Office Oschatz
The Amt Oschatz was a territorial administrative unit belonging to the Meißnian district of the Electorate of Saxony, which was converted into a kingdom in 1806 .
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 Oschatz office was west of the Elbe , south of the Dahlener Heide and east of the Wermsdorf Forest . The rivers Döllnitz , Dahle and Luppa flowed through the office .
Adjacent administrative units
The information relates to the core area of the office, neglecting exclaves.
| Wurzen Abbey ( Amt Wurzen ) | Office Torgau | Mühlberg Office |
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history
Early history
The city of Oschatz was first mentioned in 1238 from a document from Margrave Heinrich III. from Meissen . In 1344, the vigilante group Die Geharnischten was first mentioned by the city association of Oschatz, Torgau and Grimma . A "vesting" was first mentioned in Oschatz in 1377. In 1394 the town was granted market rights .
The Oschatz Office
The Oschatz office had been in the possession of the Margrave of Meißen since the 12th century and was ecclesiastically dependent on the Naumburg bishopric . Between 1366 and 1382 the area was pledged to the Meissen bishopric . Around 1445 the area was called “Pflege Oschatz”. The area of the Vogtei Strehla to the north was affiliated to the Oschatz office in the 15th century. The owners of the Castle Strehla were the since 1064 the bishops of Naumburg . In 1384 the castle came to the Lords of Pflugk as a fief and remained in the possession of the Pflugk family even after the surrounding area was incorporated into the Oschatz district.
After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the maintenance belonged to the Albertine line of the Wettins . In 1550 the Office Oschatz was established, which was territorially expanded by the dissolution of the Office Döbeln in 1558 by adding some places. After the defeat of the Kingdom of Saxony , allied with Napoleon , in 1815 the Congress of Vienna decided to cede the Kingdom of Saxony to the Kingdom of Prussia , which also affected a part of the north of the Oschatz Office. In 1816, an exclave of the Torgau office, which had been ceded to Prussia, came to office with the places Dornreichenbach, Heyda (near Böhlen), Meltewitz and Stolpen. Through an exchange of territory with the Kingdom of Prussia in 1818, the places around Cavertitz, which were again annexed to the Kingdom of Saxony, were added by the former Mühlberg office .
Until 1835 the Oschatz office belonged to the Meißnischer Kreis , then it was assigned to the Leipziger Kreis . The Oschatz office existed until the end of the Saxon constitution of offices in 1856. The Oschatz court office became its successor.
Associated places
In 1827 the office comprised three cities, a market town and 138 villages with 21,218 inhabitants.
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- Dornreichenbach
- Heyda
- Meltewitz
- Stumble
Officials
literature
- Leo Bönhoff : The oldest offices of the Mark Meissen . In: New Archive for Saxon History . tape 38 , 1917, p. 17–45 ( digitized version ).
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 .
- Karlheinz Blaschke (Hrsg.): Historical place directory of Saxony. Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-15-8 . ( Digitized version )
- Carl Samuel Hoffmann: Historical description of the city, the office and the Dioeces Oschatz in ancient and modern times . multi-volume work, Oldecop, Oschatz 1815ff. ( Digitized version )
Web links
- Office Oschatz in the Saxon Main State Archives
- The Oschatz Office in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony