Office Lützen
The Office Lutzen was the Bishopric of Merseburg and between 1656/57 and 1738 for Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Merseburg corresponding territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony . Until it was partially ceded to Prussia in 1815, it was the spatial reference point for claiming sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , judiciary and military service .
Geographical location
The office of Lützen was in the Leipzig lowland bay . It was bordered by the Saale in the west and the Weißer Elster in the east. Other waters in the office were the Elsterfloßgraben and the Zschampert . Some western districts of today's city of Leipzig belonged to the Lützen office as exclaves. The area of Saxony-Merseburg thus extended right up to the city limits of Leipzig. The customs place was today's district of Lindenau . Due to the lignite mining, the places Bösdorf, Eythra and Zeschwitz with the forest Die Harth in the east ( Zwenkau opencast mine ) and the Mödnitz exclave in the south ( Profen opencast mine ) no longer exist today.
The area of the office is now partly in the federal states of Saxony-Anhalt (districts Saalekreis and Burgenlandkreis ) and in Saxony (city and district of Leipzig ).
Adjacent administrative units
| Office Merseburg (Saxony-Merseburg) | Office Schkeuditz (Saxony-Merseburg) | |
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District Office Leipzig (Electorate of Saxony) | |
| Weißenfels Office (Electorate of Saxony) | Office Pegau (Electorate of Saxony) |
history
The office of Lützen had been an episcopal office of the Merseburg bishopric since the 13th century . After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the office was counted under the influence of the Albertine line of the Wettins . As a result of the secularization of the Merseburg diocese, the diocese and its offices came to the Electorate of Saxony in 1547 and became a neighboring country in 1561 .
In 1632 Lützen was the scene of the Battle of Lützen , one of the main battles of the Thirty Years War . The Swedish King Gustav II Adolf fell in this battle.
The Merseburg office in Zwenkau became part of the Lützen office in 1655. To him belong u. a. the city of Zwenkau and part of Zeschwitz. Between 1657 and 1738 the office of Lützen belonged to the Wettin secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg .
After the defeat of Napoleon and the allied Kingdom of Saxony , the Kingdom of Saxony had to cede a large part of its territory to the Kingdom of Prussia following a resolution by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 . The office Lützen was divided. The larger western part was incorporated into the Prussian province of Saxony ( Merseburg district ), the smaller eastern part came to the Saxon district office of Leipzig . The Office Zwenkau remained as the eastern part in Saxony and was in 1819 the Office Pegau affiliated.
Associated places
Places in what is now the Free State of Saxony
Cities that remained with Saxony in 1815
- Markranstädt
- Zwenkau with the suburb of Berg
Villages that remained with Saxony in 1815
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Another property that remained with Saxony in 1815
- Forest district Die Harth (exclave)
Villages ceded to Prussia in 1815
Places in today's state of Saxony-Anhalt
Cities ceded to Prussia in 1815
Villages ceded to Prussia in 1815
Officials
literature
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Jäschke: Kursächsischer Amtatlas 1790 . Gumnior, 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 84f.
- Karlheinz Blaschke, (Ed.): Historical local directory of Saxony , Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-15-8
Web links
- - Office Lützen in the Saxon Main State Archives
- The offices of Lützen and Zwenkau in the digital historical directory of Saxony
- The Office Lützen in the State Archive of Saxony-Anhalt (PDF; 131 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zwenkau in the book Geography for all stands , p. 684 in the Google book search