Weissenfels Office
The Weißenfels office was an administrative unit in the Thuringian district of the Electorate of Saxony, which was converted into a kingdom in 1806 . Between 1657 and 1746 the office belonged to the Albertine secondary school principality of Saxony-Weißenfels . The official seat was the town of Weißenfels on the Saale .
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 official area is today in the south of the state of Saxony-Anhalt and in the northeast of the state of Thuringia and covers parts of the Burgenland district , parts of the Weißenfels district, which has merged into this, and parts of the Saale-Holzland district .
history
The Weißenfels office in the later Thuringian district appears as early as 1349 as "districtus" owned by the Wettins.
From 1656/57 to 1746 the office was part of the Albertine secondary school principality of Saxony-Weißenfels . The Electorate of Saxony, however, reserved the supervision of the writers in the offices left to the secondary school. For the offices of Freyburg , Eckartsberga and Weißenfels located in the Thuringian district, the office of Pforta, which remained in the main line of Electoral Saxony, took over this task.
Due to the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the previously royal Saxon office fell to the Kingdom of Prussia and was absorbed into the later district of Weißenfels .
Components
In addition to numerous official villages, several patrimonial courts also belonged to the official area, including Bonau , Domsen , Droyßig , Gladitz with Reppicha , Goldschau , Gröbitz , Großgestewitz , Langendorf , Meineweh , Pretzsch , Schkortleben , Schleinitz , Tackau , Teuchern , Thierbach , Wengelsdorf . The cities of Weißenfels , Osterfeld , Schkölen and Teuchern also belonged to it.
Lore
The written records of the Weißenfels Office (before 1815) are now kept in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives at the Wernigerode location . The inventory bears the designation D 51 in the so-called Ämterarchiv .
literature
- Gustav E. Heydenreich: Church and school chronicle of the city and ephorie Weißenfels since 1839 , 1840
- A. Hopfer: Saxony and Anhalt, Volume 1, 1925, p. 322.
- Complete overview of the holdings of the State Main Archives Magdeburg , Vol. IV, Halle (Saale)
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Office and State School Pforta in the State Archives Saxony-Anhalt
- ^ Office Weißenfels in the state archive of Saxony-Anhalt