Office Rosenburg
The Amt Rosenburg , also Herrschaft Rosenburg , was a territorial administrative unit of the immediate imperial county Barby since 1497 under the suzerainty of the Archbishopric Magdeburg . After the division of the county in 1659 it did not fall to the Electorate of Saxony like Barby , but came to the Duchy of Magdeburg due to the feudal sovereignty . Later it fell to Prussia .
Geographical location
The six locations of the Rosenburg Office are located on a loop of the river Saale , immediately before its confluence with the Elbe . Both rivers bounded the official area to the northeast and northwest. The main area of County Barby was north of the office on the other bank of the Saale. The places of the office today belong to the city of Barby except for Dornbock . Larger towns in the area are Calbe (Saale) (approx. 10 km) and Aken (Elbe) (approx. 13 km).
Adjacent administrative units
The information relates to the rule or the Amt Rosenburg after the division of the County of Barby in 1659.
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| Duchy of Magdeburg (later: Kingdom of Prussia ) (wooden circle; Calbe (Saale) ) | Principality of Anhalt | Duchy of Magdeburg (later: Kingdom of Prussia ) (wooden circle, Aken (Elbe) ) |
history
Beginnings of the Rosenburg office
Rosenburg was already mentioned in 839 . There was probably a Slavic settlement there. The oldest contemporary witness is now the Rosenburg castle ruins . The first written mention of the place comes from the year 965, when Emperor Otto I donated the royal court "Rosburg" to the Moritzkloster zu Magdeburg ( Archbishopric Magdeburg ). As a fiefdom it came from 1136-1270 to the Counts of Querfurt and around 1300 as an after-fief to the Counts of Barby from the house of the Counts of Arnstein and thus became part of the County of Barby .
Belonging to County Barby
The rule of Barby was raised by the Roman-German King Maximilian I in 1497 to an imperial county . After receipt of this imperial estate shaft , the owner called the county "Counts of Barby and Mühlingen" and sat on the diets on the Westphalian bank.
Under Count Wolfgang I, the Reformation was introduced in the county in 1540 . In the following years the county was divided several times among the descendants. Ultimately, however, there was only one male heir, Count August Ludwig (born 1639).
Division of County Barby
On October 17, 1659, August Ludwig, the last of the Counts of Barby , died at the age of 20 without an heir. On the basis of family relationships, some rulers at that time derived their (legal) claims (entitlement) to the settled County of Barby, a legal conception that was quite common at the time. August von Sachsen-Weißenfels , who was also the administrator of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg , secured the entitlement for the Saxon part (Barby and Walternienburg) from the Saxon Elector Johann Georg I in 1652 and from the Magdeburg Cathedral Chapter for the Magdeburg part (Rosenburg ) the county. Despite these measures, after the Earls of Barby died out in 1659, it was divided. The offices of Walternienburg in the east and Mühlingen in the west went to the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst to satisfy older entitlements , with the office of Walternienburg remaining a fiefdom of the Electorate of Saxony . The offices of Barby and Rosenburg fell to the Albertine secondary school principality under Duke August von Sachsen-Weißenfels .
Belonging to the Archbishopric of Magdeburg
After the Amt Rosenburg had fallen to the same as an earlier fiefdom of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg in 1659 when the Counts of Barby died out and August von Sachsen-Weißenfels in his capacity as administrator of the Archbishopric not only took possession of this area, but also took it through the cathedral chapter had claimed hereditary fiefdom for himself and in 1661 for his sons as well , both Kurbrandenburg and Electorate of Saxony raised objections, since the entire archbishopric, including all fiefdoms that had fallen away, should have fallen to Brandenburg according to the provisions of the Peace of Westphalia and the Saxon elector as a took up the completed fiefdom and tried to take possession of it for himself in the name of Emperor Leopold I.
Electoral Saxony finally agreed to Duke August's plans in 1666, as it was hoping that Rosenburg would come into possession of the property after the Weißenfels line had died out, but Rosenburg sold the object in dispute on March 3, 1679 for 16,000 thalers to Hans Adam von Ende , the court master of his second wife and Johann Adolf's stepmother Johanna Walpurgis von Leiningen-Westerburg .
Johann Adolf, who saw his inheritance threatened by his father's actions, protested but was intimidated by his father. After the death of August 1680, however, Johann Adolf turned to Brandenburg in order to obtain a declaration of invalidity of the purchase contract and also filed a proper complaint with the government in Halle . When Hans Adam saw from the end that his case was unstable, he sold the Rosenburg rulership in April 1681 for 60,000 thalers to the then electoral prince Friedrich von Brandenburg while the lawsuit was ongoing . The process was dragged out further and further on the part of Brandenburg and finally fizzled out. Duke Johann Adolf was left behind. Finally, in 1687, Johann Adolf decided to sell the Burg office , which had also split off from the ore monastery of Magdeburg to Sachsen-Weißenfels , to Brandenburg, which enabled him not only to free himself from the Brandenburg sovereignty over Sachsen-Querfurt , but also the He was able to redeem the town of Weißenfels pledged by his father to finance his sumptuous court holding to his cousin Christian von Sachsen-Merseburg and to repay other accumulated debts.
The former capital of the county, the city of Barby itself, was not obliged to the archbishopric, but had the Elector of Saxony as overlord. In the will of Johann Georg von Kursachsen , which provided for the creation of a secondary school at the time , it was stipulated that the entitlement to Barby would be part of the inheritance of the Weißenfels line. Barby, who fell at the same time as Rosenburg, was assigned to Johann Adolf's younger brother Heinrich as apanage .
Belonging to the rulership of Rosenburg after 1680
After the death of its last administrator, Duke August von Sachsen-Weißenfels in 1680, the Archbishopric of Magdeburg was secularized following the agreements made in the Peace of Westphalia and transferred to the House of Brandenburg . The rulership of Rosenburg was assigned to the 1st district of the Holzkreis .
The end of the Duchy of Magdeburg was initiated by Napoleon Bonaparte . He assigned the area west of the Elbe , to which the rule Rosenburg also belonged, to the kingdom of Westphalia of his brother Jérôme . The wooden circle was dissolved. The former rule Rosenburg now belonged to the Magdeburg district in the department of the Elbe . After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the area became Prussian again. The places of the former rulership of Rosenburg were assigned to the district of Calbe a./S. assigned in the province of Saxony .
Associated places
- Villages
Web links
- The history of Rosenburg Castle on the homepage of the tourism project "Grafschaft Barby"
- County Barby and its parts in the Duncker digital collection
- The County of Barby with its parts on Weißenfels 1745
- History of the rulership of Rosenburg on the Blue Ribbon homepage ""