Office Torgau

The Torgau Office, map by Peter Schenk

The Torgau Office, map by Johann George Schreiber 1752

The Torgau Office was an administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony , which was converted into a kingdom in 1806, and was affiliated to the 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 office of Torgau was in the northwest of the Meißnische Kreis . For the most part it was west of the Elbe . The Black Trench flowed through it. To the north of the office was the Dommitzscher Heide . The office had three exclaves , one of which was in the east northeast of Belgians . The other two exclaves were wholly or largely in the Wurzen district north of Wurzen and west of Dahlen .

Adjacent administrative units

Office Düben	Office Pretzsch District Office Wittenberg (exclaves)	Schweinitz Office and Annaburg Office
Office Eilenburg		Office Schweinitz (exclaves)
Wurzen Abbey ( Amt Wurzen )	Office Oschatz	Mühlberg Office

history

Since 1119 there has been a castle in Torgau owned by the Markmeißn family. The Torgau office was established at the end of the 15th century. After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the office belonged to the Ernestine line of the Wettins . Since the defeat of the Ernestines in the Schmalkaldic War in 1547, it has been in the possession of the Albertines . The administrative seat of the office was in the city of Torgau. In 1581 the Torgau Office was merged with the Belgern Office from the possession of the Meissen Abbey ( Wurzen Abbey ).

As a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, most of the official territory was ceded to Prussia . In 1816 the Prussian district of Torgau was established . The Kingdom of Saxony left the places Collmen (exclave), Röcknitz and Treben, which were affiliated to the Wurzen office, as well as an exclave with the places Dornreichenbach, Heyda (near Böhlen), Meltewitz and Stolpen, which came under the administration of the neighboring Oschatz office .

Components

Cities

• Torgau
• Belgians
• Dommitzsch
• Schildau

Villages

u. a.

Bennewitz Dobeltitz Drebligar Drögnitz Dröschkau Elsnig Graefendorf Klitzschen

Kobershain Kranichau Langenreichenbach Liebersee (proportionately) Mahitzschen Mehderitzsch Not joke Pressel

Pushwitz Röcknitz (1816 to the Wurzen office ) Roitzsch Seydewitz (proportionately) Treben (1816 to the office of Wurzen) Trossin Weßnig Welsau

Wildschütz

Exclaves

• Collmen (1816 to the Wurzen office)
• Dornreichenbach (1816 to Oschatz)
• Heyda (1816 to Oschatz Office)
• Kaucklitz
• Meltewitz (1816 to Oschatz)
• Stolpen (1816 to the Oschatz Office)

Desolation

• horn
• Jubilation
• Lakuth

Another possession

• Forest Doberschütz (eastern part)

Bailiffs

• Christoph Heinrich von Leipziger (1678–1748)
• Carl Gottfried Engelschall (1734–1760)
• Johann Gottlieb Dahme (around 1780)
• Gustav Anton Freiherr von Seckendorff (1775–1823)

literature

• Leo Bönhoff : The oldest offices of the Mark Meissen . In: New Archive for Saxon History . tape 38 , 1917, p. 17–45 ( digitized version ).
• Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke: Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Klaus Gumnior, Chemnitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0
• Karlheinz Blaschke, (Ed.): Historical local directory of Saxony , Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-15-8

Web links

• (PDF; 449 kB) - Torgau Office in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives (PDF; 449 kB) - Torgau Office in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives
• The Torgau Office in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Johann Christian Hasche: Torgau Official Governors.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Doberschütz in the Historical Directory of Saxony