Office Zörbig

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The Zörbig office was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony in the Leipzig district . Between 1657 and 1738 belonged Office for Albertine Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Merseburg .

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 office Zörbig was in the northwest of the Leipzig district . It was an exclave of the Leipzig district and separated like a wedge the Principality of Anhalt in the north from the Duchy of Magdeburg in the south. Only in the east was it connected to the Electorate of Saxony via the Bitterfeld Office (part of the Kurkreis ) . In the north, the Fuhne formed the border with the Principality of Anhalt. The Repau exclave was north of the Fuhne in the Principality of Anhalt. Hinsdorf lay to the west of the Office and was by an exclave of the Bishopric of Merseburg associated Office Lauchstaedt separated from it.

The official area is now in the south-east of Saxony-Anhalt and, apart from Hinsdorf (in the Saale district ), belongs to the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district . Most of the official places today belong to the city of Zörbig.

Adjacent administrative units

Office Lauchstädt (Rittergut Cösseln , exclave) Principality of Anhalt
Amt Delitzsch ( manor Ostrau , exclave) Neighboring communities Office Bitterfeld
Saalkreis ( Duchy of Magdeburg , 1648 to the Electorate of Brandenburg , 1701 to the Kingdom of Prussia )

history

Zörbig Castle was already owned by the Wettins around the year 1000 . In 1242 it came to the Archbishopric of Magdeburg and finally passed into Wettin possession in 1350/55. After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the office belonged to the Albertine line of the Wettins.

The Zörbig office had almost always been pledged since 1501. In 1535 it prescribed Duke George, Duke of Saxony the bailiff Christoph von Carlowitz for 6,000 guilders 12-year non-redeemable for repurchase . After Duke Georg's death, Duke Heinrich V of Saxony asked Carlowitz to relinquish Zörbig's castle and office, against which he obtained a decision from the Imperial Court of Justice.

Between 1657 and 1738 the office belonged to the secondary education principality of Saxony-Merseburg . In 1691, Duke August von Sachsen-Merseburg-Zörbig received the office, the city and the castle Zörbig from his father Christian I von Sachsen-Merseburg as apanage , but it remained dependent on the Merseburg main line. August took up his residence in Zörbig.

Some Freihöfe in the official places Schrenz , Werben and Löbersdorf belonged to the office Petersberg , which the Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong sold with all accessories in the year 1697 to Brandenburg-Prussia . As enclaves in the Electoral Saxon area, these courtyards now belonged to the Prussian Saalkreis in the Duchy of Magdeburg . Through the Peace of Tilsit they came to the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 and were annexed to the canton Löbejün , which was in the Halle district of the Saale department . After the defeat of Napoléon and the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1813, the Prussian king and his "old provinces" also took possession of the Saalkreis and the Freihöfe in Schrenz, Werben and Löbersdorf again.

As a result of the defeat of the Kingdom of Saxony in the Wars of Liberation , the Congress of Vienna decided in 1815 to assign territories to the Kingdom of Prussia . The office of Zörbig and the Prussian barracks in Schrenz, Werben and Löbersdorf were assigned to the newly formed district of Bitterfeld in the Prussian province of Saxony in 1816. The administration of the office still took some time.

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Bailiffs

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden, inventory 10690 (Reichskammergericht), No. 5.
  2. ^ The Petersberg Office on the homepage of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives
  3. ^ Description of the Petersberg Office on p. 128
  4. ^ Description of the Saale Department
  5. ^ The district of Bitterfeld in the municipality register 1900