Senftenberg Office

The Senftenberg office (top right) on a map by Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly around 1791

The Senftenberg office was an administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony , which was converted into a kingdom in 1806, and was affiliated to its Meißnische Kreis .

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 location

The area of ​​the office was fairly closed, predominantly to the right of the Schwarzen Elster and bordered in the north and east on the margraviate of Lower Lusatia , in the south on the margravate of Upper Lusatia and in the west on the "old Bländische", Electoral Saxon office of Hayn (Grossenhain) .

The official area is now largely in the state of Brandenburg and a small part in the Free State of Saxony (area around Lauta ).

Adjacent administrative units

Finsterwalde Office	Markgraftum Niederlausitz ( Office Dobrilugk and Knighthood Calau )	Kingdom of Prussia (exclave of the Mark Brandenburg )
Grossenhain office		Markgraftum Niederlausitz ( Office Spremberg )
	Margraviate of Upper Lusatia	Margravate Oberlausitz ( Standesherrschaft Hoyerswerda )

history

The town and rule of Senftenberg originally belonged to the Lower Lusatia margravate . In 1448 the Wettins bought the rule through Elector Friedrich II and from then on the territory, which had now been established as a separate office, belonged to Saxony for almost 370 years . The Senftenberg office fell to Prussia as a result of the regulations of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 . There, the city and all official locations were assigned to the district of Calau in the administrative district of Frankfurt in the province of Brandenburg when the administration was redistributed . By 1823 at the latest, the Senftenberg office was only a rent office. It was dissolved on August 1, 1874.

Components

At the instigation of the Elector, the Senftenberg Office also created an office inheritance book in 1544 in which all possessions, income and rights, insofar as these were administered by the Senftenberg official , are recorded.

In addition to the city of Senftenberg, 29 other places belonged to the rule :

Brieske Buchwalde Stooping Dörrwalde Grand Koshen

Großräschen Grünewalde Hörlitz Jüttendorf Toddlers

Kleinräschen Klettwitz Cost brew with the district of Wischgrund Lauta

Lieske Meuro Naundorf near Ruhland Rauno Reppist

Rose village Särchen Saalhausen Sauo Scado

Schmogro Sedlitz Wendisch Sorno Vozhkov Zschornegosda

as well as the Pommelheide south of Kostebrau . The place Zschipkau was an exclave that belonged to the Hayn office .

literature

• Series of publications for local research in the Senftenberg district. Issue No. 1
• Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0
• Fritz Bönisch : Lordship and office of Senftenberg and the local historical sources. In: Niederlausitz Studies. Issue 32, Cottbus 2005, pp. 22-27
• Georg Christoph Kreyziger a . a .: Annales Senftenbergensis manvscripti, therein the city, Vestung and Ambtes Senfftenberg in Meißen memorable history, sambt dero spiritual and secular rulers etc. are described. In: Contributions to the history of the Chur and Princely Saxon Lands. Volume 5, Alrenburg 1761, pp. 32-109
• Johann Gottlob Paulitz: Chronicle of the city of Senftenberg and the localities belonging to the former Senftenberg office. Senftenberg / Großenhain / Dresden 1892–1923 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian Government in Frankfurt ad O., year 1823, supplement to No. 1 of January 1, 1823, p. 1.
2. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Prussian Government in Frankfurt ad O., year 1874, issue 30 of July 29, 1874, p. 183. Online at Google Books

Web links

• Digital historical place directory of Saxony - office directory - the office Senftenberg in the digital historical place directory of Saxony