Consistory Leipzig

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Floor plan of the office building in Leipzig. The rooms at the top left were used by the consistory.

The Leipzig Consistory was one of the state institutions in the Electorate and then in the Kingdom of Saxony to exercise the sovereign church regiment after the Reformation via the Evangelical Lutheran Church .

The Leipzig consistory was established in 1550. It was responsible for the Leipzig district , the Thuringian district , the former diocese of Naumburg and temporarily also for the area of ​​the former diocese of Merseburg . Further Saxon consistories existed in Wittenberg ( Wittenberg Consistory for the Kurkreis ), Wurzen ( Wurzen Abbey ), Glauchau ( Schönburg dominions ) and Meißen ( Meißnischer Kreis ). In 1602 the Meißner consistory was transferred to Dresden as the senior consistory and thus became the superior authority for the other consistories. Since the declarations of submission by the Counts of Stolberg-Stolberg (1730) and Stolberg-Roßla (1731) under Electoral Saxon sovereignty, the Stolberg-Stolberg and Stolberg-Roßla consistories were also subject to the senior consistory, until these two and the Wittenberg consistory moved under Prussian sovereignty in 1815.

In terms of administrative tasks, the consistory fell, among other things: the supervision of the public worship, the supervision of the administration of church property, hospitals and poor houses, the supervision of the clergy including their way of life and moral behavior, the examination and appointment of church and School servants as well as the exercise of censorship in religious matters. The jurisdiction of the consistory extended to all clergymen, their relatives and servants, churches, cemeteries and other ecclesiastical institutions. After all, he was also responsible for litigation (marriage promises, divorces).

The Leipzig consistory consisted of four assessors, the oldest of whom assumed the chairmanship. Two of them were lawyers and two theologians. Due to the university , the court of higher courts and the Schöppenstuhl in the city, there was always enough choice for replacements. A few technical workers were added later.

The seat of the consistory was in the west wing of the office building on the north side of the Thomaskirchhof .

By decree of April 10, 1835, the Leipzig consistory was dissolved like all the others. Its duties were taken over by the Leipzig District Directorate and the Leipzig Court of Appeal .

literature

  • Jens Kunze : The newly opened consistory Leipzig in the Saxon State Archives Leipzig . In: Stadtgeschichte, Mitteilungen des Leipziger Geschichtsverein eV 2009, Sax-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86729-066-1 , pp. 43–66
  • Jens Kunze: The assessors of the Leipzig Consistory from its creation to the middle of the 18th century . In: Leipziger Stadtgeschichte, Yearbook 2012, Sax-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86729-102-6 , pp. 33–54

Remarks

  1. ↑ Jörg Brückner : Between imperial estate and state rule. The Counts of Stolberg and their relationship to the Landgraves of Thuringia and later dukes, electors and kings of Saxony (1210 to 1815) , Chemnitz: Technische Univ. Diss., 2003, p. 206.
  2. ↑ Jörg Brückner: Between imperial estate and state rule. The Counts of Stolberg and their relationship to the Landgraves of Thuringia and later dukes, electors and kings of Saxony (1210 to 1815) , Chemnitz: Technische Univ. Diss., 2003, p. 208.

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