Office Sornzig

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The Sornzig Office , also called Sornzig Monastery Office , was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony, which was converted into a kingdom in 1806, belonging to the Wurzen Abbey . After the Abbey Office Wurzen was dissolved in 1818, the Office Sornzig, together with the Office Mügeln, was a lordly office in the Leipzig district of the Kingdom of Saxony .

Until the end of the Saxon constitution of offices in 1856, it was the spatial reference point for the demand for sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , jurisdiction and army successes . The official seat was at Marienthal Monastery in Sornzig .

Geographical location

The office Sornzig was located in side valleys of the Döllnitz southwest of the city of Mügeln . The places of the former office today mostly belong to the city of Mügeln.

Adjacent administrative units

The offices of Sornzig and Mügeln formed the southern part of the Wurzen monastery office , which was separated from the northern part of the office of Wurzen by the electoral office of Mutzschen .

Inheritance Grimma Wurzen Abbey ( Amt Mügeln )
Office Colditz (exclave) Neighboring communities Wurzen Abbey ( Amt Mügeln )
Leisnig Office Meissen Education Authority Meissen Education Authority

history

From the founding of the monastery to the Reformation

The Marienthal nunnery in Sornzig was founded in 1241 by Sifridus de Mogelin . The surrounding towns came under the administration of the monastery through donations to the monastery. After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the office belonged to the Albertine line of the Wettins . In the course of the introduction of the Reformation around 1540, the Marienthal Monastery was secularized . The area of ​​the monastery was administered between 1540 and 1570 as part of the electoral education authority of Meissen . Then the Saxon elector exchanged it with the Meißner bishop for the Mühlberg office . The latter was only in the possession of the Meißner Bishop Johann IX in 1559 . von Haugwitz after the Saxon elector had exchanged the Mühlberg office for the Stolpen office in Saxon Switzerland, which was owned by the bishop .

The Sornzig Office as part of the Wurzen Monastery Office (1584–1818)

On October 20, 1581 the last bishop Johann IX thanked . von Haugwitz and converted to Protestantism. He lived in Mügeln until his death in 1595 and received the Ruhethal Castle , built around 1150, to which he gave this name, as well as the former Marienthal Monastery in Sornzig , as an annuity . The Sornzig monastery office, which had been in the possession of the bishop since 1570, was placed under the administration of the Wurzen collegiate monastery in 1584 . It was thus fully in the since 1547 Albertine Electorate incorporated, although there are still as part of the pen Office Wurzen to 1818 by a specially created "Electoral Saxon pin Government" ( by the pen Meissen prescribed captain, Chancellor and councils ) on behalf of the Dresden Court was administered.

Between 1666 and 1761 the former Sornzig monastery was a manor owned by the von Burkersroda family . From 1770 it was an office again, but was mostly mentioned together with the neighboring office of Mügeln . On the Sornzig monastery land given to the population, the three new towns of Lichteneichen, Neubaderitz and Neusornzig were founded around 1797.

The area of ​​the Mügeln with Sornzig office after the dissolution of the Wettin monastery government in 1818

After the Wurzen Abbey was dissolved in 1818, the Wurzen and Mügeln offices with Sornzig became sovereign offices in the Leipzig district of the Kingdom of Saxony . The Mügeln and Sornzig office existed until 1856 and was then replaced by the Mügeln and Oschatz court offices .

Associated places

Together with Sornzig, ten villages and three newly established villages belonged to the Sornzig office. After an administrative reform in 1836, the Mügeln office together with Sornzig comprised 55 villages.

Official Villages

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