Wittstock Office

Mayor's house and official tower of the old bishop's castle in Wittstock / Dosse, seat of the Wittstock office

The Wittstock office was an electoral Brandenburg , later a royal Prussian domain office , which originally goes back to an administrative unit of the Havelberg monastery , also called Wittstock office . In 1571 the Havelberg Monastery was merged with the Electorate of Brandenburg. In 1786 the seat of the office was moved to Goldbeck Castle. In 1872 the Wittstock office was dissolved.

history

Wittstock Castle belonged to the original secular property of the Bishop of Havelberg (Hochstift Havelberg) as early as 1150. The town of Wittstock, which was built around 1240, and the castle became an episcopal residence from around 1270. It was only with the incorporation of the Havelberg Monastery into the Mark Brandenburg in 1571 by Elector Johann Georg Wittstock became an electoral media town or, to put it another way, Wittstock did not belong to the Mark Brandenburg until 1571.

At the end of the Middle Ages, the Havelberg Monastery was administratively divided into four offices: Wittstock Office, Plattenburg Office, Schönhausen Office and Bellin Office (formerly also known as Ländchen Bellin). In 1553 the Hochstift Havelberg (and with it the four Hochstiftischen offices) came under electoral Brandenburg administration, but initially remained as an administrative unit. It was not until 1571 that Margrave Joachim Georg also formally united the Havelberg Monastery with the Electorate of Brandenburg (or the Kurmark ). The offices of the bishopric were added to the electoral domanial property. The Wittstock office comprised Wittstock Castle and its accessories, the town of Wittstock, the villages of Biesen, Dossow, Klein-Haßlow, Papenbruch, Teetz, Wernikow and Wulfersdorf, shares in the villages of Blandikow, Glienicke, Jabel and the desert field marks Damelow, Eggersdorf, Ferchow, Lellichow, Podarft, Steckelsdorf and Woltersdorf as well as the Bohnenkamp and Neu-Daber sheep farms. In 1770 the administration of justice had to be handed over to the justice office in Wusterhausen an der Dosse.

In 1786 the official seat was moved from Wittstock Castle to Goldbeck Castle without the offices being combined. They were still administered separately.

Official places

In 1817 the following places belonged to the Wittstock office:

Biesen ( village and aristocratic estate ) (today part of the town of Wittstock / Dosse)
Blandikow (Blantikow, Dorf ) (today a district of the municipality of Heiligengrabe). In 1685 the Goldbeck office gave its shares in the village to the Wittstock office, while the Wittstock office gave its shares in the village of Groß-Haßlow to the Goldbeck office. Around 1817 all of Blandikow belonged to the Wittstock office.
Bohnenkamp ( Amtsvorwerk and Establishment ) (now in Wittstock / Dosse, around Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 38 to 42)
Borksche Mühle ( Borcksche Mühle, watermill, near Lellichow ) (no longer exists, was on the way from Bork to Lellichow, at the transition over the Klempnitz )
Dossow (also Dosse, Dorf ) (today a district of the city of Wittstock / Dosse)
Glienicke (Glienecke, Dorf ) (today part of the municipality of Heiligengrabe). An outdoor farm with 2 hooves belonged to the Jabel estate.
Groß Haßlow (Groß Hasslow, Dorf ) (today a district of the city of Wittstock / Dosse). In 1685 the office gave its shares to the Office Goldbeck, while the Office Goldbeck gave its shares in the village of Blandikow to the Office Wittstock. In 1817 the Wittstock office no longer had any property in Groß Haßlow.
Heinrichsdorf ( colony ) (today part of the municipality of Wittstock / Dosse). In 1776 a colony was established here on the official territory.
Jabel (Jaabel, Dorf und Gut ) (today part of the municipality of Heiligengrabe). The knight's seat with 4 hooves belonged to the Jabel-based bailiff, Schirmann.
Klein Haßlow (Klein Hasslow, Dorf ) (today part of the municipality of Wittstock / Dosse)
Kuhlmühle ( Kuhlmühle, watermill not far from Seveckow ) (today living space in the district of Dranse, town of Wittstock / Dosse)

Lellichow ( Lellchow, Kolonie ) (today a district of the city of Kyritz). The medieval village had fallen in desolation by 1438. The field marrow of the desert village was divided into thirds in the 16th century. In 1697 a water mill (Borksche Mühle) was built here (again), in 1731 an outbuilding was added, and in 1776/7 a Büdner colony. The modern Lellichow was not in the original village location, and the area only comprised a third of the original field mark.

