Christoph von Dohna (Upper Lusatia)

Christoph von Dohna († 1560 in Bautzen ) belonged to the Upper Lusatian noble family of the Dohna . He owned extensive estates in the west of the Margraviate , which he initially managed together with his brother Johann, and then alone after his death. He had his headquarters in Königsbrück .

In 1549 he was the Czech King Ferdinand I to the bailiff of the Oberlausitz appointed. In this capacity he was one of the few local nobles and the first Protestant. Nevertheless, his peers and also the Upper Lusatian cities were very dissatisfied with his administration. Dohna neglected the holding of court days and the office of the Bautzen Oberamt on the Ortenburg , so that official business there was only carried out with a long delay. In addition, he left some offices vacant in order to be able to put the official differences (a kind of fee) in his own pocket. The stalls of the Oberlausitz sued Christoph von Dohna therefore in 1560 at the Royal Court of Appeal in Prague. Before the trial had opened, the governor died during a service in Bautzen's Petridom . Contemporaries believed that Dohna was struck by the wrath of God. He did not leave any descendants entitled to inherit and his estates fell to the Bohemian crown as settled fiefs .

literature

• Hermann Knothe : Documentary basis for a legal history of Upper Lusatia from the earliest times to the middle of the 16th century . Goerlitz 1877.
• Hermann Knothe: History of the Upper Lusatian nobility and their goods from the 13th to the end of the 16th century . Leipzig 1879.