Vogtland district
The Vogtland District was an administrative unit of the Electorate of Saxony, which was converted into a kingdom in 1806 .
Geographical expansion
The area of the Vogtland District encompassed almost all of today's Saxon Vogtland District with the exception of a few places around the town of Neumark . The district also included the exclaves of Gefell , Blintendorf , Sparnberg and Blankenberg in what is now the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia . The district extended to the Elster Mountains and the western foothills of the Ore Mountains near Schöneck . The office jutted south like a wedge into the territory of the Kingdom of Bohemia . The upper reaches of the rivers Weisse Elster , Göltzsch , Zwickauer Mulde and Zwota flowed through the district . Two exclaves were located on the Saale on the border with the Principality of Bayreuth .
Adjacent areas
| Principality of Reuss younger line | Principality of Reuss older line | |
| Principality of Bayreuth |
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Erzgebirge district |
| Kingdom of Bohemia ( Ascher Ländchen ) | Kingdom of Bohemia ( Schönbacher Ländchen ) |
history
The Vogtland district was part of the three-tier administrative structure in what would later become Saxony. The basis of this structure and lower structure of the sovereign administration were the offices that emerged from the margravial bailiffs in the 14th and 15th centuries . With the adoption of the Chancellery Regulations by Elector Moritz in 1574, a central authority in the sense of a state government was created . The thorough organization of the administration down to the local level (office organization) led to the assignment of the offices to administrative authorities . These were in turn grouped into districts ( Kurkreis , Leipziger Kreis , Meißnischer Kreis , Vogtlandischer Kreis, Thüringer Kreis , Neustädter Kreis ) in order to integrate the areas that were especially acquired by the Ernestine Wettins in the 16th century.
The area of the Vogtland District was formed in 1577 after the Saxon elector reacquired the offices of Pausa , Plauen and Voigtsberg from the heavily indebted bailiffs of Plauen in 1569 . From 1657 to 1718 the Vogtland District with its three offices belonged to the Albertine secondary school principality of Saxony-Zeitz .
After the Saxon borders were re-established at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Vogtland District formed the territorial division of Saxony from 1816 together with the Leipzig District, the Meißnische Kreis, the Erzgebirge District and the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia . The exclaves of the Plauen Office , d. H. the town of Gefell and the towns of Blintendorf , Sparnberg and Blankenberg were from 1815 to 1944 exclaves of the Prussian district of Ziegenrück , which was itself an exclave within the province of Saxony .
In 1835 the administrative replacement by the district directorates (from 1873 district chiefs) in Bautzen, Dresden, Leipzig and Zwickau. At that time, the Vogtland District covered an area of approx. 1400 km² and had 101,285 inhabitants (1830).
scope
At the end of the 18th century, the district included 14 cities. It bordered the Ore Mountains District , Bohemia , the Russian rulers and the Principality of Bayreuth . In 1830 there were 101,285 inhabitants in 3 offices in the area of the Vogtland District. The area is almost identical to today's Vogtlandkreis .
Offices
The Vogtland District remained with the Duchy of Saxony-Zeitz from 1656/57 to 1718 .
| Office | Official seat | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Office of Plauen | Plauen | included the north of the Vogtland district |
| Office break | Break / Vogtl. | after 1764 mostly mentioned together with Amt Plauen |
| Office Voigtsberg | Voigtsberg Castle near Oelsnitz / Vogtl. | comprised the south of the Vogtland district |
See also
literature
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0
- Leo Bönhoff : The oldest offices of the Mark Meissen . In: New Archive for Saxon History . tape 38 , 1917, p. 17–45 ( digitized version ).
- Otto Kaemmel: Saxon History , 6th edition, special edition of the Saxon State Center for Civic Education, Hellerau-Verlag Dresden GmbH, Dresden 2000
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2011 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.
