Office Saaleck

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The Saaleck office was a territorial administrative unit belonging to the Naumburg-Zeitz bishopric . In 1544 it became part of the Naumburg office and belonged to the Electorate of Saxony since 1564 .

Geographical location

The Saaleck office was on both sides of the Saale, southwest of Naumburg , near the mouth of the Ilm . Adjacent administrative units were in the north the Wettin office of Eckartsberga and the area of the Pforta monastery (later Pforta school office ), in the east the area of ​​the Rudelsburg under Wettin sovereignty, in the south the Wettin office of Camburg and in the west an exclave of the Tautenburg rule and the Wettin office of Pforta . The exclaves were Punschrau in the north and Lachstedt in the south. The official area is now mostly in the state of Saxony-Anhalt and includes some southwestern districts of Naumburg in the Burgenland district . Lachstedt is a district of the community Schmiedehausen in the Weimarer Land district in the Free State of Thuringia .

history

Vögte and Schenken von Saaleck

The Saaleck was built around 1050 as a border fortress for protection on an important trade route. The landgraves of Thuringia , the margraves of Meissen or the Naumburg bishops can be considered as builders of the castle . In 1140, Hermannus advocatus de Salek , the noble free von Saaleck were mentioned for the first time in a document, who subsequently appear in the entourage of the Naumburg bishop as well as the landgrave of Thuringia and the margrave of Meissen. The order of the Saaleck bailiffs in the castle is known until 1213. The castle with its lands and the associated villages Saaleck, Kleinheringen, Rödigen, Lengefeld, Hassenhausen, Punschrau, Lachstedt and the Vorwerke Stendorf and Kreipitzsch they received as a fief from their sovereign, the Margrave of Meißen.

After the Vögte von Saaleck died out, the castle and the associated castle district came to the Vargula taverns around 1220 , whose side line of the Tautenburg taverns located at the castle called themselves “Saaleck taverns” from 1244 onwards. They owned the castle as a hereditary fief of the Margraves of Meißen from the House of Wettin , who were also Landgraves of Thuringia from 1247. Later this sovereignty passed to the Naumburg bishops. Due to the increasing indebtedness, the Saaleck taverns were forced from 1305 to sell individual properties, such as the tavern wood near Möllern , Fränkenau , Niederreißen , Niederreckolstädt , Obergosserstädt or the town of Hassenhausen . In 1344 they finally sold Saaleck Castle and its accessories to the Bishop of Naumburg, who, however, briefly pledged them to the Saaleck taverns again, in 1353.

The Hochstift-Naumburg Office Saaleck until it was integrated into the Office Naumburg

In 1349 the ownership rights of the von Saaleck taverns over the castle and the associated lands passed to the Bishop of Naumburg. In the following years, episcopal bailiffs or bailiffs were appointed to manage the castle. In 1396 Bishop Ulrich II of Radefeld redeemed the castle for good and placed it under the administration of Naumburg officials. The place Lengefeld was lent to the taverns of the Veste in 1465 . This family, which is related to the von Saaleck taverns, had its seat for a long time in the neighboring Rudelsburg , which Lengefeld owned from the 16th century.

After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the Naumburg bishopric and with it the Saaleck office came under the bailiwick of the Ernestine electorate of Saxony. In 1523 the main castle of Saaleck was given up and the official business was done from the outer castle. In 1538, the Naumburg bishop Philipp entrusted the lords of Bünau and knights of the Rudelsburg with the fiefdoms they had accrued, and a. the Vorwerk Kreipitzsch . The place was subsequently united with the Rudelsburg under one owner, although it was under the sovereignty of the Naumburg-Zeitz bishopric due to the feudal relationship.

The scattered holdings of the Naumburg bishops around their episcopal church in Naumburg an der Saale were combined in the Amt Naumburg in 1544 , in which the older offices of Schönburg and Saaleck, the possession of the secularized monasteries of St. Georg and St. Moritz as well as the urban softness of Naumburg were dissolved. After the death of Julius von Pflug, the last Bishop of Naumburg, in 1564, the Naumburg monastery and its offices passed to the Albertine Elector August I of Saxony as administrator. It thus became a subsidiary of the Electorate of Saxony .

Saaleck Castle was the residence of a bailiff until 1585 . After he moved into the Vorwerk Stendorf, which belonged to the castle, this was raised to a knighthood , while the ownerless castle fell into disrepair. At that time, in addition to the castle and the village of Saaleck, the Saaleck district included the villages of Kleinheringen, Rödigen, Punschrau and Lachstedt, the desert brands Döben and Hohendorf and the Vorwerke Stendorf and Kreipitzsch. The jurisdiction over the Vorwerk Kreipitzsch was granted in 1581 to the new owner of the Rudelsburg, which did not belong to the office. It became a mansion knight's estate , but remained a fiefdom. The remaining office Saaleck remained as an administrative unit in the Official Naumburg to the assignment of the Stiftisches area to the Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Zeitz exist. Duke Moritz of Saxony-Zeitz since 1656 administrator of the Bishopric of Naumburg-Zeitz, sold in 1659, the Vorwerk Stendorf with the ruins and the village Saaleck as schriftsässiges manor to his chancellor. The four villages of Kleinheringen, Rödigen, Punschrau and Lachstedt, together with the two encircled manors, formed the Saaleck district of the Naumburg Abbey.

Associated places

Castles
Villages
Vorwerke
Desolation
  • Döben and Hohendorf (near Saaleck)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UB Naumburg No. 148.
  2. ↑ Germania Sacra, pp. 665f.
  3. ↑ Hassenhausen on page 31
  4. ^ Germania Sacra, Lengefeld on page 596
  5. ↑ Short stories on Saxon-Thuringian history, Volume 2, p. 4
  6. ↑ Lengefeld in the book "Geography for all Stands", Volume 1, p. 389
  7. ^ Saaleck Castle on the homepage about the city of Naumburg
  8. ↑ Small stories on Saxon-Thuringian history, Volume 2, p. 34f.
  9. ^ The Naumburg Office in the State Archive of Saxony-Anhalt
  10. ↑ Small stories on Saxon-Thuringian history, Volume 2, Freiroda on p. 38
  11. ↑ The Hochstift Naumburg in the retro library
  12. ↑ History of Saaleck Castle
  13. ↑ Small stories on Saxon-Thuringian history, Volume 2, Freiroda on p. 58f., Footnote 117
  14. ↑ Small stories on Saxon-Thuringian history, Volume 2, p. 33
  15. ^ Döben and Hohendorf in the description of the place for Saaleck
  16. ↑ The desert brands Döben and Hohendorf on page 33