Oldisleben Senior Office

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The Senioratsamt Oldisleben was a territorial administrative unit of the Ernestine duchies . Its predecessor, the Albertine Office of Oldisleben, was founded around 1539 and came under Ernestine suzerainty in 1554. From 1591 it was completely owned by the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar . Between 1642 and 1821 the Senioratsamt Oldisleben was administered jointly by a senior from the Ernestine duchies. In 1821 the office became the sole property of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach .

Until the administrative and territorial reform of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in 1850 and the associated dissolution, the office was the spatial reference point for the collection of sovereign taxes and compulsory services , for the police , judiciary and military service .

Geographical location

Oldisleben, which was the only place of the office, is located on the eastern slope of the Hainleite on the middle course of the Unstrut . He formed an exclave of the Ernestine duchies between the Schwarzburg-Rudolstädter Unterherrschaft and the Thuringian District , which was part of the Electorate of Saxony until 1815 and which became part of the Prussian province of Saxony in 1816 . The official area is now in the northeast of the Free State of Thuringia and belongs to the Kyffhäuserkreis .

Adjacent administrative units

history

The Oldisleben monastery

The first written mention of Oldisleben goes back to the founding of a Benedictine monastery by Kunigunde von Orlamünde , the wife of Kuno von Beichlingen , in 1089. The name of the evidently older place appeared for the first time in 1101 as Adesleven . Parallel to the development of the place, the Lower and Upper Sachsenburg were built at the Thuringian Gate south of Oldisleben between the 11th and 13th centuries to monitor the traffic routes in the Unstrut valley.

Due to the respected and wealthy monastery, the place developed into a market town . Oldisleben only came into the possession of the monastery in 1499 when it was bought by the Albertine Duke Georg . The monastery was largely destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525 and dissolved in 1539 after the residents of the village had converted to Protestantism in the course of the Reformation . The remaining buildings then served as chamber property and were transformed into an office under Albertine-Saxon sovereignty.

Oldisleben Senior Office

The Albertine Elector August of Saxony entered the Naumburg Treaty in 1554 a. a. the dissolved Oldisleben monastery and the neighboring Sachsenburg office to the Ernestines . While the latter remained in their possession and in 1567 came into pledge possession of the Albertine Electorate of Saxony as an "assekurierter office" , the Oldisleben office came to the Counts of Mansfeld in 1555 under Saxon-Ernestine sovereignty . In 1591 Oldisleben was bought back to the Ernestine line of Saxony-Weimar that was created in 1572 through the division of Erfurt . In accordance with the contract, Oldisleben was raised to a " Senioratsamt " in 1642 , which was administered jointly by the Ernestine Duchies of the lines of Saxe-Weimar (i.e. Weimar and Eisenach) and Saxe-Gotha (six lines created when the division in 1680). Each senior received sovereign rights for life. The House of Saxony-Weimar reserved the right to tax. Since the princely seniors were often very old, there were frequent changes of government. The seniority office held:

Dissolution of the senior office in the 19th century

On October 10, 1821, the seniority relationship was canceled by the Arnstadt house contract and the Oldisleben office with all pertinence was assigned to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . In 1849/50, jurisdiction was separated from administration in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . The Oldisleben office has since belonged to the "Weimar II administrative district" as an exclave, which was renamed the Apolda administrative district in 1868 . This comprised the eastern part of the former Duchy of Saxony-Weimar, which was also known as the Weimar District in the 19th century .

Associated places

Market town
Desolation
  • Chapel village
  • Möllendorf
  • Priesendorf
  • Rumsdorf

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oldisleben on the homepage of the Thüringer Pforte ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-thueringer-pforte.de
  2. ↑ Oldisleber Chronicle
  3. ^ Places of the Kyffhäuserkreis in the genealogy network
  4. ^ Diezel, Rudolf: The administrative districts in Saxony-Weimar since the 16th century: an administrative-historical-topographical investigation. In: Flach, Willy / Jacobs, Hans Haimar: Journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Archeology, Supplement 27, 1943, p. 79 digitized
  5. ↑ State Handbook for the Grand Duchy of Saxony 1843, pp. 161f.
  6. ^ The Office Oldisleben in the book "Geographical overview of the Saxon-Ernestinian, Schwarzburgic, Reussian and adjacent lands, p. 55