Lordship of Sorau
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The Lordship of Sorau was a domain around the city of Sorau (Żary) in eastern Lower Lusatia . The area is now in the Polish Lubusz Voivodeship .
history
A pagus Zara ( Gau Sorau ) was mentioned as early as 1007 in the chronicle of Thietmar von Merseburg under Bolesław Chrobry of Poland .
In 1260 Sorau received city rights. In 1280 the rule passed to the Pack family. In 1355 the lords of Bieberstein acquired the town and rule of Sorau, initially as a Silesian fiefdom. In 1381 a land register of the Sorau rulership was drawn up, with the ownership and tax relationships in the villages. In 1364 Sorau came under Bohemian rule, in 1490 under Saxon and in 1512 again under Bohemian.
Since 1524 under Bohemian rule, the Reformation was introduced by the von Bieberstein family in the Sorau rule. The Lower Sorbian translation of the New Testament by Mikławš Jakubica was probably made in the Sorau area until 1548.
In 1551, after the von Bieberstein family had died out, the rule fell back to King Ferdinand I as a settled fiefdom. He sold it in 1557 with the Triebel reign to the Breslau bishop Balthasar von Promnitz , in whose family the reign remained.
In 1735 it came under Saxon sovereignty and was sold to the Electorate of Saxony in 1765 . There she was incorporated into the Guben circle . In 1815 the area became part of the Kingdom of Prussia , where the Sorau district was formed in 1816 .
Lords of Sorau
- before 1260–1280 Albrecht von Dewin
- after 1280 – after 1288 Ulrich I. von Pack
- before 1297 – after 1329 Ulrich II. von Pack
- 1301 Heinrich von Pack
- 1329-1355 Ulrich III. by Pak (Pack)
- 1357–1360 Friedrich von Bieberstein
- after 1360 – after 1381 Johann von Bieberstein
- 1381 Ulrich I. von Bieberstein
- 1422 Wenzel I von Bieberstein
- 1422–1439 Ulrich II von Bieberstein
- around 1432 Ulrich III. from Bieberstein
- around 1432-after 1449 Wenzel II von Bieberstein
- around 1512 Hieronymus von Bieberstein
- –1554 Wenzel von Bieberstein
- 1557–1562 Balthasar von Promnitz
- 1562–1597 Seyfried von Promnitz
- 1597–1622 Heinrich Anselm von Promnitz
- 1622–1654 Siegmund Seyfried von Promnitz
- 1654–1664 Erdmann I. Leopold Graf von Promnitz
- 1664–1678 Ulrich Hypparchos Count von Promnitz (as guardian of Balthasar Erdmann)
- 1678–1703 Balthasar Erdmann Count von Promnitz
- 1703–1745 Erdmann II. Count of Promnitz
- 1745–1765 Johann Erdmann Graf von Promnitz , sells the Sorau and Triebel reigns to the Electorate of Saxony
literature
- Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Mark Brandenburg and the Markgrafthum Nieder-Lausitz , Volume 1, Brandenburg 1854, pp. 198-199 ( books.google.de ).
- Johann Gottlob Worbs : History of the Lords Sorau and Triebel. Rauert, Sorau 1826 ( digitized version ), (Reprint: Niederlausitzer Verlag, Guben 2008, ISBN 978-3-935881-49-4 ).
- Friedrich Beck (Hrsg.): Overview of the holdings of the Brandenburg State Main Archives Potsdam. Part 1: Authorities and institutions in the territories of Kurmark, Neumark, Niederlausitz until 1808/16 . Weimar, 1964. pp. 596-597
Web links
- Lordship of Sorau and Triebel , Saxon State Archives, Main State Archives Dresden
- The lordships of Sorau, Triebel, Forst and Pförten , directory based on a map by Johann Georg Schreiber, around 1730, Leipzig
- Certificates 17./18. Century to Sorau , Secret State Archive Berlin
Remarks
- ↑ Johannes Schultze: The land register of the Lordship of Sorau. Verlag Gsellius, Berlin 1936. A very important source for the history of the area
- ↑ https://sachsen.digital/werkansicht/dlf/156106/1/
- ↑ http://www.dresden-warszawa.eu/pl/miasta/zary-pl/
- ↑ https://books.google.de/books?id=l3xIAAAAMAAJ&q=sorau+1512&dq=sorau+1512&hl=pl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiw8IC-4NrhAhVmzqYKHWG-B4Y4ChDoAQhQMAY
- ↑ Friedrich Pollack: Miklaws Jakubica . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .