Querfurt Office
The Querfurt office was an administrative unit in the Thuringian district of the Electorate of Saxony, which was converted into a kingdom in 1806 . Between 1657 and 1746 the office belonged to the Albertine secondary school principality of Saxony-Weißenfels .
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 location
The Querfurt office extended to the north of the Thuringian Basin . The main seat of the office was the former residence of the noble lords of Querfurt, Querfurt .
history
The office of Querfurt was Magdeburg from 1496 to 1635 after the noble lords of Querfurt had died out, before it came to the Electorate of Saxony under Elector Johann Georg I.
From 1657 to 1746 the Office Querfurt for Albertine belonged Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Weissenfels , which is from 1686 in terms of the economy and the Principality of Justice Sachsen-Querfurt shelter.
The Querfurt office was one of those areas that the Kingdom of Saxony , which existed from 1806, had to cede completely to the Kingdom of Prussia after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 . In the resulting Prussian province of Saxony , the Querfurt office (since around 1784 subdivided into Rent and Justice Office) was finally dissolved in 1821, whereby the judicial officer had already co-administered the Sittichenbach office . The tasks of the Querfurt Office were transferred to the Querfurt District Office, which was newly formed in 1816.
Components
Patrimonial courts
- Farnstädt
- Gatterstädt
- Leimbach
- Lodersleben
- Obhausen , Johannis
- Obhausen, Nicolai
- Obhausen, Petri
- Weidenthal
Cartographic representations
- Peter Schenk the Younger : Accurate geographical delineation of Graffschaff Mannsfelt in both Saxon: as brandenb. Your Highness together with the offices of Sangerhausen, Querfurth, Sittichenbach, Allstædt and other neighboring areas , 1760
literature
- K. Krumhaar: The Counts of Mansfeld and their possessions , Eisleben 1872, p. 115
- A. Hopfer: Saxony and Anhalt, Volume 1, 1925, p. 322.
- Hanns Gringmuth-Dallmer , Berent Schwineköper , Manfred Kobuch : Complete overview of the holdings of the State Main Archives Magdeburg , Vol. IV, Halle (Saale), 1960, pp. 109–111
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 34 f.