Office Schönburg

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The office of Schönburg 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 office of Schönburg was on the right bank of the Saale east of Naumburg between the Wethau in the west and the Kötschbach in the east. Adjacent administrative units were the Wettin office of Freyburg in the north, the Wettin office of Weißenfels in the east and south, and in the west the town of Naumburg belonging to the Naumburg-Zeitz monastery.

The official area is now in the state of Saxony-Anhalt and includes the municipality of Schönburg (Saale) and two parts of the city of Teuchern in the Burgenland district .

history

The Schönburg on the Saale

The Castle Schoenburg was first documented in 1137. It was owned by the bishops of Naumburg and from the 13th century until the Reformation it was immediate and free of feudal rights. Essentially built from 1175 to 1250, the castle was probably built by the bishops themselves, since 1166 episcopal Naumburg ministers lived on it , which have been called "Schönburg" since 1174 (see Schönburg (noble family) and Schönberg (noble family) ) . From 1157 to 1668 castellans administered the Schönburg.

Since the 12th century, the Burgward Schönburg east of Naumburg with twelve surrounding villages formed a larger property district belonging to the Naumburg / Zeitz bishopric on the border with the Wettin office of Weißenfels . The extent of the Burgwards district of Schönburg was described in a document from Margrave Dietrich von Landsberg in 1278. It lay exclusively to the east of the Saale, which formed its western border. Initially, the twelve villages Gröbitz (partly), Plotha (partly), Ober-, Mittel- and Unter- Possenhain, Babendorf, Böllnitz, Bohndorf, Kathewitz, Öblitz and Pfaffendorf belonged to it. At that time there was no place Schönburg. The Schönburg settlement consisted of a few houses around the castle in which castle servants lived. In the Saxon fratricidal war (1446–1451), Apel conquered von Vitzthum in the service of Landgrave Wilhelm III. the castle, which burned out. Due to profound changes in agriculture in the 13th and 14th centuries and as a result of the devastation in the Saxon fratricidal war, the places Babendorf, Böllnitz, Bohndorf, Kathewitz, Öblitz, Pfaffendorf and two villages Possenhain were given up. In order to find better protection from danger, the inhabitants of these places moved closer to the castle, which resulted in today's village of Schönburg.

In 1355 Schönburg Castle was pledged to the Naumburg Cathedral Chapter for a short time . In the 14th century it became the seat of an episcopal bailiff. The office of Schönburg included the four villages Schönburg, Possenhain, Plotha (proportionally) and Gröbitz (proportionately). Later the possessions of Gröbitz, located within the Burgward Schönburg, fell in desolation. The office of Schönburg was the most important and oldest Naumburg bishopric on the Saale.

After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the Naumburg bishopric and its offices came under the bailiwick of the Ernestine electorate of Saxony. The free float of the Naumburg bishops around their episcopal church on the Saale was combined in the Amt Naumburg in 1544 , in which the older offices of Schönburg and Saaleck , the possession of the secularized monasteries St. Georg and St. Moritz as well as the urban softness of Naumburg were absorbed.

With the death of the last Naumburg bishop Julius von Pflug in 1564, the Naumburg monastery and its offices were transferred to the Albertine elector August I of Saxony as administrator. It thus became a subsidiary of the Electorate of Saxony . In 1570, Schönburg Castle was leased by the Electors - initially again to the Naumburg Cathedral Chapter. In the renaissance building of the outer bailey, the forestry department was established around 1650 and remained there for several centuries. The decay began on the unused buildings. In 1668 the official property belonging to the castle was sold to the farmers of Schönburg and Possenhain.

Associated places

Castles
places
Desolation
  • Babendorf
  • Boellnitz
  • Bohndorf
  • Gröbitz (part of the Burgward Schönburg)
  • Kathewitz
  • Öblitz
  • Pfaffendorf
  • Possenhain (two of three villages with the same name)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Germania Sacra, pp. 678f.
  2. ↑ Small stories on Saxon-Thuringian history, Volume 2, scope of the Burgward Schönburg, p.89
  3. ↑ The Schönburg on www.blaues-band.de
  4. ^ The Schönburg in the book Germania Sacra, p. 67.
  5. ↑ Small stories on Saxon-Thuringian history, Volume 2, scope of the Burgward Schönburg p.106
  6. ↑ Germania Sacra, p. 582
  7. ^ The Naumburg Office in the State Archive of Saxony-Anhalt
  8. ↑ The Hochstift Naumburg in the retro library