Reign of Fahner

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The Fahner rule was a territorial administrative unit of the Ernestine duchies . It consisted of three villages northwest of Gotha, all of which were initially under the rule of the Lords of Vanre . In 1412/34 the three places of the Fahner rule came to the Lords of Seebach . State sovereignty had been with the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha since 1640, with the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg from 1672 and with the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha from 1826 .

Until the abolition of patrimonial jurisdiction in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha in 1830 and the associated dissolution, the Fahner rule formed the spatial reference point for the demand for sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , jurisdiction and army successes .

Geographical location

The area of ​​the Fahner rule lay in the southern Thuringian Basin north of Gotha . It was northeast of the Fahner Höhe . The places of the Fahner rule are today in the center of Thuringia . The communities Großfahner and Gierstädt with its district Kleinfahner are located in the north-east of the Gotha district .

Adjacent administrative units

Since the founding of the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg in 1672 and the division of the state in 1680, the places of the Fahner rule bordered on the following administrative units:

history

Lords of Vanre / von Fahner

The places Großfahner, Kleinfahner and Gierstädt on the border to the Kurmainzisch - Erfurtischen area became part of the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the 13th century . They were under the rule of the Lords of Vanre (von Fahner), who were treasurers and treasurers of the Thuringian landgraves. The family of the Lords von Fahner has been documented in Großfahner since the 12th century. They built a moated castle in the place. In 1257 the lords of Fahner became feudal men and in 1370 heirs to the Counts of Schwarzburg .

Lords of Seebach and sovereignty of the Ernestine duchies

In 1412 the lords of Seebach were given the loan to Großfahner, Kleinfahner and Gierstädt, in 1434 Thilo von Seebach bought Großfahner and Kleinfahner. The property remained in the family's hands until 1945.

As part of the Landgraviate of Thuringia, sovereignty over the three Fahner towns came after the Leipzig division of the Wettin possessions in 1485 to the Electorate of Saxony of the Ernestines . As a result of the Schmalkaldic War , the Ernestines lost their electoral dignity in 1547 , which unified their possessions in the Duchy of Saxony . After several inheritance divisions of the Ernestine duchies , the places of the Fahner rule came to the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha during the Ernestine division in 1640 , which in 1672 became the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg . After the “ Gotha Main Recess ” in 1680, the three noble towns of the Lords of Seebach remained with the greatly reduced Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg.

After the moated castle in Großfahner burned down in 1649, Alexander Thilo von Seebach had a new castle built in the second half of the 17th century, both parts of which were called the "slate castle" and the "brick castle". The fruit cultivation , introduced by the landlord Friedrich Wilhelm von Seebach and the pastor of Kleinfahner, Johann Volkmar Sickler , in the year 1791 is of great economic importance for the three Fahner villages, which have since been known as "Fahnersche Kirschdörfer".

After the Saxon-Gotha-Altenburg line had died out, the Hildburghausen Partition Treaty of November 12, 1826 resulted in a comprehensive restructuring of the Ernestine duchies . The Fahner rule came as part of Saxe-Gotha to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , whose two parts of the country were henceforth governed in personal union. During the administrative reform that took place in 1830, the patrimonial jurisdiction of the Lords of Seebach was abolished and the three Fahner towns were incorporated into the rulers' Justice Office Tonna.

The Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha was divided into independent cities and district offices in 1858. The Tonna Justice Office was subordinated to the Gotha District Office in administrative tasks . The Tonna Justice Office initially continued to function as a judicial authority. It was enlarged in 1858 to include the Herbsleben district court district and in 1869 to include the district of the Volkenroda judicial office , which as an exclave had previously maintained its own administration. In 1879 the Gotha Justice Offices were converted into local courts. The Tonna District Court took over the judicial tasks of the Tonna Justice Office.

Associated places

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Tonna Justice Office in the Thuringia Archives
  2. ^ Homepage of the Herbsleben community
  3. ^ The Volkenroda Justice Office in the Thuringia Archives

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