Abbey velvet Wurzen

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The pin Official Wurzen denotes the temporal rule field of high pin Meißen , which - after the reformation and the resignation of the last Bishop of Meißen - 1581 to 1818 as one of the by-country of Albertine Electorate or Kingdom axes by a specially appointed pin government Wurzen was administered.

It comprised the three offices Wurzen , Mügeln and Sornzig , which belonged to the Leipzig district of the Kingdom of Saxony from 1818 to 1856 after the abbey office was dissolved .

Geographical location

The Wurzen monastery office consisted of two parts spatially separated by the Mutzschen electoral office .

The northern part is the Wurzen department, originally called Wurzener Land , on both sides of the United Mulde in the north of today's Leipzig district , on the border with the northern Saxony district , with the town of Wurzen on the eastern high bank of the Mulde as the central location .

The southern part of the monastery office was formed by the offices of Mügeln and Sornzig , which were mostly mentioned together and were located in the valley of the Döllnitz on the western edge of the Lommatzscher care . North of the city Mügeln starts already for office Mutzschen related wermsdorf forest , a forest area stretching to the Dahlen Heath covers.

The existing 1953 to 1994, county or district Wurzen was about the old pen area of Wurzener country. It had only been expanded to include several communities west of the Mulde.

Adjacent administrative units

The Wurzen Abbey Office consisted of two parts spatially separated by the Mutzschen electoral office , which is neglected in the statement. The more northern part is the original as Wurzener country designated Office Wurzen , the southern part of the pen Office were the most together-mentioned offices Mügeln and Sornzig .

Office Eilenburg Office Torgau
Inheritance Grimma District Office Leipzig Neighboring communities Office Oschatz
Office Colditz (exclave) Leisnig Office Inheritance Meißen Education Authority Meißen

history

The Wurzener Land under the rule of the Diocese of Meißen

The town of Wurzen , which was established around 960, belonged to the diocese of Merseburg until 995 and then came to the diocese of Meißen . The diocese border was formed by the Mulde . The origins of the Wurzen Abbey can be found in the collegiate monastery founded in 1114 by Bishop Herwig von Meißen in the city of Wurzen . The area around the city became a secular territorial rule with the name " Wurzener Land " ("terra wurciniensis") under the administration of the bishops of Meißen . In the 13th century, the offices of Mügeln and Sornzig , located south of the Wurzener Land, came into the possession of the bishops of Meißen and were administered by the Wurzen collegiate monastery. Bishop Johann VI. von Saalhausen had Wurzen Castle built as a bishopric at the end of the 15th century . It was the residence of the bishops of Meissen until 1581.

After the division of the Wettin lands in 1485, the patronage over Wurzen and the Wurzen Land was jointly exercised by the Ernestines and Albertines . Both lines were ultimately out to secularize the episcopal territory, which u. a. 1542 led to the so-called " Wurzener Feud ". The feud was immediately preceded by the dispute between Duke Moritz (Albertiner) and Elector Johann Friedrich (Ernestiner) over the use of the tax money in this area. Johann Friedrich also asked Wurzen Abbey to pay the ( Turkish tax ) to finance the Turkish wars , which the Abbey refused to pay.

The Wurzener Land at the time of the Reformation

The Wurzener feud took Johann Friedrich in 1542 as an opportunity to intervene in the powers of the pen Wurzen to the Reformation enforce. In the 16th century the monastery became Protestant. After the Reformation, the Wurzen Collegiate Monastery was continued as a Lutheran cathedral chapter , which still exists today. In 1570 the Saxon elector exchanged the office of Belgern near Torgau to the diocese of Meißen , whose bishops established it as an office and placed it under the administration of the Wurzen monastery. In 1581 it came back into the possession of the Saxon Elector, who reassigned it to the Torgau office . The Meißner Stiftsamt Wurzen kept the tax collection and the result in about eleven villages, which otherwise remained under the jurisdiction of the Office Torgau.

The Wurzen Abbey Office under the rule of the Wettin Abbey Government (1581-1818)

On October 20, 1581 the last bishop Johann IX thanked . from Haugwitz . With the resignation of the last bishop of Meissen Johann IX. (Haugwitz) in 1581 which was Wurzener country and the offices Mügeln and Sornzig completely into the since 1547 Albertine Electorate incorporated, although there are still a pen Office Wurzen to 1818 by a specially created "Electoral Saxon pin Government" ( by the prescribed of the pin Meissen Captain, chancellor and councilors ) was administered on behalf of the Dresden court.

The area of ​​the Wurzen monastery office after the dissolution of the Wettin monastery government in 1818

After the Wurzen monastery was dissolved, the Wurzen , Mügeln and Sornzig offices became sovereign offices in the Leipzig district of the Kingdom of Saxony . They existed until 1856 and were then replaced by the Wurzen court offices ( Wurzen office ) and Mügeln and Oschatz ( Mügeln and Sornzig offices ).

The Kollegiatstift Wurzen sent a representative to the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament until the end of the Kingdom of Saxony in 1918 .

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  1. ↑ Burkhardt: Die Wurzener Feud , in: Karl von Weber (ed.): Archive for the Saxon History, Volume 4, Issue 1, Leipzig 1865, pp. 57-81 Digitized of the entire edition (pdf, 14.4MB)