Office Tenneberg

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The Amt Tenneberg was a territorial administrative unit of the Ernestine duchies . From 1640 it belonged to the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha , from 1672 to the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg . In 1748 the Reinhardsbrunn office was attached to the office, with which it belonged to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha since 1826 . Until the administrative and territorial reform of the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1858 and the related resolution made it as official spatial reference point for claiming nationalistic taxes and labor services , for police , judiciary and military service .

Geographical location

The Tenneberg office was on the northern edge of the Thuringian Forest . While the "forest villages" were in the Thuringian Forest, the "care villages" were on the southern edge of the Thuringian basin or in the western Thuringian mountain and hill country . With the Waltershäuser, Wahlwinkler, Tabarzer, Kleinschmalkalder, Wintersteiner and Ruhlaer Forest, an extensive forest district belonged to the official area. The southern official border ran from west to east from the upper reaches of the Erbstrom near Ruhla over the Dreiherrenstein on the Großer Weißenberg , then along the Rennsteig over the Großer Inselsberg and then along the upper reaches of the Schmalkalde to Kleinschmalkalden and back on the Rennsteig. The border separated the above. Places that included the western part of Ruhla, the northern part of the Inselsberg and the eastern part of Kleinschmalkalden. In the official area was still u. a. the Kleine Inselsberg and the Boxberg near Leina. Rivers in the office were the Hörsel (called Leina in the upper reaches) and the Laucha as well as the border rivers Erbstrom and Schmalkalde.

The former official area is now in the center of the Free State of Thuringia and belongs to the districts of Gotha , Wartburgkreis (Ruhla) and Schmalkalden-Meiningen (Kleinschmalkalden).

Adjacent administrative units

The Tenneberg office bordered the Schmalkalden rule in the south , which from 1360 to 1583 was under the joint administration of the Landgraviate of Hesse and the County of Henneberg -Schleusingen. In the 16th and 17th centuries the political affiliation of the surrounding areas changed. a. through the following events:

  • Transfer of the Reinhardsbrunn monastery to Wettin-Saxon ownership after 1525 (Ernestiner)
  • Divisions and amalgamations of the Ernestine duchies from 1572
  • Extinction of the Counts of Henneberg in 1583: the Schmalkalden rule became the sole property of the Landgraviate of Hesse.

Since the founding of the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg in 1672 and the division of the state in 1680, the Tenneberg office has bordered the following areas:

history

Ludowingian Landgraves of Thuringia

The medieval Tenneberg Castle was first mentioned in a document from the Ludovingian Landgraves of Thuringia around 1176 . Under Landgrave Ludwig III. Tenneberg Castle became the protective castle of the Reinhardsbrunn monastery, 5 km away (as the crow flies) . Later, a long-lasting border dispute over rights of use and land ownership arose between the monastery governors and the castle. The landgraves used Tenneberg Castle as a secondary residence. At the same time they privileged the town of Waltershausen by granting Eisenach city rights .

Wettin Landgraves of Thuringia

After the Ludowingers became extinct, the Wettins became the new Landgraves of Thuringia during the War of the Thuringian Succession (1247–1264) . Aspach, Hörselgau, Teutleben, Trügleben, Sundhausen, Uelleben, Wahlwinkel, the later desolations of Bossenborn, Nottichenrode and Eschleben as well as six forest districts belonged to the Tenneberg castle district. Originally Gospiteroda and Laucha also belonged to the castle district, which later came to noble lords. The “Amt Tenneberg” was created from this castle district under the Thuringian Landgraves and Dukes of Saxony in the 14th century and expanded to include additional locations in West Thuringia (including Leina from the Amt Reinhardsbrunn). In 1392 Waltershausen and Tenneberg Castle were designated as personal treasures for the future daughter-in-law of the Thuringian landgrave. Ibenhain was transferred to the City Council of Waltershausen in 1394.

After the Leipzig division of the Wettin possessions in 1485, the Tenneberg office came as part of the Landgraviate of Thuringia to the Electorate of Saxony of the Ernestines . Around 1500 a settlement emerged on the Tenneberg official area east of the Schmalkalde, which took the name of the opposite, then Hessian-Henneberg town of Kleinschmalkalden. The Reformation was introduced to the area in 1527. After that some places and goods of the dissolved Katharinenkloster in Eisenach, u. a. Langenhain, taken to office.

