Office Lauchstädt

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Offices in Lauchstädt, Merseburg, Schkeuditz and Lützen, around 1740
Amtshof Lauchstädt

The Lauchstädt Office was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony that belonged to the Merseburg Monastery and, between 1656/57 and 1738, to the Secondogeniture Principality of Saxony-Merseburg . Until it was ceded to Prussia in 1815, it was the spatial reference point for claiming sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , jurisdiction and military service .

Geographical location

The Lauchstädt office was in the Leipzig lowland bay southwest of Halle (Saale) . It was bounded by the Saale in the east and flowed through by its tributary Laucha . The Mansfelder Land bordered in the north-west, today the Geiseltalsee lies in the south . Two exclaves belonged to the official area. This was, on the one hand, Netzschkau in the Merseburg office of the high estates of Merseburg and the towns of Cösseln, Werderthau (partially) and Möst, which belong to the Cösseln manor on Petersberg northeast of Halle. The manor district of Cösseln was separated from the Anhalt principalities in the north by the Fuhne .

The area of ​​the office is today up to the corridor of Passendorf (to Halle (Saale) ) in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

Adjacent administrative units

The Netzschkau exclave was entirely in the Merseburg office. The exclave of the manor Cösseln on Petersberg north-east of Halle bordered the principalities of Anhalt in the north , the east, south and west of the manor Ostrau belonging to the Electoral Saxon office of Delitzsch , and in the south-east to the Electoral Saxon office of Zörbig , whose administrative place Hinsdorf was almost completely covered by the manor district of Cösseln was enclosed.

history

In a register of the tithe of the Hersfeld monastery , which was created between 881 and 899, Lauchstädt is mentioned for the first time twice as a tithe place Lochstat im Friesenfeld . Lauchstädt belonged to the Goseck family of the Count Palatine of Saxony . After their extinction in 1179, the Palatinate County of Saxony with Lauchstädt was awarded to the Ludowinger family by Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa . After the death of the last Ludowinger in 1247, the place came to the Margraves of Meißen from the House of Wettin . Margrave Friedrich der Freidige (* 1257, † 1323) pledged Lauchstädt in 1291 in connection with the Mark Landsberg to the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg . After the Brandenburg Ascanians died out in 1319, Lauchstädt and Lauchstädt Castle, first mentioned in 1341, fell as a fief to the Dukes of Braunschweig .

From their dispute with the Wettins, the archbishops of Magdeburg emerged victorious over the overlordship over Lauchstädt. Due to a later pledge from 1370, Lauchstädt came into the possession of the Merseburg diocese in 1444 . The bishops of Merseburg awarded the place Lauchstädt in 1430 the town charter and formed from the area around Lauchstaedt the "Office Lauchstaedt". The episcopal office of Lauchstädt, as part of the diocese of Merseburg, was subordinate to the Albertine Duchy of Saxony's claim to suzerainty when Leipzig was partitioned in 1485 . Between 1528 and 1536 the Bishop of Merseburg arranged for the castle to be converted into a residential palace in the Renaissance style . Under the Merseburg bishop Sigismund von Lindenau , the Reformation was introduced in the town and office of Lauchstädt in 1543 .

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. Since 1657, the Lauchstädt office belonged to the Wettin secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg . The manor Cösseln am Petersberg northeast of Halle was also included in the official territory. This territorially widely separated area belonged to the Lauchstädt office as a collegiate fiefdom, but was owned by the Ostrau manor , which had been under the administration of the Delitzsch administrative office since 1485 . Duke Christian I of Sachsen-Merseburg (* 1615; † 1691) ceded the office of Lauchstädt with the town and castle of Lauchstädt including accessories as appanage to care for his fifth son Philipp (* 1657; † 1690) in 1684 . This made Lauchstädt a residential city. The Sachsen-Merseburg-Lauchstädt sideline fell back to Sachsen-Merseburg with the death of Philip in 1691. When the Saxony-Merseburg branch line died out in 1738, the entire principality with the Lauchstädt office returned to the Electorate of Saxony. With the appointment of the Electorate of Saxony to the Kingdom of Saxony , the Lauchstädt office has belonged to this since 1806.

After the defeat of Napoleon and the allied Kingdom of Saxony, the latter 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 Lauchstädt was doing the Prussian province of Saxony ( district Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg attached).

Associated places

Cities
Villages
  • Mittel- Teutschenthal (share of the currency)
  • Ober-Teutschenthal (Electoral Saxon share)
  • Unter-Teutschenthal (elective share)
Villages (exclaves)
Manors
  • Rittergut Cösseln (on the Petersberg, highly esteemed Merseburg fiefdom)
  • Schafstädt manor

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reg. Thur. No. 287
  2. ↑ History of Lauchstädt Castle ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geiseltal-tourismus.jimdo.com
  3. ↑ The manor Cösseln and its places in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 691
  4. ^ The Ostrau estate archive in the Saxony-Anhalt state archive