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The Hopffgarten Court was a territorial administrative unit of the Ernestine duchies . The patrimonial of the Lords of Hopffgarten belonged from 1640 to the duchy of Saxe-Gotha , from 1672 to the duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and from 1826 to Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .

Until the abolition of patrimonial jurisdiction in 1839, it was the spatial reference point for claiming sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , jurisdiction and military service .

Geographical location

The Hopffgarten Court consisted of four territorially separated parts. The core area of ​​the Haineck district with Nazza, Hallungen, Ebenshausen and Frankenroda was in the valley of the Lempersbach and Werra on the western edge of the Hainich . To the south of the area were the places Lauterbach and Neukirchen, which were separated from the administrative area by the local area of Mihla (Saxony-Eisenachisches Amt Creuzburg). To the west of Lauterbach lies Craula on the southeastern edge of the Hainich. The place was separated from the Haineck department by the Hainich forests belonging to the Langensalza district of Saxony and the Creuzburg district of Saxony-Eisenach. To the south of Craula was the remaining area of ​​the Hopffgarten court with Burla, Ebenheim, Laucha, Mechterstädt and Weingarten. This was separated from Craula by the Wangenheim courts. This territory was between the Hörsel Mountains and the Nessetal in the north and the Hörsel in the south.

The ruled area is now in the west of the Free State of Thuringia and is partly part of the Gotha district and the Wartburg district .

Adjacent administrative units

Core area of ​​the Haineck district with Nazza and Haineck Castle

The core area of ​​the Haineck district was an exclave of the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha and bordered the following areas:

  • West: Ganerbschaft Treffurt (condominium of the Electorate of Saxony, the Landgraviate of Hesse and Kurmainz, from 1815 to the Prussian district of Mühlhausen )
  • North: Eichsfeld (ore monastery Mainz, from 1815 to the Prussian district of Mühlhausen)
  • Northeast: Vogtei Dorla (for the Treffurt estate; condominium of the Electorate of Saxony, the Landgraviate of Hesse and Kurmainz, from 1815 to the Prussian district of Mühlhausen)
  • Southeast: Amt Langensalza (Electorate of Saxony, from 1815 to the Prussian district of Langensalza )
  • South: Amt Creuzburg (Duchy of Saxony-Eisenach or Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach)
Southern part of the Haineck district with Neukirchen and Lauterbach

The southern part of the Haineck District was also an exclave of the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha, which was arched in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach (Office of Creuzburg). Only in the west did it border on the Saxon office of Langensalza.

Craula

Craula bordered in the north and east on the Electoral Saxon office of Langensalza and in the west and south on the places of the Wangenheim court belonging to the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha .

Places around Mechterstädt

The places Burla, Weingarten, Ebenheim, Mechterstädt and Laucha formed a contiguous territory, which was completely in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha.

This bordered on the following areas:

history

The history of the Hopffgarten court began with the acquisition of Haineck Castle, built around 1385 by the Thuringian landgraves, and its castle district by the von Hopffgarten gentlemen . After they received the area as a pledge in 1503, in 1513 they received the town of Nazza, Haineck Castle and the court located there by the sovereign, the Ernestine Elector of Saxony, Frederick the Wise as a hereditary fiefdom . To the castle district of Haineck Castle belonged the places Nazza, Hallungen, Frankenroda, Ebenshausen, as well as the places Lauterbach and Neukirchen, separated from the area by the Office of Creuzburg. During this time the town of Craula came to the Lords of Hopffgarten on Haineck zu Nazza. The Lords of Hopffgarten had already acquired Ebenheim from the Lords of Erffa in 1472 .

Around 1550, the Nazza Castle was built as a farm yard with a representative residential building by the von Hopffgarten gentlemen on Haineck zu Nazza. At that time they began to move their residence to the outskirts. Administrators and servants stayed behind in the castle to guard. In the period that followed, Haineck Castle lost its importance. After 1592 Herrmann von Reckrodt sold his estate in Mechterstädt, along with all affiliations and all rights, to the Lords of Hopffgarten, which meant that the whole place came to them. When Burla and Weingarten came to the Hopffgarten court is unknown.

The suzerainty over the Hopffgarten court had been with the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha since 1640 and with the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg from 1672 . In 1714, the Lords of Teutleben sold the village of Laucha to Georg Friedrich von Hopffgarten, which brought the place to his court.

From 1826 the Hopffgarten court belonged to the Duchy of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . After the Lords of Hopffgarten had ceded their patrimonial jurisdiction in 1839 , the places were assigned to princely authorities. The exclave locations Nazza, Hallungen, Ebenshausen, Frankenroda, Lauterbach and Neukirchen were assigned to the “Nazza Court Office”, which was set up as an administrative and judicial authority. During the administrative reform carried out in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha in 1858, the Nazza court office was renamed “Nazza Justice Office”, but because of its remote location it retained its administrative activities. It was not until 1869 that the Nazza Judicial Office was abolished and the administration and judiciary were separated from one another. The administrative tasks came to the Waltershausen District Office , the administration of justice was taken over by the Thal Justice Office.

The places Burla, Craula, Ebenheim and Weingarten belonged to the state "Judicial Office Wangenheim in Friedrichswerth" since 1839. Laucha and Mechterstädt came to the Tenneberg Justice Office. During the administrative reform in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha, the administration of these places came to the Waltershausen District Office in 1858. The court office in Wangenheim zu Friedrichswerth was converted into a purely judicial office. In 1879 the justice offices of Tenneberg, Wangenheim were converted to Friedrichswerth and Thal in the local courts.

Associated places

Villages of the Haineck castle district

For the place Ebenshausen, the office of Creuzburg in the Duchy of Saxony-Eisenach and Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach perceived civil jurisdiction. The criminal jurisdiction lay with the men of Hopffgarten, duties and taxes had to be paid to the men of Harstall in Mihla .

Other villages
Castles and Palaces
Desolation
  • Berenfeld and Ritzenhausen (near Hallungen)
  • Vippach (near Mechterstädt)
  • Altenburg near Nazza

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Nazza Justice Office in the Thuringia archive portal
  2. ^ The court office Wangenheim zu Friedrichswerth in the archive portal Thuringia
  3. Book: "Thuringia Architectural and Art Monuments", 1891

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