Ernestine duchies

As a result of the Schmalkaldic War , the Ernestines lost their electoral dignity in 1547 , which unified their possessions in the Duchy of Saxony . During the division of the Duchy of Saxony in Erfurt in 1572, the Tenneberg office was assigned to the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Eisenach and in 1596 to the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg . In the last division, the place Ruhla was divided into an Eisenach and a Tenneberg half. From the Tenneberg part, the Lords of Uetterodt were in turn assigned an administrative district in 1610, which means that the place has been divided into three parts since then. Around 1600 the Lords of Uetterodt ceded their splinter holdings on the Nonnenberg to the sovereigns under unknown circumstances.

During the reign of Duke Johann Casimir von Sachsen-Coburg , Tenneberg Castle was converted into a hunting lodge between 1612 and 1622 . The district of Klein Tabarz, first mentioned in 1614, developed around the Untermühle and a ducal hunting lodge belonging to the armory of Tenneberg Castle .

After Johann Casimir's death in 1633, the Tenneberg office with the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg fell back to Saxe-Eisenach, which was now again called Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach. In 1638 the Tenneberg office fell to the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar and was allocated to the newly founded Duchy of Saxe-Gotha when the Ernestine was divided in 1640 , which was expanded to form the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg in 1672 . The Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg was divided again in 1680 by the “ Gotha Main Recess ”, with the office remaining with the greatly reduced Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg. When the Reinhardsbrunner magistrate Wilhelm Heinrich Schulte in 1748 the Office Themar took over the south-east of lying Tenneberg was official Reinhardsbrunn subordinated to the bailiff of Tenneberg. But it still had its own sub-officials. The subjects of the Fröttstädt Chamber Estate were subordinated to the Tenneberg Office after they were redeemed by the Princely Chamber in 1722.

After the Saxon-Gotha-Altenburg line had died out, the Hildburghausen Partition Treaty of November 12, 1826 resulted in a comprehensive restructuring of the Ernestine duchies . The Tenneberg office came with Reinhardsbrunn as part of Saxe-Gotha to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , whose two parts of the country were henceforth governed in personal union.

When administration and justice were separated in 1830, the seat of the new “Tenneberg Justice Office” was relocated from Tenneberg Castle to Reinhardsbrunn. The places Aspach, Boilstädt, Sundhausen, Teutleben, Trügleben and Uelleben came to the Gotha justice office. The Tenneberg shares from Ruhla and Winterstein came to the Thal court office in 1838/39. The Imperial Counts of Hohenlohe ceded inheritance jurisdiction over Gospiteroda to the Tenneberg Justice Office in 1842. Furthermore, Laucha and Mechterstädt came from the Hopffgarten court to the Tenneberg Justice Office. In 1848 the seat of the Tenneberg Justice Office was moved back to Tenneberg.

The Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha was divided into independent cities and district offices in 1858. The Tenneberg Office was integrated with Reinhardsbrunn into the Waltershausen District Office , while the administrative tasks of the Tenneberg Justice Office were transferred to the Tenneberg District Court in Waltershausen in 1879 .

Associated places

city
Care villages
Forest villages
Noble places
Palaces and castles
Desolation
  • Bossenborn
  • Dornbach
  • Eschleben
  • Nottichenrode

Bailiffs

  • Christoph Goldacker (around 1535)
  • D. Wilhelm Gottlieb Jacobs (around 1748)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical outline of the town history of Waltershausen ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.800-jahre-waltershausen.de
  2. ↑ Schloss Tenneberg on the website "Via Regia"
  3. ^ Locations of the Gotha Justice Office
  4. ↑ Book: "Thuringia Architectural and Art Monuments", 1891
  5. ↑ Schloss Tenneberg on the website "Via Regia"
  6. ^ The Tenneberg Justice Office in the Thuringia Archives
  7. ↑ Wüstung Eschleben on Hörsel.de