Office Oberwiederstedt

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The office of Oberwiederstedt was an administrative unit of the part of the county of Mansfeld that fell to the electorate (from 1806 kingdom) Saxony in the 16th century . It existed from 1547 until the office was dissolved in 1815 or until the patrimonial jurisdiction was finally abolished in 1849.

history

In 948 Otto I. gave the Magdeburg St. Moritz Monastery the possessions acquired at the time by swap with the Hersfeld Monastery in Wiederstedt , on the eastern edge of the Harz Mountains . Shortly after Wiederstedt was at the foundation of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg the Bishopric of Halberstadt left.

The Dominican convent, founded in 1261 by Walther von Arnstein and his mother Mechthild on the Kupferberg near the mountain town of Hettstedt , was relocated to Wiederstedt. The bailiff's rights over this monastery were acquired by the Counts of Mansfeld. After the Reformation and the secularization of the monastery, Count Albrecht von Mansfeld took over the monastery in 1547. From this he formed the office of Wiederstedt, which, in contrast to the lower part of the village in Anhalt, soon received the name Oberwiederstedt.

During the sequestration in 1570/73 Oberwiederstedt was placed under the administration of the Electorate of Saxony as part of the Mansfeld-Vorderort county. The most famous feudal bearers of the office of Wiederstedt were the representatives of the Lower Saxon noble family von Hardenberg, who had their own line named after Wiederstedt, from which the early Romantic poet Friedrich von Hardenberg, called Novalis (1772-1801), emerged.

After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Oberwiederstedt office fell completely to the Kingdom of Prussia and became part of the newly formed Duchy of Saxony with Merseburg as the new seat of government. The Prussian province of Saxony emerged from the duke in 1816 , to whose administrative district Merseburg the former district of Oberwiederstedt belonged from then on.

Places of the office Oberwiederstedt

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literature

  • Manfred Kobuch, Anni Scheibner: Directory of the offices, the patrimonial and the city courts of the areas united in the later Prussian province of Saxony around 1800 , Halle (Saale) 1961, p. 16.
  • Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Kobuch, Anni Scheibner: Directory of the offices, the patrimonial and city courts of the areas united in the later Prussian province of Saxony around 1800 , Halle (Saale) 1961, p. 16.