Dominion Sonnewalde

The rule of Sonnewalde , or Standesherrschaft Sonnewalde , was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony, which was converted into a kingdom in 1806 . Until it was assigned to Prussia in 1815, it was under the higher court of the Kurkreis .

In its constitutional position, it wavered between the Saxon Kurkreis in relation to the fiefs and the Margraviate Niederlausitz because of the appraisal. Within the Electorate of Saxony it was raised as a free class rule and ranked higher than the manors .

Geographical location

The area of the registrar's rule Sonnewalde lay in the west of Niederlausitz between Luckau in the north and Finsterwalde in the south. The southern border of rulership was formed by the Kleine Elster . The western part of the Dobrilugk office was separated from the rest of the Lower Lusatia margravate through the dominion . The official area is now in the state of Brandenburg and belongs to the Elbe-Elster district .

Adjacent administrative units

	Markgraftum Niederlausitz ( City of Luckau )
Office close		Markgraftum Niederlausitz ( Knighthood Luckau )
	Dobrilugk Office	Margraviate of Lower Lusatia ( registrar of Drehna )

history

Margraviate of Lower Lusatia

The dominion of Sonnewalde was first mentioned in 1255, Sonnewalde Castle in 1301. At that time it was part of the Lower Lusatia margravate and was a fiefdom of the Bohemian crown . During this time the lords of Ihleburg owned the estate. Botho the Elder from Ihleburg (1379–1430) moved to Sonnewalde in 1414. His son of the same name (1430-1480) was from 1450 governor of Lusatia .

Electorate of Saxony

The rule came to the Electorate of Saxony through purchase in 1477 . While the rulership was now part of the Wettin electorate of Saxony with regard to the fiefs , it remained part of the Lower Lusatia margraviate with regard to the appraisal . Elector of Saxony fief in 1481 Knight Hans von Minckwitz with the rule Sonnewalde . Since the division of Leipzig in 1485, the rule belonged to the Albertine line of the Wettins . Hans von Minckwitz's sons were ardent supporters of the Reformation and in 1522 appointed a Lutheran preacher in Sonnewalde . The von Minckwitz brothers also owned the neighboring Drehna and Finsterwalde rulers (as a Saxon fiefdom).

House of Solms under the rule of the Electorate of Saxony

Sonnewalde Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker Collection , destroyed by arson in 1949

1537 sold the von Minckwitz the rule Sonnewalde to Count Philipp von Solms-Lich , whereby the branch line Solms -Sonnewalde was established.

After the Schmalkaldic War in 1547 ( Wittenberg surrender ), the Albertine Duchy of Saxony received the Kurkreis and its offices from the Ernestines . The already Albertine rule of Sonnewalde came under the suzerainty of the now also Albertine spa district in the Electorate of Saxony .

Count Otto zu Solms-Laubach (1550-1612) was the first to reside in Sonnewalde. In 1582 he laid the foundation stone for the construction of the castle. In 1596 he bought the Baruth estate from those of Schlieben . In 1602, due to the hereditary brotherhood, he also took control of Wildenfels (southwest of Zwickau ). Until 1815 the rule of Sonnewalde was ruled by different lines of the House of Solms.

The Electoral Saxon judicial officer in the Schlieben office and his colleague, the administrator, were also responsible in court and administrative matters to a limited extent for the Baruth class and the Sonnewalde family rulership of the Counts of Solms , which belonged to the neighboring Margraviate of Niederlausitz .

House of Solms under Prussian rule

As a result of the defeat of the Kingdom of Saxony , the Congress of Vienna in 1815 decided to assign territories to the Kingdom of Prussia . a. concerned the entire Kurkreis with its offices and lords. The Standesherrschaft Sonnewalde was the newly formed district Luckau in the administrative district of Frankfurt the Prussian province of Brandenburg assigned. The Prussian representative at the Congress of Vienna was Prince Karl August von Hardenberg and his assistant was Count zu Solms-Sonnewalde .

After the Solmser line that ruled in Sonnewalde died out, rule was lent to the line of "Solms and Tecklenburg" after 1814. The possession of the registrar of Sonnewalde granted the House of Solms a virile vote on the gentleman's bench of the provincial parishes of the Kurmark Brandenburg and Niederlausitz as well as a hereditary seat in the Prussian manor house .