Office Schkeuditz

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The offices of Lauchstädt, Merseburg, Schkeuditz and Lützen around 1740

The office of Schkeuditz was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony that belonged to the Merseburg Monastery and, between 1656/57 and 1738, to the Secondogeniture Principality of Saxony-Merseburg . Until it was partially ceded to Prussia in 1815, it was the spatial reference point for claiming sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , judiciary and military service .

Geographical location

The office of Schkeuditz was in the Leipzig lowland bay . The White Elster and the Luppe flowed through it.

Due to the division of 1815 and the district reform of the GDR in 1952, the area of ​​the office is now in the federal states of Saxony (city of Leipzig , district of northern Saxony ) and Saxony-Anhalt ( Saalekreis ).

Adjacent administrative units

Saalkreis ( Archbishopric Magdeburg or from 1680 Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg ) Delitzsch Office (Electorate of Saxony)
Office Merseburg ( Saxony-Merseburg ) Neighboring communities District Office Leipzig (Electorate of Saxony)
Office Lützen (Saxony-Merseburg)

In the south, the office also bordered an exclave of the Leipzig district office.

history

The town of Schkeuditz was first mentioned in 981 under the name "scudici" as a parish church in the diocese of Merseburg . In 1271 Schkeuditz and the surrounding area were sold by the Margrave of Landsberg to the diocese of Merseburg, which also granted the town of Schkeuditz city rights in 1436.

The office of Schkeuditz was thus an episcopal office of the Merseburg bishopric from the 13th century . After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the office was counted under the influence of the Albertine line of the Wettins . As a result of the secularization of the Merseburg diocese, the diocese and its offices came to the Electorate of Saxony in 1547 and became a neighboring country in 1561 .

From 1657 to 1738 the office of Schkeuditz belonged to the Wettin secondary school duchy of Saxony-Merseburg . During the Thirty Years War Schkeuditz was burned down twelve times and looted nine times. During the Seven Years' War the city was occupied by Prussia and had to pay taxes to the Prussian military . In 1813, the Leipzig area was an important scene of the Wars of Liberation , which is why Schkeuditz was besieged several times by Prussians, French and Russians.

After the defeat of Napoleon and the allied Kingdom of Saxony ( Kingdom since 1806), the Congress of Vienna decided in 1815 to cede a large part of its territory to the Kingdom of Prussia . The office of Schkeuditz was divided. The larger western part with the town of Schkeuditz was annexed to the Prussian province of Saxony ( Merseburg district ), the smaller eastern part remained with the Kingdom of Saxony and came to the Office of Leipzig . The Schkeuditz share of Hayna was assigned with the Leipzig share to the Prussian district of Delitzsch , which also included the Kölsa exclave.

Associated places

Places in what is now the Free State of Saxony

City (ceded to Prussia in 1815)
Villages that remained with Saxony in 1815
Villages ceded to Prussia in 1815

Places in today's state of Saxony-Anhalt

Villages ceded to Prussia in 1815

literature

  • Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Jäschke: Kursächsischer Amtatlas 1790 . Gumnior, 2009.
  • Karlheinz Blaschke, (Ed.): Historical local directory of Saxony , Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-15-8

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