Diocese of Naumburg-Zeitz

Diocese of Naumburg-Zeitz, diocesan borders

Territorial division of the region around 1250 with the Naumburg monastery around Naumburg and Zeitz

Coat of arms of the diocese of Naumburg

Naumburg Cathedral

Zeitz Cathedral

The diocese of Naumburg-Zeitz (Latin: Episcopatus Nuemburgensis or Dioecesis Nuemburgensis ) is a former diocese in central Germany between Leipzig in the east and Erfurt in the west. The seat of the bishop was Zeitz with the Zeitz Cathedral between 968 and 1029 and Naumburg with the Naumburg Cathedral from 1029 onwards . It was dissolved as a result of the Reformation in 1562.

The bishopric of Naumburg was significantly smaller and, as an imperial principality, was subject to the secular rule of the bishop and cathedral chapter. It only included smaller, disjointed areas around the cities of Naumburg and Zeitz. After the Reformation it existed as Lutheran territory until 1615.

history

Diocese of Zeitz

At the suggestion of Emperor Otto , Pope John XIII. 967 approved the establishment of further dioceses in the newly acquired Slavic territories east of the Saale. In 968 the diocese of Zeitz was founded (also the dioceses of Merseburg and Meißen ). As suffragans they belonged to the church province of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg .

Even in the decades after the Slav uprising of 983 , the bishopric in Zeitz appeared to be endangered again and again until the Peace of Bautzen (1018). When, after a quieter decade, the war between Emperor Konrad II and Mieszko II. Lambert broke out and the latter attacked the eastern parts of the empire in 1028, the decision was made to relocate the episcopal see from Zeitz to Naumburg, further away from the border.

organization

Bishopric boundaries and archdeaconates

The diocese of Naumburg extended in today's southwestern Saxony east of the Saale, south of the Elster, Pleiße and Zwickauer Mulde, west of the diocese of Meißen and north of the Ore Mountains . It comprised the four archdeaconates Naumburg, Zeitz, Altenburg and " trans Muldam " ( beyond the Zwickauer Mulde , consisting of the deaneries Lichtenstein , Glauchau , Hartenstein and Lößnitz ).

Monasteries

There were 46 monasteries and monasteries in the diocese of Naumburg , including the cathedral monastery Naumburg and the Cistercian monastery Pforta .

Bishops

→ Main article : List of the bishops of Naumburg

Hochstift

The Naumburg bishopric was the name for the secular property of the diocese.

That also included

• Zeitz Bishop's Castle
• Bishops' courts in Naumburg
• Crossen Castle
• Strehla Castle
• Haynsburg Castle
• Breitenbach Castle and Kempe
• Heuckewalde Castle
• Schönburg Castle
• Rudelsburg Castle
• Saaleck Castle

Coins

Diocese of Naumburg, Berthold II of Meißen (1186–1206), bracteate

The bishops of Naumburg had the right to mint in Strehla on the Elbe in association with the Margrave of Meissen.

literature

Current overview displays

• Heinz Wießner (edit.): The Diocese of Naumburg. The diocese (= Germania sacra , NF, vol. 35: The dioceses of the church province of Magdeburg , part volumes 1 and 2). de Gruyter, Berlin 1997 (Part 1, ISBN 3-11-015193-6 ) and 1998 (Part 2, ISBN 3-11-015570-2 ). ( Digital copy , PDF )

• Sebastian Baum: The Zeitz diocese from 968 to 1024 . In: Gerlinde Schlenker (Ed.): Protocol of the Scientific Colloquium on May 26, 2000 in Wetzendorf / Memleben , Halle 2000, pp. 69–77. ISBN 3-928466-33-X .

Documents and chronicles

• Felix Rosenfeld : Document book of the Hochstift Naumburg , part 1 (967–1207). Holtermann, Magdeburg 1925.
• Hans Patze , Josef Dolle: Document book of the Hochstift Naumburg , part 2 (1207–1304). Böhlau, Weimar 2000, ISBN 978-3-412-14499-9 .

Older literature

• Caspar Sagittarius : Historia episcoporum Numburgensium a prima episcopatus origine ad praesentem statum repetita , Jena, Verlag Nisius, 1683 ( digitized version ).
• Irisander (Johann Christian Grubner): Collection of useful, mostly never printed documents, watch customers, recesses, comparisons ... for explanation as old as the new spiritual and secular history of the Hohenstiff Naumburg and Zeitz . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1734 ( digitized ).
• Christian Salomon Pollmächer: Historical, geographical and topographical description of the high Naumburg-Zeitz monastery, mostly from unprinted news . Dresden 1790 ( digitized version ).
• Johann Paul Christian Philipp: History of the Naumburg Monastery and Zeitz . Webel, Zeitz 1800 ( digitized version ).
• Carl Peter Lepsius : History of the bishops of the Naumburg bishopric before the Reformation , Naumburg 1846 ( digitized version ).
• Paul Lange: Chronicle of the diocese of Naumburg and its bishops. Based on his handwriting in the municipal archive , edited by Karl Felix Köster. Sieling, Naumburg 1891.
• Louis Naumann : From the history of the Naumburg diocese . Sieling, Naumburg 1929.
• Louis Naumann: consecrated names of the churches and chapels in the diocese of Zeitz-Naumburg. A contribution to research on patronage . Sieling, Naumburg 1936.

Web links

• Entry on the diocese of Naumburg-Zeitz on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Wilhelm Sante (ed.): History of the German Lands - "Territories Ploetz". Vol. 1: The territories until the end of the old empire . A.-G.-Ploetz-Verlag, Würzburg 1964, p. 116.
2. ↑ Exact boundary description in Dss Diocese of Naumburg , Volume 1, p. 133 and map p. 1292
3. ^ Diocese of Naumburg, Germania Sacra Monasteries , Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
4. ↑ On worldly possessions, the Naumburg diocese , Volume 1, pp. 509–682. ( Digitized version )
5. ^ The Diocese of Naumburg , Volume 1, pp. 39–75
6. ↑ Walther Haupt: Sächsische Münzkunde ..., p. 56.