The Ballei Sachsen is first mentioned in 1214 and was later administered by a Landkomtur based on the Teutonic Order Commander Lucklum in what is today the district of Wolfenbüttel ( Lower Saxony ). It was one of the twelve sub-districts of the Teutonic Knight Order. The Ballei comprised Lower and Upper Saxony , at that time the area between the Weser and Oder . The Ballei was the central administrative seat of the coming:
Already in the middle of the 14th century one of the great landowners of today's Central Germany , its development was largely complete by this time. During the Reformation, Saxony became a Protestant Lutheran Ballei and was dissolved in 1809 through secularization .
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