Brick home manor

The manorial brick home , usually as a court Ziegelheim or Dingstuhl Ziegelheim referred was one until the 19th century under the patrimonial jurisdiction of the lords of Schoenburg standing under County electoral Saxon suzerainty . The seven fully or partially associated places are today in the Thuringian district of Altenburger Land . Ecclesiastically, the area is still part of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony due to its earlier affiliation with Saxony .

Geographical location

State map of the Thuringian district of Altenburger Land, in the southeast purple the area of the Ziegelheim court belonging to Saxony

The contiguous area of the former lordship of Ziegelheim with the places Ziegelheim with Thiergarten , Uhlmannsdorf , Niederarnsdorf and Gähsnitz / Jesenitz and the territorially separated exclaves of the local parts of Frohnsdorf and Heiersdorf is located in the south of today's Altenburger Land district . The area that belonged to Saxony until 1952, the exclaves of which were exchanged for Thuringia in 1928, protruded into the Altenburger Land in a wedge shape. Only in the south near the Oberwiera district of Harthau was it connected to the Saxon or Schönburg area. The former territory with its borders is still visible today in the area of the Protestant parish of Ziegelheim, as this is still part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony, in contrast to the surrounding Thuringian towns.

The core area of the contiguous area of the former lordship of Ziegelheim extended in the west to the local border of Oberarnsdorf , in the north almost to the route of the disused railway line Altenburg-Langenleuba-Oberhain and in the northeast to the Wiera . In the east was the border between Ziegelheim and Gähsnitz on the Saxon side or Hinteruhlmannsdorf (today Engertsdorf) and Heiersdorf on the Altenburg or Thuringian side. In the corridor of Gähsnitz there were two exclaves, which belonged with two goods of the place as "Jesenitz" to the then Altenburg and Thuringian place Röhrsdorf . Two Saxon exclaves, on the other hand, were again in Altenburg and Thuringia.

The Frohnsdorf exclave consisted of an estate and the clay pit. It was located in the southeast of the place between Frohnsdorf in the west and Flemmingen in the east. The Heiersdorf exclave (Saxon part) included a farm west of the Wiera and two uninhabited plots east of the Wiera. In Gähsnitz / Jesenitz there was a Saxon exclave in the Altenburg area to the east and south of the town, while there was an Altenburg enclave to the west and north of the town. With the exception of the Frohnsdorfer part and including the historically part of Thuringia Heiersdorf (thür. Part) and Hinteruhlmannsdorf (renamed Engertsdorf in 1950), the area of the former court of Ziegelheim formed the municipality of Ziegelheim in the Thuringian district of Altenburger Land until 2018. Since July 6, 2018, the area has belonged entirely to the municipality of Nobitz in the Altenburger Land district.

Adjacent administrative units

The places of the lordship of Ziegelheim were almost completely surrounded by the Altenburg district office of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg . Only in the south-west near Gähsnitz did the area border on the Schönburg rule of Remse , which, however, was under electoral suzerainty as a feudal rule .

history

Manor and Lords of Ziegelheim

The founding of Ziegelheim and its first church can be assumed to have occurred between 1170 and 1200. Ziegelheim was first mentioned in a document in Waldenburg on March 23, 1254. A Hugo, plebanus de Cygilheim (pastor of Ziegelheim) was mentioned as a witness there. As a result, a church and a pastor in Ziegelheim were already proven in this early period. The Ziegelheim manor and the “de Cigilheim” family were proven to be a manor in 1261. The castle complex, built as a dry fortification, was located north of the churchyard. After the noble family von Ziegelheim died out in the middle of the 14th century, the manor was dissolved in the 15th century. The castle tower was converted into a church tower. On April 19, 1544, Christoph von Carlowitz received the imperial approval in Speyer to unite the coat of arms with that of the extinct noble family von Ziegelheim .

The Ziegelheim Vorwerk as a personal treasure of Anna von Schönburg, b. from Rieneck

The Ziegelheim Vorwerk , which is already mentioned in 1435 as a widow's residence and personal property, was of further importance for the Ziegelheim manor . At that time, Ziegelheim was in the hands of the Lords of Schönburg as a Wettin - Saxon fiefdom . The neighboring imperial direct rule Waldenburg came after the legacy with the Lords of Waldenburg in 1378 to the Schoenburg rule . The villages Ziegelheim, Thiergarten, Niederarnsdorf and Uhlmannsdorf belonged to the Vorwerk Ziegelheim. With the marriage of Ernst I von Schönburg (around 1458–1489) and Anna von Rieneck (1458–1525), the bride received the brick home and the associated villages as personal items in 1480. After the death of her husband in 1489, she officially became a widow's residence in Ziegelheim as the Vorwerk of Waldenburg Castle , which she probably never lived in. Until 1512 she held the reign over the Schönburg dominions of Glauchau and Waldenburg. She carried out government affairs on behalf of her sons until 1518. Anna von Schönburg was raised strictly Catholic in her childhood in the County of Rieneck in what is now Lower Franconia . The construction of the Marien-pilgrimage church in the east of the village fell into the 45-year period of the possession of Ziegelheim . This stone church, built between 1507 and 1518, replaced a smaller wooden pilgrimage church on a pilgrimage route that contained a statue of the Virgin Mary as a shrine. Anna von Schönburg immortalized herself in the new building with her von Rieneck family coat of arms, the donated relics and the church furnishings. In addition to Ziegelheim, the parish Ziegelheim in the Superintendentur Waldenburg also included Niederarnsdorf, Thiergarten, Uhlmannsdorf and a portion of Heiersdorf (Hoyersdorf) as well as the subsidiary church in Franconia . On December 13, 1525 Anna "Gratiosa" von Schönburg died, whereby the personal property and the widow's residence Ziegelheim with the associated villages fell back to the Schönburg family. Ziegelheim was owned by Anna von Schönburg for 45 years.