Papenbruch (Papenbrock, Dorf ) (today part of the municipality of Heiligengrabe)

Rote Mühle (Rothe Mühle, Wassermühle ) (today a residential area of the town of Wittstocke / Dosse), 15 pop.

Scharfenberg, Krug and Wassermühle (today two residential areas, Scharfenberg and Scharfenberger Mühle in the town of Wittstock / Dosse , approx. 2.5 km apart )

Teetz ( village ) (today part of the city of Kyritz)

Wernikow ( Wernickow, Dorf ) (district of the municipality of Heiligengrabe)

Amt Wittstock, Amt (merged into Wittstock / Dosse)

Wittstock Castle, houses (located in the area of the former castle, at the southern end of the city, in Wittstock / Dosse)

Wulfersdorf ( village ) (today part of the city of Wittstock / Dosse)

Officials

1603 Isaak Kracht, Colonel and Captain zu Zechlin, Wittstock and Lindow
1632 Gabriel von der Weyde
1775 Friedrich Emanuel Schubarth, bailiff
1798 Mrs. Pistor, councilor
1818 Dr. Freyer, civil servant
1843 BC Freyer

supporting documents

literature

Friedrich Beck , Lieselott Enders , Heinz Braun (with the assistance of Margot Beck, Barbara Merker): Authorities and institutions in the territories of Kurmark, Neumark, Niederlausitz until 1808/16. XII, 702 S., Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv Corporation. (Overview of the holdings of the Brandenburg State Main Archive Potsdam, Part 1, Series of publications: Publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archive Volume 4). Böhlau, Weimar 1964, ISSN 0435-5946 ; 4th
Friedrich Wilhelm August Bratring : Statistical-topographical description of the entire Mark Brandenburg. First volume: The general introduction to the Kurmark, containing the Altmark and Prignitz. XVIII, 494 pp., Maurer, Berlin 1804 Online at Google Books .
Lieselott Enders (arrangement), Klaus Neitmann (ed.): Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg, part I, Prignitz. 1123 S., Potsdam, Verlag in Potsdam, 2012 (publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archive) ISBN 978-3-941919-91-4
Lieselott Enders: The Prignitz story of a Kurmark landscape from the 12th to the 18th century. (Series of publications: Publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives Volume 38). 463 pp., Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2000, ISBN 3-935035-00-4 .
Gerd Heinrich: Administrative structure 1608–1806. Mounted and district of Altmark, Kurmark and Neumark. Historical Atlas of Brandenburg. Publications of the Berlin Historical Commission at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin, 1967.
Berthold Schulze: Property and settlement history statistics of the Brandenburg authorities and cities 1540-1800. Supplement to the Brandenburg office map. (Individual writings of the historical commission for the province of Brandenburg and the imperial capital Berlin, volume 7), 190 pp., Published by Gsellius's commission, Berlin, 1935.

Individual evidence

↑ directory of judgments given in the 1770sten years edicts, patents, mandates, rescripts, and main regulations etc. After ordering of time. Regulations for the permanent judicial offices in the Chur-Mark, ordered for the administration of a prompt and impartial administration of justice in the royal offices from Trinity 1770 on. Ordinance 44 of June 10, 1770 online at Google Books
↑ Ortschafts = directory of the government = district of Potsdam according to the latest district division from 1817, with a note of the district to which the place previously belonged, the quality, number of people, confession, ecclesiastical circumstances, owner and address, along with an alphabetical register. Georg Decker, Berlin. (online at Google Books)
↑ Carl Friedrich Pauli: General Prussian State History of the associated kingdom, electorate and all duchies, principalities, counties and lordships from proven writers and documents up to the current government. Volume 3, publishing and printing by Christoph Peter Franckens, Halle 1762 Online at Google Books , p. 487.
↑ Daniel Fessel Dreyeckichte Foundations of our bliss: Bey the Christian noble burial of ... Barbarae / Gebohrner Flänßin / Des ... Adam von Schlieben ... left by Fraw Wittiben. Which on the 6th of June of the past 1631st year ... fell asleep / and afterwards the 8th of March of this 1632nd year in their bed in the parish church of Cüstrin, Staatsbibliothek Berlin - Digitized Collections
↑ Address calendar, the all royal. Prussia. Lands and provinces, apart from the residences of Berlin, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Sovereign Duchy of Silesia; of the high and low colleges, instances and expeditions located therein, the same of the royal. Servants, magistrates, universities, preachers etc. on the year MDCCLXXV (1775). 582 pp., Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 1775. Online at Sächsische Landesbibliothek Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (additional sheet stapled behind p. 72)
↑ Handbook on the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1798. George Decker, Berlin 1798, p. 58. (online at Google Books)
↑ Handbook on the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1818. George Decker, Berlin 1818, p. 188. (online at Google Books)
↑ Handbook on the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1843. George Decker, Berlin 1843, p. 300.

