Meissen Abbey Office

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The Meißner Ämter on a map from 1750, a directory of the Meissen Abbey can be found on the left side of the map.

The Meissen Abbey was an administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony , which was converted into a kingdom in 1806, and was affiliated to the Meissen District .

history

The Meissen Abbey was established during the Reformation . After the secularization of the cathedral chapter of Meißen, the Dombaukasse u. Certain canon foundations were administered by the Meissen Abbey. This was identical to the administration of the bishopric established by the cathedral chapter . The monastery syndic was responsible for the administration of justice with the exercise of patrimonial jurisdiction, the administration of the income, which did not accrue to the state but to the cathedral chapter, was carried out by the monastery building master. The monastery office existed until 1816 and was then combined with the Meissen hereditary office . The jurisdiction of the cathedral chapter was transferred to the Freiberg district office in 1852.

area

In addition to the jurisdiction over the buildings of the cathedral chapter and 7 other houses in the city of Meißen and jurisdiction over the Meissen cathedral, including certain "built-in" houses and the Maria Magdalenen chapel, the Meißen monastery office had sole state and landed rights or proportionally - over the following 21 localities with a total of almost 2,000 inhabitants (in 1800):

Evening with New Höfgen, Boritz , Kemnitz , Kobitzsch , Lüttnitz with Zschannewitz, Mettelwitz , low-Topp skull , Noßlitz , Upper Bardo , Pro Fit at Staucha , Rüsseina with Klessig, Saultitz , Schirmenitz , Sörnewitz , Wolkau , Zschaitz , Zöllmen .

Individual evidence

  1. Archives of the Meissen Abbey  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the main state archive in Dresden@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archiv.sachsen.de  
  2. Directory of offices in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. Map Peter Schenk 1750