The Ziegelheim court under Schoenburg rule

Since the Ziegelheim manor was a fiefdom from the Electorate of Saxony, the Schönburgers were not allowed to merge with their direct imperial Schönburg dominions. Since Ziegelheim a altschriftsässiges was manor, the landlord had the upper and Erbgerichtsbarkeit over his subjects. The Dingstuhl Ziegelheim included the places Ziegelheim with one estate in Frohnsdorf and two estates in Heiersdorf (historically referred to as Hoyersdorf or Heuersdorf), Thiergarten, Uhlmannsdorf, Niederarnsdorf and Gähsnitz (Saxon share). The assignment of the lordship of Ziegelheim changed several times due to multiple changes of ownership within the von Schönburg family. In the 16th century it was assigned to the Schönburg dominion of Waldenburg . As a result of the inheritance divisions within the Schönburg lordship, the Ziegelheim court belonged to the upper, princely line of Schönburg-Waldenburg. When the upper line Schönburg-Waldenburg was divided in 1702, the Ziegelheim manor was added to the newly founded Schönburg manor Stein , from which it was separated again in 1813. The lordship of Ziegelheim did not have a knightly seat , but only consisted of the feudal relationship and the payment of interest. Therefore it was referred to as “dry manor”, which was only expressed in the sum of land and court powers without stately residential and farm buildings. After 1813, the Ziegelheim patrimonial court was administered by the Schönburg Justice Office in Remse . The jurisdiction of the Ziegelheim manor only passed to the Remse Justice Office when the judiciary in Saxony was nationalized in 1847.

End of the brick home rule

The relationship between the Kingdom of Saxony and the House of Schönburg was reorganized in 1835. The Schönburg-Waldenburg territories under the Saxon feudal lordship were placed under the administration of the royal Saxon office of Zwickau with the lordship of Tirschheim with Reichenbach and Ziegelheim . On September 25, 1856, the judicial powers of the Ziegelheim manor, as well as those of the Remse manor, were ceded to the Saxon state. The associated places were administered by the Remse court office until the administration in the Kingdom of Saxony was reorganized in 1875 .

Further development of political affiliation to the present

From 1875, the places of the former lordship of Ziegelheim belonged to the Zwickau administration . After an administrative reform was carried out in the area of the Schönburg recession in 1878, they came with the entire former judicial district of Remse in 1880 to the newly founded Saxon governorate of Glauchau . In 1928 there was an exchange of territory and a border adjustment between the Free State of Saxony and the State of Thuringia . In the Thuringian-Saxon State Treaty of December 7, 1927, the areas that changed countries were set in advance (map with the exchange areas). The draft law dates from March 15, 1928. As a result, the Saxon parts of Frohnsdorf and Heiersdorf, which had previously belonged to Ziegelheim and which were enclosed as exclaves by Thuringian territory, were given to Thuringia and united with the respective Thuringian places in the Altenburg district . In return, the previous Thuringian enclaves of Jesenitz were merged with the Saxon Gähsnitz.

On July 1, 1950 Uhlmannsdorf and Niederarnsdorf were incorporated into Ziegelheim on the Saxon side. The Thuringian villages Hinteruhlmannsdorf and Heiersdorf were merged on the same day to form the new community Engertsdorf , the district Hinteruhlmannsdorf has since been given the name Engertsdorf assigned to the community . As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the previously Saxon communities of Ziegelheim and Gähsnitz came to the previously Thuringian district of Altenburg in 1952 , which was combined with previously Saxon areas to form the Leipzig district . Gähsnitz was incorporated into Ziegelheim on January 1, 1957 and Engertsdorf on January 1, 1973. The municipality of Ziegelheim thus also comprised districts that were historically part of Thuringia.

On May 17, 1990, the Altenburg district was renamed the Altenburg district. For Reunification the community brick home was part of the district Altenburg by ländereinführungsgesetz the re-established country Thuringia awarded. The municipality of Ziegelheim has been part of the Altenburger Land district since the Thuringian district reform of July 1, 1994. "With the incorporation of the municipalities of Ziegelheim and Frohnsdorf into the larger municipality of Nobitz on July 6, 2018, the historical boundaries of the former lordship of Ziegelheim disappeared completely. They are now only Recognizable in the fact that the Protestant parishes of Ziegelheim (with Uhlmannsdorf and Niederarnsdorf), Oberwiera (with Gähsnitz) and Niederwiera (with Heiersdorf) belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony , as the area looks like a wedge to the north into the parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany Altenburger Land protrudes into it.

Associated places

Gähsnitz (Saxon share)
Niederarnsdorf
Thiergarten
Uhlmannsdorf
Ziegelheim with the exclaves Frohndorf (Saxon share) (one estate and the clay pit) and Heiersdorf (Saxon share) (one estate and two undeveloped parcels)