District Office Freiberg
The Freiberg district office 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 Freiberg district office lies between the central and eastern Ore Mountains and its foreland. The Alte Dresden-Chemnitz-Zwickau-Hofer Poststrasse and the Alte Freiberg-Teplitzer Poststrasse , among others, lead through the official area as important traffic axes.
history
Until the middle of the 12th century , the region around Freiberg lay in a primeval forest that stretched over the Ore Mountains to northern Bohemia . Between 1156 and 1162, Margrave Otto the Rich began clearing the forest and creating forest hoof villages . When rich lead ores containing silver were discovered around 1168/70, Freiberg was created within a few years. This mountain town developed in the course of the development of the medieval constitution of offices in the margraviate of Meißen into the administrative center of the Freiberg district office. In 1221 a bailiff of the Margrave of Meißen can be identified for the first time in Freiberg.
In the 15th century, Freiberg lost its leading economic position within Saxony to Leipzig due to the migration of capital , but it was able to maintain its position as a middle-class center and is considered by local researchers to be the mother of the Saxon mining towns .
In the period from 1787 to 1828, the administration of the Grillenburg office took place in the mountain town of Freiberg. As everywhere in the Electorate of Saxony, the judiciary and rent offices were established as separate departments from around 1784. In 1831 two independent authorities emerged from this. The Freiberg Justice Office was finally dissolved in 1854 and the Freiberg Rent Office in 1865.
Associated places
The main place of the office was the eponymous and largest city of the official area, Freiberg . There were also several official villages and manors.
literature
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0
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Web links
- Official register - the Freiberg district office in the historical register of Saxony.
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Schiffner : Handbook of geography, statistics and topography of the Kingdom of Saxony , Zwickau 1840.