Landscape treasury
The landscape checkout , which the Landschaftscassadirectorium or the landscape checkout Board board refers to a financial authority in the early modern times , the management of the funds of the land objects or the so-called. Landscape held (all of the land objects within a rule area). This also acted as a credit institution. In the Prussian areas like u. a. in the Silesian landscape it was a mortgage bank or mortgage bank . This was also used to regulate tax collection. The tax revenue as well as the administration of the landscape treasury was the responsibility of the landscape taker .
In the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, for example, it had its seat in the so-called Kasseturm in Weimar . The vaulted box office named after her came into her possession at the Jacobsfriedhof Weimar . One of its directors was Johann Siegmund von Oppel during Goethe's time . The council of the Landschaftskasse Gottfried Matthias Ludwig Schrön was the uncle and foster father of Friedrich Justin Bertuch . Originally, the landscape treasury was to be housed in the building in Weimar, which then became the Princely House . The castle fire of 1774 prevented this.