva | |
| Office Schönburg-Hartenstein |
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Office Schlettau |
| Schwarzenberg district office | Office Crottendorf |
history
The origins of the Grünhain office lie in the rich possession of the Grünhain Cistercian monastery , which, in addition to the property around Grünhain, also had areas in the surrounding areas of Hartenstein , Altenburg and Kaaden (Bohemia) . As early as 1240, the monastery received ten villages in the area around Schwarzenberg from the area of the upper county of Hartenstein . In 1413 the Bohemian care Schlettau was acquired. Since the division of Leipzig in 1485 it belonged to the Ernestine line of the Wettins.
After the Reformation was introduced , Grünhain Monastery was dissolved in 1533 . In the following year the term Grünhain Monastery Office appears for the first time . The former monastic territory came into the hands of the Electorate of Saxony. After the last Grünhain abbot had formally abdicated in 1536, work began on giving the newly created office a more uniform regional structure. The offices of Grünhain (monastery office) and Schlettau (former Schlettau care) were established from the core area around Grünhain . A few more distant villages went to the offices of Zwickau and Altenburg and to the Schönburg dominions . At first there was uncertainty about the Bohemian possessions. Only in 1549 this became the property of the Bohemian king I. Ferdinand over. The Schlettau office was reunited with the Grünhain office shortly after it was founded. After the defeat of the Ernestines in the Schmalkaldic War in 1547, the Grünhain office was Albertinian .
In the course of time the composition of the office changed. Schlettau, which had already been acquired during the time of the monastery, became independent in 1553, but was reassigned into office after the Thirty Years' War. In addition to the town of Elterlein and some villages (1559), the mountain town of Buchholz also took office in 1700 .
As early as 1536, a court book was created that contained the official acts, initially mostly waivers, and was published in regesta form by the Adam Ries Association in 1998 . Due to the above-mentioned reorganization and rearrangement of the possessions, a first official inheritance book could not be created until 1546.
The Grünhain office existed until 1856 as part of the Erzgebirge district and its core area became part of the administrative authorities Schwarzenberg , Annaberg (Schlettau care) and Chemnitz (area north of Stollberg / Erzgeb. ).
Components
| place | current location | Official affiliation before the sale to Grünhain Abbey | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Grünhain with the Grünhain Monastery | City of Grünhain-Beierfeld | upper county of Hartenstein (until 1240) | Has owned the monastery since the monastery was founded |
| Beierfeld ( Beyervelt ) | City of Grünhain-Beierfeld | upper county of Hartenstein (until 1240) | after 1843 to the office of Schwarzenberg |
| Waschleithe | City of Grünhain-Beierfeld | the place was created around 1528 | |
| Obersachsenfeld ( Sachsinvelt ) | City of Schwarzenberg | upper county of Hartenstein (until 1240) | after 1816 to the office of Schwarzenberg |
| Wildenau ( Wildennaw ) | City of Schwarzenberg | upper county of Hartenstein (until 1240) | |
| Raschau ( Raschaw ) | Community Raschau marker Bach | upper county of Hartenstein (until 1240) | |
| Langenberg | Community Raschau marker Bach | the place was only created in the 17th century | |
| Unterscheibe and Markersbach ( Marckquartisspach ) | Community Raschau marker Bach | upper county of Hartenstein (until 1240) | was presumably on the bottom of the disappeared town of Newnhußen |
| Dittersdorf ( Ditterstorf ) | City of Loessnitz | lower county of Hartenstein (until 1240) | |
| Bernsbach ( Wernhardisspach ) | City of Lauter-Bernsbach | upper county of Hartenstein (until 1240) | |
| Mountain town of Zwönitz | City of Zwönitz | Reign of Stollberg (until 1286) | |
| Lenkersdorf (Grünhain part) | City of Zwönitz | lower county of Hartenstein (until 1312) | the other part remained after 1312 with the lower county of Hartenstein |
