Office of Seyda

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The Kurkreis after Schreiber with the office of Seyda

The Amt Seyda was an administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony , which was converted into a kingdom in 1806, and was affiliated with the Kurkreis . It emerged from the Seyda lordship , which was bought in 1501 by the Saxon Elector Friedrich the Wise .

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 area of the Office Seyda was east of Wittenberg and north of Jessen (Elster) at the edge of the Low Flämings . In the southeast of the office was the Glücksburger Heide (Glücksburg Forest). The territory of the former Seyda office is now part of the federal states of Brandenburg (northern part and exclaves Kurzlipsdorf and Niederseefeld) and Saxony-Anhalt (southern part and exclave Labetz).

Adjacent administrative units

Principality of Querfurt ( Jüterbog Office ) Principality of Querfurt ( Jüterbog Office )
District Office Wittenberg Neighboring communities District Office Wittenberg (exclave)
Schweinitz Office

history

The Lords of Seyda, their main name was Anno, probably established a small rule in the east of the Lower Fläming before or around 1200 , presumably in the Brandenburg-Ascanian order (already / still in the service of Albrecht the Bear ?). Members of the family can be found in the vicinity of the Margraves of Brandenburg and probably came with the Ascanians from Sydow (near Jerichow ) to the Lower Fläming. The place names in the vicinity of Seyda indicate Flemish-Low German immigrants. In the north, the lords of Seyda were apparently primarily in competition with the ore monastery of Magdeburg . Around 1200 the two places Oehna and Gölsdorf were Magdeburg.

Since 1268 the lords of Seyda (Syden) testified as Saxon ministerials in the documents of the dukes of Saxony-Wittenberg . In 1315 and 1318, Duke Rudolf of Saxony recorded documents in Seyda without mentioning any of the Lords of Seyda on the documents. In 1320 the Lords of Seyda are apparently extinct in the male line and the rule of Duke Rudolf I liked. Since 1323 there has been no name holder in the documents that can be assigned to this family. Around 1363, Duke Rudolf II gave the Seyda rule to the Schenkendorf taverns , which were descended from the Landsberg taverns . Occasionally they also called themselves Schenken von Landsberg. Another family branch acquired the Teupitz rule at the beginning of the 15th century . Landsberg's taverns had their Wettin possessions around Petersberg near Halle , Zörbig , Pouch and Landsberg .

The Seyda rule remained in the possession of this family until 1501 when the Saxon Elector Frederick the Wise bought it for 20,000 guilders and formed the Seyda Office from it . This position, a portion of by the Treaty of Leipzig 1485 to ernestinischen line of Wettins associated Kurkreises , whose seat in Wittenberg was. Friedrich the Wise also had an inheritance book drawn up, which was completed in 1508. The seat of the Seyda office was the small town of Seyda , north of Jessen (Elster) . After the defeat of the Ernestines in the Schmalkaldic War in 1547 ( Wittenberg surrender ), the office and the entire Kurkreis came under the rule of the Albertines .

As a result of the defeat of the Kingdom of Saxony , the Congress of Vienna in 1815 decided to assign territories to the Kingdom of Prussia . a. concerned the entire Kurkreis with its offices. The Seyda office was largely assigned to the newly founded district of Schweinitz in the Prussian province of Saxony , the place Niederseefeld came to the district of Jüterbog-Luckenwalde in the province of Brandenburg .

Components

Cities

Villages

Bailiffs

  • 1547–1564 Joachim von Röbel, bailiff Schweinitz, Lochau, Jessen and Seyda
  • Christian Ernst von Kanne , † 1677
  • 1764 Mr. Reinhardt
  • 1790 Johann Christian Schwenke, bailiff at Seyda
Office building Seyda

literature

  • Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke: Kursächsischer Ämteratlas 1790 , Verlag Klaus Gumnior Chemnitz 2009.
  • Lorenz Friedrich Beck: The forgotten electorate. The ducal Ascanians and their territory between Fläming, lower Mulde and Schwarzer Elster. In: Contributions to the regional and state culture of Saxony-Anhalt , 28: pp. 72–89, Halle 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Meyn: From the late medieval regional duchy to the early [early modern] "territorial state" . 296 S., Kovač, 1995 snippets in Google Books
  2. ^ Political correspondence of Duke and Elector Moritz von Sachsen - Maurice Google Books
  3. ↑ Leipziger intelligence -blatt on the year - Google Books
  4. ↑ Selected collection of mixed economic writings; or: New encores ... - Johann Riem - Google Books