Office Zwenkau
The Office Zwenkau was in Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Merseburg Situated territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony . Until it was ceded to Prussia in 1815, the office was the spatial reference point for claiming sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , judiciary and military service . Since 1655 the Zwenkau office was integrated into the Lützen office .
Geographical location
The office of Zwenkau was in the Leipzig lowland bay. The White Elster flowed through it.
Adjacent gentlemen
| Saxony-Merseburg ( Office Lützen ) | District Office Leipzig | |
| Saxony-Merseburg ( Office Lützen ) |
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District Office Leipzig |
| Office Pegau |
history
Zwenkau is one of the oldest cities in today's Saxony ; The city was first mentioned in a document in 974 as a Slavic settlement and referred to as Civitas in the Gau Chutizi . Emperor Otto II transferred the city to the diocese of Merseburg at that time .
The office of Zwenkau had been an episcopal office of the Merseburg bishopric since the 13th century . After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the office was counted under the influence of the Albertine line of the Wettins . As a result of the secularization of the Merseburg diocese, the diocese and its offices came to the Electorate of Saxony in 1547 and became a neighboring country in 1561 .
The Merseburg office in Zwenkau became part of the Lützen office in 1655 . Between 1657 and 1738 the office of Lützen with Zwenkau belonged to the Wettin secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg . After the defeat of Napoleon and the allied Kingdom of Saxony , the Kingdom of Saxony had to cede a large part of its territory to the Kingdom of Prussia following a resolution by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 . The office Lützen was divided. The larger western part was annexed to the Prussian province of Saxony ( district Merseburg ), the smaller eastern part came to the Saxon office of Leipzig . Like the eastern part, the Zwenkau office remained with Saxony and was annexed to the Pegau office in 1819 .
Components
- Cities
- Official Villages
- Zeschwitz (proportionately)
literature
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Jäschke: Kursächsischer Amtatlas 1790 . Gumnior, 2009. ISBN
- Karlheinz Blaschke, (Ed.): Historical local directory of Saxony , Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-15-8
Web links
- Office Lützen in the Saxon Main State Archives
- City of Zwenkau in the Saxon Main State Archives
- The offices of Lützen and Zwenkau in the digital historical directory of Saxony
- The Office Lützen in the State Archive of Saxony-Anhalt (PDF; 131 kB)