Leisnig Office

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The Leisnig office was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony in the Leipzig 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 location

The Leisnig office was in the south of the Leipzig district . It was on the lower reaches of the Freiberg Mulde . The official seat was permanently Mildenstein Castle in Leisnig . The districts of Leisnig in the west and Döbeln in the east were only connected by a narrow strip of land.

Adjacent administrative units

Adjacent offices are given while neglecting smaller exclaves of the offices. The Döbeln office was the eastern part of the Leisnig office since 1588 and is considered here as part of the office and is not mentioned separately.

Inheritance Grimma Exclaves: Office Colditz , inheritance Grimma Stiftsamt Wurzen ( Sornzig and Mügeln offices (exclaves))
Office Colditz Neighboring communities District office Meißen and exclaves various offices
Office Rochlitz Office of Nossen

history

Burgraviate of Leisnig

Leisnig Castle ( Mildenstein Castle ) was first found in 1046 as part of the Burgward organization in the German trademark area in the deed of gift of Burgwarde Colditz , Rochlitz and Leisnig by Emperor Heinrich III. to mention his consort Agnes of Poitou . In 1084, the following Emperor Heinrich IV. Awarded the castle to his servant Wiprecht von Groitzsch, who was established in the old settlement area . When Wiprecht's granddaughter Mathilde (Mechthild) married Rapoto von Abenberg , Mildenstein Castle came to this Franconian count in 1143. He sold it to Duke Friedrich III in 1148. von Swabia, the later Emperor Friedrich I (Barbarossa) , who converted it into an imperial estate in 1158 . Since then it has been a rulership center of the Pleißenland . Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa gave the castle and its accessories as a fief to the Burgraves of Leisnig . At times they were among the most powerful rulers in the Muldenland, but in the 14th century they were subject to the aspiring Margraves of Meissen , who conquered the castle in 1365 and forced the rebellious burgraves to sell their burgraviate.

Leisnig Office

The Burgraviate of Leisnig thus became a margravial office in 1365. Since the division of Leipzig in 1485, the office belonged to the Ernestine line of the Wettins . After in 1525 the Reformation was introduced in the field, the office was enlarged through the territory of the dissolved Cistercian - monastery book .

After the defeat of the Ernestines in the Schmalkaldic War in 1547, the office came into the possession of the Albertines . The Albertine office of Döbeln since 1485 was largely integrated into the Leisnig office in 1588. The Leisnig office existed until 1856. a. the Leisnig and Döbeln court offices . 1836 were as enclaves of the Office Leisnig (Döbelner District) in the Office Nossen villages lying domination Arnsdorf integrated by Umbezirkung in the Office Nossen.

Components

While the western part of the official Leisnig consists almost entirely of official villages, the eastern part of Döbeln has many borrowed places.

Leisnig district

Cities
Official Villages
Official villages (exclaves)
Lent places
Manors and farms

Office part Döbeln

Cities
Official Villages
Lent places
Lent locations (exclaves)
Manors and farms

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Burggrafschaft Leisnig in the description by Manfred Hiebl
  2. ↑ Codex Saxonius, p. 929, section X