Office Pegau

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The Pegau office was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony in the Leipzig district . Between 1657 and 1718 the Office for Albertine belonged Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Zeitz .

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 office was largely in the area of ​​today's federal states of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt . The administrative seat was the city ​​of Pegau .

Geographical location

The office was in the west of the Leipziger Kreis, southwest of the city of Leipzig . It was traversed by the White Elster and on the eastern edge of the Pleiße . The office was largely in the area of ​​today's Free State of Saxony (west of the Leipzig district ) and to a small extent in the state of Saxony-Anhalt (four exclaves and a small strip in the west). The administrative seat was the city ​​of Pegau . Due to the lignite mining in the 20th century (including the Espenhain , Peres and Profen opencast mines ), some of the official sites no longer exist today.

Adjacent administrative units

The specification of neighboring dominions is done neglecting the exclaves of the offices.

Saxony-Merseburg ( Office Lützen ) District Office Leipzig
Weissenfels Office Neighboring communities Office Borna
Saxony-Zeitz ( Zeitz Office ) Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg Office Borna

history

The area of ​​the Groitzsch care came into the possession of the Margrave of Meissen in 1210 . The Pegau office arose in 1460 from the Groitzsch care group, which was merged with the Pegau escort office in the Margraves of Meissn . Since the division of Leipzig in 1485, the office belonged to the Albertine line of the Wettins .

After the ravages of the Thirty Years' War , in which the Imperial under Heinrich Holk and the Swedes under Lennart Torstensson city and department Pegau three times - in 1633, 1637 and 1644 - devastated, the Elector of Saxony joined Johann Georg II. With his younger brother, Duke Moritz von Sachsen-Zeitz, signed a repurchase contract on April 18, 1662 in Dresden for the city and office of Pegau. The reason was the urgent need for money of the elector, after this due to the death of Emperor Ferdinand III. had started the imperial vicariate . The elector pledged Moritz, his heirs and descendants, the town and office of Pegau along with accessories, with the reservation of the high reserves that the elector also had in his brother's other portions of the country according to the settlement of April 11, 1657. Moritz was supposed to pay 77,265 guilders for this within ten years. Before this period had expired, on August 2, 1666, Elector Johann Georg II. And Duke Moritz closed a recess in Meißen in which both of them canceled the repurchase from 1662. Since the administrative area of ​​Pegau was near the Naumburg Abbey , the Elector inherited Pegau to his brother and his descendants. It also fell to the Sachsen-Zeitz secondary school . The dukes helped the city and region to flourish again and used it primarily as a summer residence - so they also had Pegau Castle expanded. Duke Moritz Wilhelm , son of the previous one, then gave office and town along with other localities in 1669 as apanage to his brother Friedrich Heinrich , who was able to exercise sovereign rights in this area and dispose of the income, but never sovereignly from the Zeitz main line or the electorate could be. After his son transferred to the clergy in 1718 and the Zeitz main line had also died out, Pegau fell back to Electoral Saxony that same year .

The office was divided by the treaties of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The greater part with the official city of Pegau remained with the Kingdom of Saxony , the remaining part went to the newly formed Prussian province of Saxony . In 1819 the Pegau office became part of the eastern part of the Lützen office that had remained with the Kingdom of Saxony . H. the former office of Zwenkau , affiliated.

Until 1827 the justice office in Pegau was co-administered by the justice office Borna . After the dissolution of the patrimonial jurisdiction in 1865, the tasks were transferred to the judicial offices of Pegau and Zwenkau .

Components

In 1827 the office had 13,400 inhabitants.

Cities
Villages

In 1827 60 villages belonged to the office, including u. a.

Villages that came to Prussia in 1815
Villages (exclaves)
Manors and farms

In 1827, 27 manors and three farms belonged to the office.

Locations of the Lützen office that came to the Pegau office after 1815

literature

  • Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas 1790 . Gumnior, 2009. ISBN 3937386149
  • Alexander Gündel: State administration and finance in the care of Groitzsch-Pegau from the middle of the 14th to the middle of the 16th century Leipzig 1911
  • Johann Christian Crell : The officials and administrators now living in Chursachsen . Leipzig 1722.
  • Tylo Peter: Vögte Schösser Amtmänner - Territorial administration in the Bornaer Land . Borna 2009
  • Leo Bönhoff : The oldest offices of the Mark Meissen . In: New Archive for Saxon History . tape 38 , 1917, p. 17–45 ( digitized version ).
  • Office Pegau . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 8th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1821, pp. 143–152.
  • Office Pegau . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 18th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1833, p. 445 f.

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