Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt subordination

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Several parts of the area in Northern Thuringia were designated as the subordinate rule of the county or, since 1697, the principality of the House of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt - named after the topography, in contrast to the Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt suzerainty . These once belonged to the possessions of the Lords of Schwarzburg , Count Günther XL. the empire united to maximum size in the county of Schwarzburg . These were divided between his four sons in the Stadtilm Treaty in 1571 and again in 1574.

The counties of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen came into being under Johann Günther I , Schwarzburg-Frankenhausen under Wilhelm I , and Schwarzburg-Arnstadt under Günther XLI. and Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt under Albrecht VII.

Dates of the Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt subordination

Geographical expansion

The Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt subordinate rule with the city of Frankenhausen as the center was in the southeastern Harz foreland . It comprised the Kyffhäuser , the eastern part of the Hainleite and the western part of the Diamantene Aue . The Wipper affected the rule in the southwest. In the middle of the 19th century, the area included the two exclaves Schlotheim with Mehrstedt and Straussberg with Immenrode, which were located to the west of the subordinate rule. The dominant area is now mostly in the center of the Kyffhäuserkreis in the north of the Free State of Thuringia . Only Schlotheim and Mehrstedt belong to the Unstrut-Hainich district today .

Adjacent administrative units

The specified administrative units refer to the core area of ​​the subordinate rule in the period before the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

From 1815, the Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt subordinate border bordered on various districts of the Prussian province of Saxony in the north, east and south . In the southeast it bordered on the Oldisleben exclave of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and in the west on the Schwarzburg special houses subordination.

The enclave Straussberg / Immenrode bordered Prussia (area around Bleicherode) in the west and north, the exclave Großfurra of the Electoral Saxon office Weißensee (1815 to the Schwarzburg special houses subordinate) and in the east and south the Schwarzburg special houses subordinate.

The Schlotheim / Mehrstedt exclave bordered in the northwest, north and east on the Schwarzburg-Sondershäuser Unterherrschaft, in the south on the Electoral Saxon Office Langensalza (1815 to Prussia), in the west on the Office Volkenroda (exclave of the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg ).

Associated areas

The territory under the rule of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt consisted of the Frankenhausen part of the country . There were also two exclaves . The Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt part formed the eastern part of the Schwarzburg subordination . The subordinate rule of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt included the district court districts of Schlotheim and Frankenhausen.

Offices of the Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt subordination

The former office of Frankenhausen, the beginnings of which go back to the 14th century, was acquired in 1340 as a former Beichling rule by the Counts of Schwarzburg . In the Frankenhausen office, the office of Arnsburg or Seega , which is adjacent to the west, was added in the 18th century , the beginnings of which as a mocking office of Arnsburg also date back to the 14th century.

After the acquisition of the neighboring court Ichstedt by the princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1768, this was also administered by the Frankenhausen office and finally merged with the Frankenhausen office around 1825. In 1825 the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt ceded the exclave Amt Seebergen to the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg . Since 1838 the authority in Frankenhausen was also given the functions of the mountain judge for the subordinate rule. The authority had been known as the “Justice Office” since 1836, but it was only in 1845 that it finally became established.

The Unterherrschaft Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt consisted of the following offices:

The offices of Kelbra and Heringen in Northern Thuringia were jointly owned between 1419 and 1815 by the Counts of Schwarzburg (from 1599 Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt ) and Counts of Stolberg (from 1706 Stolberg-Roßla ) under the suzerainty of the Albertine Wettins (later Electorate of Saxony ).

Territorial changes

When the administrative powers of the office were transferred to the Frankenhausen District Office, which was established in 1850 , the Frankenhausen I and II Justice Offices were established, the former being responsible for the city of Frankenhausen, the second for the rural communities in the former area of ​​the district. The district office now included the city of Frankenhausen with its neighboring towns in the Kyffhäuser Mountains and the two exclaves Schlotheim and Immenrode .

The two judicial offices were merged into one judicial office as early as 1853. The Frankenhausen justice office had been responsible for the Saxon-Weimar-Eisenachian exclave Oldisleben since 1850, but this was reintegrated into the Allstedt justice office in 1867 .

From 1879 the Frankenhausen judicial office was continued as the Schwarzburg district court, from 1921 as the Thuringian district court, and in 1949 it was merged with the Sondershausen district court.

In 1918 the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt became the Free State of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , which in turn became part of the State of Thuringia on May 1, 1920 . In the course of a comprehensive regional reform on October 1, 1922, the area of ​​the Frankenhausen district office was incorporated into the new district of Sondershausen .

Places under the rule of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1900

District Office Frankenhausen

The district office of Frankenhausen also included the uninhabited, community-free forest districts of Arensburg, Hainlehde, Kyffhäuser Forst with Rathsfeld, Kyffhäuser Monument and Rotenburg, Leuckhardt'scher Filler, Schlotheim, Seega and Seehausen.

See also

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ File about the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt