Finsterwalde Office

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Finsterwalde Castle, seat of the Finsterwalde Office
Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly: Of the Meissen district of Noerdliche Aemter Finsterwalda, Senftenberg, Torgau, Muehlberg, Oschatz and Grossenhayn. Nro. 358 from 1795/1796

The Finsterwalde office was an electoral Saxon administrative unit of the Meißnische Kreis , which was created in 1625 with the acquisition of the small dominion of Finsterwalde . In 1689 a part of the villages belonging to the office was assigned to the Dobrilugk office ( Markgraftum Niederlausitz ). In 1830 the Finsterwalde office was dissolved and the seven villages belonging to the office were also assigned to the Dobrilugk office. In 1848 this association was reversed and the Finsterwalde Rent Office was created to a slightly different extent. This rent office was dissolved in 1874.

Until it was ceded to Prussia in 1815, the Finsterwalde Office, as the Saxon office, was the spatial reference point for the demand for sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , jurisdiction and military service .

Geographical location

The Finsterwalde office was in the northeast of the Meißnische Kreis and separated the Dobrilugk office of the Lower Lusatia margraviate into a western and an eastern part. The area was an Electoral Saxon office in western Lower Lusatia north of the Black Elster . The Kleine Elster flowed through the territory in the north . The villages of the office were in the northern part. In the southern part there was the Grünhaus forest and an exclave of the Doberlug district of Lower Lusatia .

The Finsterwalde office was completely in what is now the Elbe-Elster district ( Brandenburg ), while the Finsterwalde rent office extended with small parts into the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district (also Brandenburg).

Adjacent administrative units

Dominion Sonnewalde Margraviate of Lower Lusatia ( registrar of Drehna ) Margraviate of Lower Lusatia ( registrar of Drehna )
Markgraftum Niederlausitz ( Office Dobrilugk (western part)) Neighboring communities Markgraftum Niederlausitz ( Amt Dobrilugk (eastern part))
Amt Liebenwerda and Amt Dobrilugk (exclave) Grossenhain office Senftenberg Office

history

The rule of Finsterwalde in Lower Lusatia originated around the castle Finsterwalde, first mentioned in 1301. Already in 1474 the places Lichterfeld, Lindthal, Massen, Naundorf, Nehesdorf and Tanneberg belonged to it. Betten was not named as it was mortgaged at the time. The pledge was apparently redeemed by 1530, when it is included in the descriptions of the rulership.

The first documented owners are those of Landsberg from 1282 to before 1324. In 1324, Burgrave Albrecht von Altenburg and Otto the Elder of Altenburg owned the rulership, then (1326) a Biterolf followed. Those of Ileburg are documented as owners from 1353 to 1368, those of Rodstock from 1375 to 1380. They were followed by Landvogt Hans von Polenz (1416 to after 1421) and von Pack (1425), who sold Finsterwalde's castle and town in 1425 to the Saxon Elector Friedrich I (the arguable). From 1437 to the 16th century the rule was pledged to the von Maltitz . After the division of Leipzig in 1485, the office belonged to the Albertine line of the Wettins .

From 1519 to 1531 the von Minckwitz - Drehna ruled as a Saxon fief. They were followed by the von Dieskau family (from 1531), who sold it to the Saxon Elector Johann Georg I in 1625 . Included in this purchase were the villages of Lieskau and Schacksdorf, which the von Dieskau received from Dobrilugk monastery in 1534 as a pledge; further the villages of Gröbitz and Ponnsdorf from the property of the Drehna lordship and the village of Gohra, which they had bought in 1619 from the von Kottwitz family. In 1689 the former monastery villages, the Drehnaer villages and Gohra were attached to the Dobrilugk office. The Finsterwalde office initially remained in place to a reduced extent.

Between 1657 and 1738 belonged to the Office Finsterwalde for Albertine Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Merseburg . In 1815, the Finsterwalde office came to the Kingdom of Prussia as a result of the Congress of Vienna and was incorporated into the newly founded Luckau district of the province of Brandenburg .

Corresponding places in the overview

According to the Kursächsisches Ämteratlas of 1790 and the historical local dictionary , the Finsterwalde office comprised the following locations:

the following places only belonged to the Finsterwalde office from 1625 to 1689

In 1830 the Finsterwalde office was dissolved and the villages were assigned to the Dobrilugk Remtamt. In 1848 the association was reversed and the old office was rebuilt on a larger scale as Finsterwalde Rent Office. In addition to the originally seven villages of the old Finsterwalde office, the villages became the new Rentamt

assigned. In 1874 the Finsterwalde Rent Office was finally closed.

literature

  • Karlheinz Blaschke & Uwe Ulrich Jäschke: Kursächsischer Ämteratlas 1790 , Verlag Klaus Gumnior Chemnitz 2009.
  • Rudolf Lehmann : Historical local lexicon for Niederlausitz Volume 1, introduction and overviews. The districts of Luckau, Lübben and Calau. 153 pp., Marburg 1979 ISBN 3-921254-96-5