Office of Schlieben (Electorate of Saxony)
The office of Schlieben was an administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony , which was converted into a kingdom in 1806, and was affiliated with the Kurkreis . It was largely in the area of the current Elbe-Elster district in the state of Brandenburg .
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 expansion
The western border of the Saxon Office Schlieben was the Schwarze Elster . The eastern places are on the Niederlausitzer Land ridge . The official area is now largely in the area of the current Elbe-Elster district in the state of Brandenburg .
Adjacent administrative units
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history
The aristocratic rule, named after a castle near the village of Schlieben , passed in 1156 from the political association of the Saxon Ostmark (= Lower Lusatia ) to the Counts of Brehna . Schlieben then formed the eastern part of County Brehna . After the Counts of Brehna died out, the area came to the Ascanian Duchy of Saxony in 1290 .
After the Ascanian Kurlinie expired, the area around Schlieben with the entire Duchy or Electorate of Saxony-Wittenberg came to the House of Wettin in 1423 , where it remained as part of the Kurkreis until the disaster of 1815 . After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the office and the entire spa district belonged to the Ernestine line of the Wettins . Since the defeat of the Ernestines in the Schmalkaldic War in 1547 ( Wittenberg surrender ), it was owned by the Albertines .
In the Middle Ages, the electoral goods complex around Schlieben was one of the estates whose income was intended for the care of the elector's widow. In the course of the 14th century, this resulted in the office of Schlieben, the territorial existence of which has remained largely unchanged since the end of the 14th century. The official seat was the "big village", since 1606/16 the town of Schlieben.
The judicial officer in Schlieben and his colleague, the administrator, were not only responsible in court and administrative matters for the immediate electoral property in the office, but also as the tax and supervisory authority for the - about 20 - manors (with their own jurisdiction) in the actual district and to a limited extent also for the media territories of Baruth and Sonnewalde of the Counts of Solms-Laubach, which belong to the neighboring Lower Lusatia .
When the Kingdom of Saxony was divided at the Congress of Vienna in the spring of 1815, the office of Schlieben was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia like the entire Kurkreis . By ordinance of April 30, 1815, the office of Schlieben was assigned to the district of the newly formed "Government of the Duchy of Saxony of Merseburg" in association with the Province of Saxony . When the lower administrative level was restructured in 1816, the new district of Schweinitz was formed from the offices of Schlieben, Schweinitz and Seyda . Baruth and Sonnewalde , on the other hand, were incorporated into the Jüterbog-Luckenwalde and Luckau districts of the Brandenburg province , to which the northern exclaves Petkus and Heinsdorf , Wahlsdorf (on the “Waltersdorff” map) and Niebendorf and Rüdlingsdorf were assigned.
Components
Cities
Villages
The office had 35 villages. For the year 1800 a total of 7029 inhabitants is given.
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Governors
literature
- Karlheinz Blaschke & Uwe Ulrich Jäschke: Kursächsischer Ämteratlas 1790 , Verlag Klaus Gumnior Chemnitz 2009
Web links
- D 43 Office Schlieben, 1516–1860 (inventory) - The Office Schlieben on the homepage of the State Archives of Saxony-Anhalt