Office Lichtenwalde

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The Lichtenwalde office was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony .

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 area of ​​the Lichtenwalde district was located northeast of the city of Chemnitz in what is now the Central Saxony district . The Zschopau flowed through it.

Adjacent administrative units

Schoenburg dominions of Wechselburg and Penig Territory of the reign of Neusorge , from 1610 belonged to the Augustusburg office
Office Rochlitz (exclave) Neighboring communities Office Frankenberg-Sachsenburg
Chemnitz Office Office of Augustusburg

history

Around 1230 the weir system "Burg Lichtenwalde" was built on the left bank of the Zschopau as a bulwark against the imperial directors Mildenstein and Schellenberg , which bordered to the north and east .

The area of ​​the Lichtenwalde district existed as territory since the 13th century. Around 1280 a knight Heidenreich is mentioned as feudal lord. In 1290 the Bohemian king Wenceslaus II bought the castle. From 1341 it was lent to the Burgraves of Meißen , who later installed the von Honsberg family as vassals in Lichtenwalde. In 1439 Apel von Vitzthum and Conrad von Stein exchanged their possessions with those of Honsberg and thus became the new owners of the castle and dominion, but lost them again in the course of the Saxon Fratricidal War in 1447.

From 1447 the von Harras family are the new owners of Lichtenwalde Castle. Since the division of Leipzig in 1485, the rule and the castle belonged to the Albertine line of the Wettins . Eustachius von Harras , the last owner of the von Harras family, died in 1561 without a male heir, whereupon the rule of Lichtenwalde fell to the Elector of Saxony and was transformed into the lordly "Amt Lichtenwalde". 1694, the family acquired from Bünau the Castle Lichtenwalde in exchange Pillnitz near Dresden, which Elector Johann Georg IV. His mistress Magdalena Sibylla of Neitschütz wanted to give. The Lichtenwalde office became a manorial estate again and was administered as such from 1696 as part of the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg office, which was united in 1633 . In 1719 Jakob Heinrich Graf von Flemming bought the indebted property of the von Bünau at auction and sold it in 1722 to Christoph Heinrich Reichsgraf von Watzdorf († 1729), who had the remains of the old castle and the Harrasschen Castle demolished and built a large baroque castle in its place . When his son Friedrich Carl von Watzdorf died without heirs, Lichtenwalde Palace came into the possession of his widow, Henriette Sophia, née Countess Vitzthum von Eckstädt, in 1764. From 1783, the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg office was combined with the Chemnitz office under a judicial officer while maintaining the greatest possible independence . The administration of the Lichtenwalde office was transferred to the Augustusburg office . The Frankenberg-Sachsenburg office was still responsible for some areas. The judicial authority of the Lichtenwalde district existed until 1855.

Associated places

Castles
Villages

The places Nieder-Garnsdorf and Auerswalde (Rochlitz share) belonged to the Rochlitz office as exclaves until 1832 .

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