Office Pretzsch
The Pretzsch office was a territorial administrative unit in the Kurkreis of the Electorate of Saxony, which was converted into a kingdom in 1806 .
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 area of the small office Pretzsch lay on both sides of the Elbe between Torgau in the southeast and Wittenberg in the northwest. The Wörblitz exclave was located south of the office on the Elbe. The Zörnigau exclave was north of the Elbe in the Wittenberg district office . The official area is now in the state of Saxony-Anhalt and belongs to the district of Wittenberg .
Adjacent administrative units
| Schweinitz Office | Schweinitz Office | |
| District Office Wittenberg |
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Office Annaburg (exclave) |
| Office Düben | Office Torgau and District Office Wittenberg (exclave) | Schweinitz Office |
history
The Pretzsch moated castle, dating from the 10th century, was under the rule of the Ascanian dukes of Saxony in 1313 . After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the office belonged to the Ernestine line of the Wettins . Since the defeat of the Ernestines in the Schmalkaldic War in 1547 ( Wittenberg surrender ), it has been under the rule of the Albertines .
Until 1689, the Pretzsch rule was granted, when it came into direct electoral possession. 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 Pretzsch office was assigned to the newly founded Wittenberg district in the Prussian province of Saxony .
Associated places
Around 1800, 3000 inhabitants lived in the Pretzsch district in one town and twelve villages.
- Cities
- Villages
- Vorwerke
Three outbuildings belonged to the office .
- Desolation
45 wild brands belonged to the office .
Bailiffs
- 1749–1758 Gottlob Adolph Renner
literature
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0
- Karlheinz Blaschke, (Ed.): Historical local directory of Saxony , Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-15-8
Web links
- Digital Historical Directory of Saxony - Office Directory - The Pretzsch Office in the Historical Directory of Saxony
- D 36 Pretzsch Office, 1545-1831 (inventory) - The Pretzsch Office on the homepage of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives