Lordship of Wolkenburg

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The rule of Wolkenburg was a patrimonial rule that was under the rule of the Electorate of Saxony until the 19th century , which lay in the middle of the Schönburg rule and belonged as an exclave to the Electorate of Borna .

Geographical location

The contiguous area of ​​the former rule of Wolkenburg with the places Wolkenburg / Mulde (with Gut Biensdorf), Dürrengerbisdorf (partially), Herrnsdorf , Uhlsdorf , Kaufungen (with Sorge and Mühlwiese ) and Schlagwitz was located on both sides of the Zwickauer Mulde between Waldenburg in the southwest and Penig in the Northeast. The area also included the Jahnshorn exclave and the free float in Franconia, which was territorially separated from the core area .

The area of ​​the former electoral Saxon rule Wolkenburg belonged as an exclave to the Electoral Saxon Office Borna, from which it was separated by the Schoenburgian rule Penig, which was under the electoral Saxon feudal rule . The electoral Saxon rule Wolkenburg in turn separated the Schönburg rule into a north and a south part. The area of ​​the former rule of Wolkenburg today forms the northernmost part of the Saxon district of Zwickau . The majority of the area with the towns of Wolkenburg / Mulde, Dürrengerbisdorf, Herrnsdorf, Uhlsdorf and Kaufungen now forms the Wolkenburg-Kaufungen district of the city of Limbach-Oberfrohna . Jahnshorn is now part of the Niederfrohna municipality . The places Schlagwitz and Franconia are now parts of the city of Waldenburg .

Adjacent administrative units

Altenburg District Office ( Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg ) Dominion Penig ( Schoenburg feudal rule )
Dominion Waldenburg ( Schoenburg class lordship ) Neighboring communities Chemnitz Office (Electorate or Kingdom of Saxony)
Dominion Waldenburg ( Schoenburg class lordship ) Dominion Penig ( Schoenburg feudal rule )

history

Wolkenburg Castle, exterior view
Kaufungen Castle
Entrance to the St. Anna visitor mine in Wolkenburg-Kaufungen

The two main places of the rule of Wolkenburg, Kaufungen and Wolkenburg were first mentioned in a document in 1226 and 1241 respectively. The area was settled in the 12th century by Wiprecht von Groitzsch . While in Wolkenburg already at this time a castle was existed in Kaufungen a manor . While Wolkenburg Castle was owned by the Lords of Colditz -Wolkenburg in the 13th and 14th centuries , the Kaufungen manor belonged to the noble von Kaufungen family , who belonged to the Meissen nobility and were first documented in 1231 with Henricus de Khoufungen . With the start of ore mining on Ulrichsberg (Ullersberg) south of Wolkenburg in 1345, mining began in the Wolkenburg district, which continued into the 19th century . In the 15th century, the Kaufungen manor and the Wolkenburg castle belonged to Kunz von Kauffungen , who achieved fateful fame as a result of the Altenburg prince robbery in 1455. After his capture and beheading, his possessions were confiscated.

Since then the rule of Wolkenburg has belonged to the Margraves of Meißen from the House of Wettin . Located in the middle of the Schönburg rulership , the places of the rulership of Wolkenburg were subordinate to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office Borna as an exclave until the 19th century . The rulership of Wolkenburg included the towns of Wolkenburg (with the castle and the Biensdorf desert), Kaufungen (with the manor, Mühlwiese and Sorge), Dürrengerbisdorf (proportionately), Herrnsdorf, Uhlsdorf, Schlagwitz, a proportion of Franconia and the exclave of Jahnshorn.

The ownership of the neighboring castles of Wolkenburg and Kaufungen has been under joint court administration since 1766. The manorial rule was exercised during this time by the Lords of Einsiedel . Count Friedrich Karl von Einsiedel, son of the diplomat Karl von Einsiedel , ceded the jurisdiction of the Wolkenburg manor with Kaufungen to the state in 1851. As a result, the places of the Wolkenburg lordship came to the royal Saxon court of Limbach in 1851 and to the Penig court office in 1856 , which was incorporated into the Rochlitz district administration in 1875 .

Associated places

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Lordship of Wolkenburg  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Wolkenburg Castle at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
  2. ↑ The Kaufungen manor at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
  3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 62 f.
  4. ^ The Rittergut Wolkenburg with Kaufungen in the archive of the Free State of Saxony
  5. ^ The rule of Wolkenburg in the archive of the Free State of Saxony
  6. ^ The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900