Wendelstein Office
The Wendelstein 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 .
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 Wendelstein office extended along the Unstrut . The headquarters of the office was Wendelstein Castle .
history
The official seat of Wendelstein originally belonged to the Counts of Weimar-Orlamünde , who lost it to the Wettin Landgraves of Thuringia in the Thuringian Count War (1342/1345) . Landgrave Friedrich II pledged the castle to his court judge Christian von Witzleben († 1374). When Leipzig was divided in 1485, Wendelstein fell to the Albertine Duchy of Saxony. After the Wittenberg surrender in 1547, Wandelstein belonged to the Albertine Electorate of Saxony ( Thuringian District ).
The property was scattered around the castle. Until 1619 it belonged to the Wendelstein line of those von Witzleben. In 1623, Wendelstein and the associated lordship came into the direct possession of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony as a separate office .
From 1657 to 1746 the Office for Wendelstein Albertine belonged Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Weissenfels , which is from 1686 in terms of the economy and the Principality of Justice Sachsen-Querfurt shelter.
The Wendelstein office was one of those areas that the Kingdom of Saxony , which existed from 1806, had to cede to the Kingdom of Prussia after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 . In the resulting Prussian province of Saxony , the Wendelstein office (subdivided into the Rent and Justice Office) was finally dissolved in 1821. The tasks of the Wendelstein office were transferred to the newly formed district administration and the newly formed Prussian regional courts. In 1849 the patrimonial courts in the Wendelstein district were also dissolved.
Components
- Allerstedt (1/2)
- Bottendorf
- Rossleben
- Saubach (1/2)
- Wendelstein
- Willerstedt
- Zeisdorf (1/2)
literature
- A. Hopfer: Saxony and Anhalt, Volume 1, 1925, p. 322.
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 34 f.