Office Stollberg (Ore Mountains)

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The Stollberg Office (formerly Stollberg Rule ) was a territorial administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony in the Erzgebirge district .

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

Geographical expansion

The area of the Stollberg office formed the core of what would later become the Stollberg district . It was located in the lower Ore Mountains south of Chemnitz in the valleys of Würschnitz and Zwönitz .

Adjacent administrative units

Office Schönburg-Lichtenstein Amt Grünhain (exclave) Chemnitz Office
Office Zwickau (exclave) Neighboring communities Office of Selva
Office Schönburg-Hartenstein Grünhain office

history

The first owners of the "Herrschaft Stollberg" were the Burgraves of Starkenberg . The " Stal (e) burc ", from which the name Stollberg was derived, was mentioned for the first time in 1244 and was the center of the area. Some places around Zwönitz came to the Grünhain monastery before 1300 . Around 1300 the territory of the Stollberg dominion came to the Schönburger , who sold the dominion to King Wenceslas of Bohemia in 1367. In 1423 the rule of Stollberg passed to the Wettins as a Bohemian fief . In 1473 the Bishop of Meissen Dietrich IV von Schönberg bought the territory with his nephews Heinrich and Caspar. Since the division of Leipzig in 1485, the area was Albertine . The Stollberg office was established in 1564 after the Schönbergers had sold the rule to the Saxon elector. The official seat was Stollberg Castle; this was used as a prison since the 17th century; From 1704 the new name Schloss Hoheneck was derived from the new tower built for this purpose in the Hohen Eck ; the castle remained in prison until 2001.

In 1843, some places from the Zwickau and Grünhain offices were added to the Stollberg office , which were spatially separated from the core area of ​​their offices.

Associated places

The main place of the office was the eponymous place Stollberg with the "Staleburg" built around 1244, which later became Hoheneck Castle .

Places of rule Stollberg
place current location Remarks
City of Stollberg / Erzgeb. City of Stollberg / Erzgeb. with castle and town of Hoheneck
Oberdorf City of Stollberg / Erzgeb.
Mitteldorf City of Stollberg / Erzgeb.
Niederdorf Niederdorf municipality
Erlbach City of Lugau
Meinersdorf Community Burkhardtsdorf
Gornsdorf community Gornsdorf
Auerbach (Ore Mountains) Municipality Auerbach (Erzgebirge)
Hormersdorf City of Zwönitz
Thalheim / Erzgeb. City of Thalheim / Erzgeb. City since 1925
Brunless City of Zwönitz
Dorfchemnitz City of Zwönitz
Niederzwönitz City of Zwönitz
Niederwürschnitz community Niederwürschnitz until 1843 exclave of the Zwickau district
Oberwürschnitz City of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. until 1843 exclave of the Zwickau district
Neuwiese City of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. Created around 1700, until 1843 the Zwickau district was excluded
Lugau City of Lugau originally belonged to Grafschaft Hartenstein , until 1843 the exclave of the Zwickau district , town since 1924
Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. (electoral portion) City of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. until 1843 exclave of the Zwickau and Grünhain offices ; City since 1924
Kirchberg City of Lugau until 1843 exclave of the Grünhain office
origin City of Lugau until 1843 exclave of the Grünhain office
Seifersdorf Community Jahnsdorf / Erzgeb. until 1843 exclave of the Grünhain office
Pfaffenhain Community Jahnsdorf / Erzgeb. until 1843 exclave of the Grünhain office
Gablenz City of Stollberg / Erzgeb. 1286 to 1843 exclave of the Grünhain office
Günsdorf (Gu (e) nselsdorf) City of Zwönitz 1286 to 1843 exclave of the Grünhain office
Oberlungwitz Abbey City of Oberlungwitz until 1843 exclave of the Grünhain office
Mountain town of Zwönitz City of Zwönitz after 1286 to the office of Grünhain
Kühnhaide City of Zwönitz after 1286 to the office of Grünhain

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