Office Voigtsberg

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The Voigtsberg office was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony, which was converted into a kingdom in 1806, in the Vogtland district . Between 1657 and 1718 belonged Office for Albertine Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Zeitz .

Until the end of the Saxon constitution of offices in 1856, as the Saxon office, it was the spatial reference point for the demand for sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , jurisdiction and military service .

Geographical expansion

The area of ​​the Voigtsberg office comprised the south of the Saxon Vogtland with the cities of Oelsnitz, Schöneck, Markneukirchen and Adorf. The office included the Upper Vogtland with part of the Elster Mountains , the western foothills of the Ore Mountains near Schöneck and the upper reaches of the rivers Weisse Elster , Zwickauer Mulde and Zwota . The office jutted south like a wedge into the territory of the Kingdom of Bohemia . With the place Misslareuth it had an exclave in the far west of the Saxon Vogtland. Enclaves of the Plauen district in the Voigtsberg area formed parts of Hundsgrün, Kottengrün and Werda.

Adjacent administrative units

Principality of Reuss younger line Office of Plauen
Principality of Bayreuth ( Landeshauptmannschaft Hof ) Neighboring communities Schwarzenberg district office
Kingdom of Bohemia ( Ascher Ländchen ) Kingdom of Bohemia ( Schönbacher Ländchen )

history

At the beginning of the 13th century, the Voigtsberg office with Voigtsberg Castle as a Thuringian afterfief of the Counts of Eberstein was owned by the Bailiffs von Straßberg and later the Bailiffs von Plauen . After the end of the Vogtland War , the office came with Oelsnitz / Vogtl. in 1356 to the Margrave of Meissen . A year later, Adorf / Vogtl. , Markneukirchen and the small office of Wiedersberg, southwest of Oelsnitz, sold by the Plauen bailiffs to the Meissen margrave. The two places came to the Voigtsberg office. The office of Wiedersberg was only combined with the office of Voigtsberg after 1378. Before 1370, the Schöneck reign was owned by Emperor Charles IV and in 1422 his son pledged it to the Wettins .

Since the division of Leipzig in 1485, the Voigtsberg office belonged to the Ernestine line of the Wettins. The rule of Schöneck acquired the Ernestine Elector Johann Friedrich in 1534. After 1542 it was integrated into the office of Voigtsberg. In 1529 the Reformation was introduced in the Vogtland .

Due to the defeat of the Ernestines in the Schmalkaldic War , the three Vogtland offices of Pausa , Plauen and Voigtsberg came into possession of the Bohemian crown in 1547 . In 1548 the Lords of Plauen bought the Voigtsberg office back as a Bohemian fief.

In 1569 it was bought by the Albertine elector from the heavily indebted bailiffs of Plauen and it became part of the newly founded Vogtland district within the electorate of Saxony . From the end of the 16th century, the influx of Protestant religious refugees from Bohemia and other Austrian countries, the so-called exiles , created new places in the border region to Bohemia. a. in the Klingenthal area. The skills brought with them resulted in z. B. a famous musical instrument industry, which brought this area the name " Musikwinkel ".

From 1657 to 1718 the three offices of the Vogtland district belonged to the Albertine secondary school principality of Saxony-Zeitz . In 1856, five judicial districts were formed from the Voigtsberg office. 1875 (in part) from the districts Oelsnitz, Adorf, Markneukirchen and Schöneck the Amtshauptmannschaft Oelsnitz formed. The court districts of Klingenthal and part of Schöneck became part of the Auerbach administration in 1875 .

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