Office of Plauen

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The Plauen office was a territorial administrative unit in the Vogtland district of the Electorate of Saxony, which was converted into a kingdom in 1806 . Between 1657 and 1718 the Office for Albertine belonged Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Zeitz .

Until the end of the Saxon constitution of offices in 1856, as the Saxon office, it was the spatial reference point for the demand for sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , jurisdiction and military service .

Geographical expansion

The area of ​​the Plauen office comprised the north of the Saxon Vogtland with the towns of Plauen, Mühltroff, Elsterberg, Netzschkau, Mylau, Reichenbach, Lengenfeld, Treuen, Auerbach and Falkenstein. In the east it bordered the Western Ore Mountains and the Zwickau area, in the west and north on the Thuringian Vogtland. The largest rivers in the area are the Weisse Elster and the Göltzsch . The official area also included the exclaves Hundsgrün, Werda, Kottengrün, the city of Gefell, Blintendorf, Sparnberg and Blankenberg. The last two places are on the Saale on the border with the former Principality of Bayreuth .

The majority of the former administrative locations today form the northern part of the Saxon Vogtland district . Herlagrün is now in the Saxon district of Zwickau . The places Dröswein, Langenbuch and Stelzen are today like the former exclaves Gefell, Blintendorf, Sparnberg and Blankenberg in the Thuringian Saale-Orla district , Pansdorf, Tremnitz and Sachswitz are in the Thuringian district of Greiz .

Adjacent administrative units

Office break Principality of Reuss older line Zwickau Office
Principality of Reuss younger line Neighboring communities Office Wiesenburg
Principality of Bayreuth ( Landeshauptmannschaft Hof ) Office Voigtsberg Schwarzenberg district office

history

The rulership of Plauen was a Bohemian fiefdom, which was owned by the bailiffs of Plauen (Haus Weida) from 1327 . As a result of the Vogtland War (1354–1357), the Plauen bailiffs lost almost all of their property. The cities of Mylau and Reichenbach of the younger line fell to the Bohemian king, who justified his claim with a deed of donation from Emperor Friedrich II. From 1212. In addition, they had to recognize the Wettins as rulers of the rest of the property. In 1466 the rule of Plauen came to the Wettins. Since the division of Leipzig in 1485, the current office belonged to the Ernestine line of the Wettins. In the 16th century, the rulers of Elsterberg (formerly owned by the Lobdeburgers ), Treuen , Auerbach (both were formerly owned by the Burgraves of Dohna ), Mylau with Reichenbach, Mühltroff and Falkenstein (all three offices were offices of the Wettins) were added to the Plauen office .

In 1529 the Reformation was introduced in the Vogtland . Due to the defeat of the Ernestines in the Schmalkaldic War , the three Vogtland offices of Pausa , Plauen and Voigtsberg came into possession of the Bohemian crown in 1547 . In 1548 the Lords of Plauen bought the Plauen office back as a Bohemian fief.

In 1569 it was bought by the Albertine elector from the heavily indebted bailiffs of Plauen and it became part of the newly founded Vogtland district within the electorate of Saxony . From 1657 to 1718 the three offices of the Vogtland district belonged to the Albertine secondary school principality of Saxony-Zeitz . During this time, the Saxon elector set up the Reichenbach office to exercise his remaining powers in the Vogtland . After 1764 the Plauen office was mostly mentioned together with the Pausa office .

After the Congress of Vienna , the office's exclaves, i.e. H. the town of Gefell and the towns of Blintendorf , Sparnberg and Blankenberg were included as exclaves in the Prussian district of Ziegenrück , which was itself an exclave within the province of Saxony .

In 1856, 8 court districts were formed from the Plauen office. The districts of Plauen, Pausa, Elsterberg and Reichenbach became part of the Plauen administration in 1875 . The court districts Auerbach / V., Lengenfeld, Falkenstein and Treuen became part of the Auerbach administration in 1875 .

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