Office Annaburg
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The Office Annaburg was an administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony , which was converted into a kingdom in 1806, and was affiliated to the Kurkreis .
Until it was ceded to Prussia in 1815, as a Saxon office it formed the spatial reference point for the collection of sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , jurisdiction and military service .
Geographical expansion
The Annaburger Heide occupied the central part of the Office of Annaburg . While the official seat of Annaburg was in the northwest of the office, most of the places belonging to the office were on the eastern edge or on the southwest edge of the official area. The Black Elster touched the territory in the northeast. In the southwest the Elbe formed the border of the office. The largest part of the administrative area with the city of Annaburg and the Annaburger Heide is now in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . The eastern edge with the official villages today belongs to the state of Brandenburg . The places on the southern edge of the Elbe north of Torgau are now in the Free State of Saxony (around Rosenfeld and Döhlen).
Adjacent administrative units
The Annaburg office bordered the Liebenwerda and Schweinitz offices to the east, the Mühlberg , Schweinitz and Torgau offices to the south , and was almost completely surrounded by the Schweinitz office to the west and north; only a small part bordered the Torgau office near Döhlen.
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history
The Lochau office
The office of Lochau was part of the Ascanian Duchy of Saxony-Wittenberg and came with this to the Wettins in 1423 . Here it became part of the Kurkreis , whose seat was Wittenberg .
After Leipzig was divided in 1485, the office, like the entire Duchy of Saxony-Wittenberg, belonged to the Ernestine line of the Wettins . Since the defeat of the Ernestines in the Schmalkaldic War in 1547 ( Wittenberg surrender ), it was owned by the Albertines . On the orders of Elector Moritz von Sachsen, an inheritance book of the Lochau office was created for the first time in 1550.
The Office of Annaburg
The name of the office Annaburg was Amt Lochau until 1572 . It was only after the village of Lochau was renamed Annaburg when the hunting lodge was rebuilt after Anna of Denmark and Norway (1532–1585) , wife of Elector August of Saxony , that the office was renamed in 1573.
Until it was taken over by the Kingdom of Prussia, Annaburg was the seat of a forest and gamekeeping department, which looked after the offices of Annaburg, Schlieben , Schweinitz and Seyda and, from 1796, also the offices of Dahme and Jüterbog of the Principality of Querfurt in forestry and hunting matters.
As a result of the defeat of the Kingdom of Saxony , the Congress of Vienna in 1815 decided to assign territories to the Kingdom of Prussia . a. concerned the entire Kurkreis with its offices. The office of Annaburg was divided into the newly formed districts of the Prussian province of Saxony as follows: the city of Annaburg with the Annaburg Heath and the southwestern towns on the Elbe were incorporated into the Torgau district. The places in the east of the office came to the Schweinitz district .
Components
Cities
- Annaburg (until 1572 Lochau)
Official Villages
- Arnsnesta
- Beyern
- Buckau (until 1680)
- Döbrichau (until 1660)
- Fermerswalde (only one Vorwerk in the 16th century)
- Frauenhorst
- Kähnitzsch (a small part of the population was subordinate to the Schweinitz office )
- Lebien (a small part of the population was subordinate to the Schweinitz office)
- Löhsten (until 1659, then Schweinitz office)
- Mahdel
- New blowers
- Purzien
- Rahnisdorf (until 1680)
- Rose field
- Züllsdorf
Manors
- Rahnisdorf with Buckau
Vorwerke
- Annaburg
- Döhlen (de facto however to the Prettin office )
Other
- some residents in different places of the offices Schweinitz and Liebenwerda
- some residents in the village of Zeckritz (Amt Torgau)
- the forest district of Zschernick
Watermills in office
- Annaburg am Neugraben
- Elstermühle Arnsnesta
- Gerbismühle am Neugraben
- Elstermühle Grochwitz (the place was in the Schweinitz office) on the Black Elster
- Elstermühle Löben (the place was in the Schweinitz office) on the Black Elster
- Heidemühle Zschernick
Windmills in office
- Beyern
- Dobrichau
- Rahnisdorf
- Rose field
- Züllsdorf
Governors
swell
When the older documents and files of the Annaburg Office were relocated to Wittenberg during the Thirty Years' War due to the feared fire hazard , a fire destroyed all documents there in 1644.
Ernestine General Archive Weimar: Holdings Bb: Office Annaburg (since 15th century)
literature
- Karlheinz Blaschke & Uwe Ulrich Jäschke: Kursächsischer Ämteratlas 1790 , Verlag Klaus Gumnior Chemnitz 2009. ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0
- Office Annaburg . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 1st volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1814, pp. 141–144.
Web links
- D 1 Office Annaburg, 1530-1820 - The Office Annaburg on the homepage of the State Archives Saxony-Anhalt
- Digitized version of the Annaburg Office's inheritance book with entries from 1550 to 1745