annotation

^ According to Beck et al.: Authorities and institutions. Pp. 209/210 and Schulze, Brandenburgische Ämter, p. 69, the Wittstock office with its seat at Wittstock Castle was merged with the Goldbeck office in 1786, and the official seat moved from Wittstock Castle to Goldbeck Castle. This is not entirely correct. Contemporary publications continue to list the offices of Goldbeck and Wittstock separately even after 1786, such as Bratring, Krug & Mützell, Ledebur, the handbooks of the royal Prussian court and state and the list of localities. The two offices were now both administered from Goldbeck Castle, but continued to be managed as separate offices by, in some cases, different officials. According to the handbook on the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1798, the Goldbeck office was administered by the District Councilor Pistor, the Wittstock office by Ms. Pistor, District Councilor (!).

53.163611111111 12.485555555556Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ N , 12 ° 29 ′ E

[Verordnung1770-2] rectory of judgments given in the 1770sten years edicts, patents, mandates, rescripts, and main regulations etc. After ordering of time. Regulations for the permanent judicial offices in the Chur-Mark, ordered for the administration of a prompt and impartial administration of justice in the royal offices from Trinity 1770 on. Ordinance 44 of June 10, 1770 online at Google Books

[Ortschaftsverzeichnis-3] Ortschafts = directory of the government = district of Potsdam according to the latest district division from 1817, with a note of the district to which the place previously belonged, the quality, number of people, confession, ecclesiastical circumstances, owner and address, along with an alphabetical register. Georg Decker, Berlin. (online at Google Books)

[Staatsgeschichte-487-4] Carl Friedrich Pauli: General Prussian State History of the associated kingdom, electorate and all duchies, principalities, counties and lordships from proven writers and documents up to the current government. Volume 3, publishing and printing by Christoph Peter Franckens, Halle 1762 Online at Google Books , p. 487.

[Fessel-5] Daniel Fessel Dreyeckichte Foundations of our bliss: Bey the Christian noble burial of ... Barbarae / Gebohrner Flänßin / Des ... Adam von Schlieben ... left by Fraw Wittiben. Which on the 6th of June of the past 1631st year ... fell asleep / and afterwards the 8th of March of this 1632nd year in their bed in the parish church of Cüstrin, Staatsbibliothek Berlin - Digitized Collections

[Adresskalender1775-6] Address calendar, the all royal. Prussia. Lands and provinces, apart from the residences of Berlin, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Sovereign Duchy of Silesia; of the high and low colleges, instances and expeditions located therein, the same of the royal. Servants, magistrates, universities, preachers etc. on the year MDCCLXXV (1775). 582 pp., Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 1775. Online at Sächsische Landesbibliothek Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (additional sheet stapled behind p. 72)

[Handbuch1798-7] Handbook on the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1798. George Decker, Berlin 1798, p. 58. (online at Google Books)

[Handbuch1818-8] Handbook on the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1818. George Decker, Berlin 1818, p. 188. (online at Google Books)

[Handbuch1843-9] Handbook on the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1843. George Decker, Berlin 1843, p. 300.

[1] According to Beck et al.: Authorities and institutions. Pp. 209/210 and Schulze, Brandenburgische Ämter, p. 69, the Wittstock office with its seat at Wittstock Castle was merged with the Goldbeck office in 1786, and the official seat moved from Wittstock Castle to Goldbeck Castle. This is not entirely correct. Contemporary publications continue to list the offices of Goldbeck and Wittstock separately even after 1786, such as Bratring, Krug & Mützell, Ledebur, the handbooks of the royal Prussian court and state and the list of localities. The two offices were now both administered from Goldbeck Castle, but continued to be managed as separate offices by, in some cases, different officials. According to the handbook on the royal Prussian court and state for the year 1798, the Goldbeck office was administered by the District Councilor Pistor, the Wittstock office by Ms. Pistor, District Councilor (!).