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The Mügeln office was a territorial administrative unit belonging to the Wurzen monastery of the Electorate of Saxony, which was converted into a kingdom in 1806 . After the abbey office in Wurzen was dissolved in 1818, the office of Mügeln, together with the office of Sornzig, was a sovereign office in the Leipzig district of the Kingdom 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 . The official seat was at Ruhethal Castle in Mügeln .

Geographical location

The Mügeln office was in the valley of the Döllnitz on the western edge of the Lommatzscher care . North of the city Mügeln starts already for office Mutzschen related wermsdorf forest , a forest area stretching to the Dahlen Heath covers.

Adjacent administrative units

The offices of Mügeln and Sornzig formed the southern part of the Wurzen monastery office , which was separated from the northern part of the office of Wurzen by the electoral office of Mutzschen .

Office Mutzschen Office Oschatz
Office of Grimma Neighboring communities Wurzen Abbey ( Amt Sornzig ) (exclave)
Wurzen Abbey ( Amt Sornzig ) Education Office Meißen Stiftsamt Meißen (exclave) Office Oschatz

history

Early history

Mügeln was first mentioned in a document in 984. At that time the area around the place was predominantly settled by Slavs . In 1063 Mügeln came into the possession of the Bishop of Meissen through a gift from the Empress Agnes . The donation takes into account the pen with 50 Hufen land, as well as all associated rights of use. The jurisdiction initially remained in imperial hands and only fell to the Bishop of Meissen about 200 years later through a documentary certification. The lords of Mügeln are recorded for the year 1161 , who presumably received the land around the Festenberg as a gift from the king in the 11th century. In 1259 Sifridus de Mogelin , who was the most influential and wealthy Prefect of Mügeln, died. During his reign he built the Festenberg with the castle and the Ursula chapel and founded the nunnery of the Benedictine order Marienthal in Sornzig in 1241 . Ruhethal Castle was built in 1261 .

The office of Mügeln under the rule of the Diocese of Meissen

On March 26, 1278 Albert, Count zu Brehna donated the jurisdiction over the city of Mügeln to the Bishop of Meißen. The bishops of Meißen had the city of Mügeln and the surrounding area administered by the Wurzen collegiate monastery founded by Bishop Herwig von Meißen in 1114 . It thus became part of a secular territorial rule under the sovereignty of the bishops of Meissen . After the division of the Wettin lands in 1485, the patronage of the Wurzen collegiate monastery and its possessions was jointly exercised by the Ernestines and Albertines . Both lines were ultimately out to secularization of the episcopal territory, which u. a. 1542 led to the so-called " Wurzener Feud ". In 1542 , Johann Friedrich took the Wurzen feud as an opportunity to intervene in the powers of the Wurzen Abbey in order to enforce the Reformation . In the 16th century the monastery and its possessions became Protestant.

The Mügeln office under the rule of the Wettin monastery government (1581-1818)

On October 20, 1581 the last bishop Johann IX thanked . von Haugwitz and converted to Protestantism. Thereafter, the Wurzener pin were the offices Mügeln, from the possessions Wurzen and Sornzig formed and fully into the since 1547 Albertine Kursachsen incorporated, although there are still as pin Official Wurzen to 1818 by a specially created "Electoral Saxon pin government" ( through the pin Meissen decreed captain, chancellor and councilors ) was administered on behalf of the Dresden court. The former bishop Johann IX. von Haugwitz lived in Mügeln until his death in 1595 and received the Ruhethal Castle , built around 1150, to which he gave this name, as well as the former Marienthal Monastery in Sornzig , as an annuity . A year later, in 1596, the Mügeln office came to the Saxon electors.

The area of ​​the Mügeln office after the dissolution of the Wettin monastery government in 1818

After the abbey office in Wurzen was dissolved in 1818, the offices of Mügeln, Wurzen and Sornzig became sovereign offices in the Leipzig district of the Kingdom of Saxony . The Mügeln office existed until 1856 and was then replaced by the Mügeln and Oschatz court offices .

Associated places

In 1827 the official area included a town, 44 villages and six farms with 11,000 inhabitants. After an administrative reform in 1836, the Mügeln office together with Sornzig comprised 55 villages.

city
Official Villages
  • Old boys
  • Beiersdorf
  • Berntitz
  • Crellenhain
  • Glosses (proportionately)
  • Jahna (exclave)
  • Lapwing (exclave)
  • Nebitzschen
  • Punch joke
  • Slot
  • Schleben (proportionately)
  • Braise (exclave)
  • Seelitz

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burkhardt: Die Wurzener Feud , in: Karl von Weber (ed.): Archive for the Saxon History, Volume 4, Issue 1, Leipzig 1865, pp. 57-81 Digitized of the entire edition (pdf, 14.4MB)

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