Wittenberg Office

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The Kurkreis after Schreiber with the Wittenberg office

The Wittenberg Office , later also the Wittenberg District Office, was an administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony , which was converted into a kingdom in 1806, and was affiliated to the Kurkreis .

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 territory of the former Wittenberg office is now divided between the federal states of Brandenburg (northern part of the formerly independent Zahna office ) and Saxony-Anhalt .

Three exclaves belonged to the Wittenberg office. The exclave Blankensee with two places (east of Beelitz ) and the exclave Zellendorf (east of the Seyda district ) belong to the state of Brandenburg today . The Leipnitz exclave with 5 locations (south of the Pretzsch district on the Elbe ) is now part of the Free State of Saxony .

Adjacent administrative units

Belzig Office Mark Brandenburg Principality of Querfurt ( Jüterbog Office )
Principality of Anhalt Neighboring communities Office Seyda and Office Schweinitz
Office Graefenhainichen Office Bitterfeld Office Düben Office Pretzsch and Office Torgau

history

The Wittenberg Office was part of the Ascanian Duchy and Electorate of Saxony . After Albrecht IV's death in 1423, the entire area of ​​the Duchy of Saxony-Wittenberg came to the Wettin Margraves of Meissen. Between 1486 and 1490 the previous Zahna office and probably at the same time the old Trebitz office were combined with Wittenberg. The official territory had thus received its final extent for the next 320 years.

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 .

When the Albertine line of the Wettins received most of the Ernestines' imperial fiefs after the Wittenberg surrender , the office was combined with the other areas of the Duchy of Saxony and the County of Brehna in the Kurkreis , whose administrative center was the residential and official city of Wittenberg . On the orders of Elector Moritz von Sachsen, a new two-volume legacy book of the Wittenberg Office was created in 1550.

From the 17th century the Wittenberg office developed into a district office for the spa district (since 1808 it has been officially called the Wittenberg district ); the taxes of Kurkreises had henceforth by the Schössern are the other offices of the circle to the Office Wittenberg brought and the Office of the City of electoral mandates and edicts to have font and office Sassen of Kurkreises shipped.

In 1815 the entire district office of Wittenberg fell to the Kingdom of Prussia due to the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna . The Prussian district of Wittenberg within the province of Saxony became the largest part of the official area . Only smaller areas were separated in 1818, in particular the Blankensee exclave, which was allocated to the Jüterbog-Luckenwalde district in the province of Brandenburg .

Associated places

The Kursächsische Ämteratlas 1790 lists the following places in the Amt Wittenberg

Officials

  • 1513 to 1515 Anton von Niemeck, bailiff
  • Caspar Sander († 1697), senior bailiff
  • 1731 to 1739 Johann Benedict Carpzov , bailiff

literature

  • Peter Schenk : Office Wittenberg and Office Graefenhainichen : 1749. Historical map. Reprint: Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2006, ISBN 3-934748-33-3 .
  • Otto Oppermann: The Electoral Saxon Office Wittenberg in the beginning of the 16th century, shown on the basis of the inheritance book from 1513. Leipzig 1897. ( digitized version )
  • FG Leonhardi: Curfürstliche and Ducal Saxon country. Leipzig 1790.
  • Karlheinz Blaschke & Uwe Ulrich Jäschke: Kursächsischer Ämteratlas 1790 , Verlag Klaus Gumnior Chemnitz 2009 (Kreisamt Wittenberg, p. 18/19).

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