Fonds Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, 20547 - 20547 Seerhausen Manor

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History: The old written manor Seerhausen southwest of Riesa was situated in the territory of the Oschatz office. Since the end of the 14th century the manor has belonged to the von Schleinitz family. Thomas Freiherr von Fritsch bought it from this family in 1729. The estate remained in the possession of the von Fritsch family until its expropriation in the course of the land reform in 1945. After Carl Wilhelm Freiherr von Fritsch voluntarily assigned the jurisdiction over the manor to the Oschatz judicial office on April 30, 1839 in respect of Seerhausen, Groptitz and Kalbitz, and in respect of part of Winkwitz to the Meißen district office. The barons of Fritsch played an important role as statesmen: Thomas as secret councilor and conference minister as well as Saxon negotiator at the Hubertusburg peace agreement, Jacob Friedrich and Carl Wilhelm in state services at the Grand Ducal Court of Saxony-Weimar, Carl Friedrich Christian Wilhelm as state councillor and envoy for the Thuringian states in Frankfurt am Main.<br />The inventory also contains files of the Mautitz manor acquired by Thomas von Fritsch in 1752 and administered from the Seerhausen manor with jurisdiction over Roitzsch, Striegnitz and Treben. This jurisdiction also went to the Oschatz judicial office on 30 April 1839. The collection also includes documents relating to the Gross- und Kleingoddula manor near Merseburg, which came into the possession of the von Fritsch family as a result of inheritance.<br /><br />Content: Foundations of patrimonial rule.- Court administration.- Court records.- Criminal jurisdiction.- Civil jurisdiction.- Voluntary jurisdiction.- Local administration.- Patronage - landowner's- farming conditions - state parliament affairs - estate economy - family archives of Schleinitz and of Fritsch.<br /><br /> detailed introduction: The history of the manor Seerhausen<br /><br />>The village Seerhausen, in the former Meißner circle to the office Oschatz counting, lies southwest of Riesa. The existence of a manor in the village can be traced back a long way. Already from the year 1224 a knight Ulrich von Seeruse is known as the owner of the manor. Around 1400 the manor passed to the von Schleinitz family, in whose possession it remained for over three centuries.<a href="#B01"> <sup id="A01">[01]</sup></a> In 1693 Johanna Charlotte von Schleinitz was enfeoffed with the manor Seerhausen. She married the Privy Councillor Christoph Dietrich Bose and in 1727 left the Seerhausen manor in her will to the half of her mother, the baroness Rahel Sophie von Meusebach née von Friesen, who was married to Hans Georg von Schleinitz in her first marriage,<a href="#B02"> <sup id="A02">[02]</sup></a> and to the half of her husband. The latter ceded his half by means of a settlement on 26 March 1729 to the aforementioned Baroness of Meusebach. She sold the estate on 16 May 1729 to the Leipzig bookseller's son Thomas Fritsch.<a href="#B03"> <sup id="A03">[03]</sup></a> Beside gardens, fields, meadows, vineyards and others. Part of the Mark Förstchen (Lausaer Heide) near Belgern in the Torgau district belonged to the Seerhausen manor, which was sold to a Schildauer manor owner in 1877.<br /><br />The Seerhausen manor was old written and therefore had high and low jurisdiction. In addition to Seerhausen, the villages of Groptitz, Kalbitz and Roitzsch as well as parts of Striegnitz, Treben and Winkwitz were also subject to this jurisdiction. After secularization, the Meissen official village Weida and one half of Pausitz, previously owned by the Riesa monastery, also belonged to the Seerhausen manor for a long time.<a href="#B04"> <sup id="A04">[04]</sup></a><br /><br />As early as 1839, Carl Wilhelm Freiherr von Fritsch offered the state the assumption of the jurisdiction still due to the Seerhausen manor. This was probably due to the constitutional reforms of the 1830s and, in particular, the announcement of 26 April 1838 concerning the surrender of patrimonial courts with detailed implementing provisions.<a href="#B05"> <sup id="A05">[05]</sup></a> On 30 April 1838, the Federal Constitutional Court issued a decision on the surrender of patrimonial courts. April 1839 the jurisdiction of the manor went over Groptitz, Kalbitz and Seerhausen to the judicial office Oschatz, over a part of Winkwitz to the district office Meißen.<br /><br />In the possession of the family von Fritsch the manor Seerhausen reached its heyday. Thomas von Fritsch (1700-1775), ennobled in 1730 and raised to the rank of baron in 1742, had the moated castle there converted into a palatial residence and built numerous farm buildings until 1744. After his death the eldest son Jacob Friedrich (1731-1814) inherited the manor. He ceded the estate in 1800 to his first-born son Friedrich August (1768-1845), who left it to his brother Carl Wilhelm (1769-1851) in the same year. His successor was his eldest son Carl Friedrich Christian Wilhelm (1804-1892) after an amicable contract with his brothers and a settlement of the fief quanta (see also annex to the fief tribe).<a href="#B06"> <sup id="A06">[06]</sup></a><br /><br />The barons von Fritsch mentioned were all in public service in Dresden, Weimar and Frankfurt am Main. Thus <i>Thomas</i> was first active in Dresden as Court and Justice Councillor and Director of the Coin Cabinet, later as Imperial Court Councillor to Emperor Karl VII in Frankfurt/Main, then again in Dresden as Imperial Imperial Penny Master in the Upper and Lower Saxony Circles. As secret council and conference minister, he represented Saxony as negotiator at the Hubertusburg peace negotiations in 1763 and chaired these negotiations. <i>Jacob Friedrich</i> received his first employment already in 1754 as Legation Councillor at the government of Eisenach and was active from 1756 for decades as Privy Councillor and Court Councillor in Weimar, where he was also appointed head of the Privy Council in 1772. <i>Carl Wilhelm</i> already entered the service of the Grand Ducal Court of Saxony-Weimar at the age of 20 as court junker and assessor cum voto. Until 1843 he worked there as chamberlain, president of the state police college and minister of state. From 1819 he was in charge of the Weimarer Geheime Haupt- und Staatsarchiv (Weimar Secret Main and State Archives), conducted state correspondence and conducted business in German federal affairs. Both were closely related to the circle of Weimar classics.<i> Carl Friedrich Christian Wilhelm</i> served from 1827 in various functions, such as Court Junker, Chamber Junker, Secret Trainee, Chamberlain of the Grand Duke and Real Privy Councillor at the Court of Saxony-Weimar. The highlight of his professional career was certainly his activity as a state councillor and envoy of the Thuringian states to the Bundestag in Frankfurt/Main.<br /><br />Seerhausen Castle was for the von Fritsch family partly residence, partly only holiday. Until 1863, the estate itself was leased to the Roßberg family for about one and a half centuries. Karl Anton Emil von Fritsch (1837-1927), the younger son of Carl Friedrich Christian Wilhelm, was the first of Fritsch's fiefs not to take up civil service. In 1863 he leased the manor from his father, arranged for the construction of farm buildings and the conversion of the castle and took over Seerhausen completely in 1872. After temporary leasing from 1897, Karl Anton Emil handed the Seerhausen manor over to his son Karl Hugo (1869-1945) in 1920. He managed the manor with inspectors until its expropriation on 25 September 1945. According to a letter from the mayor of Seerhausen to the district administrator of the district of Oschatz, the last owner of the manor, together with his brother Carlo von Fritsch, became a knight on 22 October 1945.

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