| Kühnhaide | City of Zwönitz | Reign of Stollberg (until 1286) | was probably on the bottom of the vanished town of Westervelt |
| Gu (e) nselsdorf (= Günsdorf ) (exclave) | City of Zwönitz | Reign of Stollberg (until 1286) | after 1843 to the Stollberg office |
| City of Elterlein with Brünlas and Burgstädtel | City of Elterlein | Upper County of Hartenstein (until 1559), then Crottendorf (until 1590) | |
| Hermannsdorf ( Hermersdorf ) | City of Elterlein | probably originally to the rule Pöhlberg | |
| Schwarzbach ( Swartzpach ) | City of Elterlein | upper county of Hartenstein (until 1240) | |
| Gablenz (exclave) | City of Stollberg / Erzgeb. | Reign of Stollberg (until 1286) | after 1843 to the Stollberg office |
| Kirchberg , origin (exclave) | Municipality Erlbach-Kirchberg | after 1843 belonged to the Stollberg office | |
| Leukersdorf (Gutsgemeinde), Seifersdorf , Pfaffenhain (exclave) | Community Jahnsdorf / Erzgeb. | after 1843 belonged to the Stollberg office | |
| Oberlungwitz Abbey (exclave) | City of Oberlungwitz | after 1764 to the Schönburg office of Remse | |
| Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. , Green Grove share (exclave) | City of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. | Reign of Wildenfels | belonged to the Stollberg office after 1843 , town since 1924 |
| Dörfel (Marienberg) (exclave) | City of Marienberg | belonged to the office of Wolkenstein after 1843 | |
| Grünau (exclave) | Langenweißbach municipality | Reign of Wildenfels (until 1401) | after 1843 to the office of Kirchberg |
| Zschocken (Grünhainischer portion) (exclave) | City of Hartenstein | Reign of Wildenfels | belonged to the Zwickau office after 1843 |
| Dörfel (Schlettau) | City of Schlettau | probably before 1590 to the mill office Annaberg | |
| City of Schlettau with Schlettau Castle | City of Schlettau | Office Schlettau , merged with the Office Grünhain after 1548 | |
| Walthersdorf | municipality Crottendorf | Office Schlettau , merged with the Office Grünhain in 1548 | |
| Cran number | community Sehmatal | Office Schlettau , merged with the Office Grünhain after 1548 | |
| Sehma | community Sehmatal | Office Schlettau , merged with the Office Grünhain in 1548 | |
| Bergstadt Buchholz | City of Annaberg-Buchholz | Office Schlettau , merged with the Office Grünhain in 1548 | Created at the end of the 15th century |
| Cunersdorf | City of Annaberg-Buchholz | Office Schlettau , merged with the Office Grünhain in 1548 | |
| Königswalde (official site) | Königswalde municipality | Office Schlettau , merged with the Office Grünhain in 1548 | |
| Bärenstein , Kühberg | Community Bärenstein | Office Schlettau , merged with the Office Grünhain in 1548 | Created around 1500 |
| Stahlberg | Community Bärenstein | Office Schlettau , merged with the Office Grünhain in 1548 | Founded in the 16th century by exiles |
literature
- Paul Reinhard Beierlein : The former Erzgebirgsamt Grünhain around 1700. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 1963.
- Adam-Ries-Bund (Hrsg.): Holzordnunge im Ambte Grünhain and Schlettau in the year 1560. Annaberg-Buchholz: Sources for local and family history issue 24
- Ernst Költzsch: The Grünhain office in the 16th century - a list of censors according to the official inheritance books. Kleve: AMF SR 012 series of publications, 1999.
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0
- Lothar Wendler: Castles in the Western Ore Mountains - on Mulde, Schwarzwasser and Zschopau , from the series "Our Home", Rockstroh's illustrated sheets on the history of the Western Ore Mountains, Mike Rokstroh printer and publisher, Aue 2004
- Leo Bönhoff : The original extent of the county of Hartenstein . In: NASG 27 (1906), pp. 209-278
- Grünhain office . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 3rd volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1816, pp. 600–602.
Web links
- Offices Directory Office Grünhain and the Office Schlettau in the historical gazetteer of Saxony.
- Amt Grünhain in the Repertorium Saxonicum
- Inventory 30011 - Grünhain office in the Chemnitz State Archives