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History: In 1874, the Schwarzenberg administrative district was formed from the districts of the court offices of Eibenstock, Grünhain, Johanngeorgenstadt, Oberwiesenthal, Scheibenberg, Schneeberg and Schwarzenberg. In 1878 the Schönburg dominion of Stein was added. The official main team was supervised by the district main team Zwickau. It comprised the towns of Aue, Eibenstock, Grünhain, Johanngeorgenstadt, Lößnitz, Neustädtel, Schneeberg and Schwarzenberg and the municipalities of Affalter, Albernau, Alberode, Alt-Vorwerk, Antonsthal, Auerhammer, Beierfeld, Bermsgrün, Bernsbach, Blauenthal, Schindlersches Blaufarbenwerk, Bockau, Breitenbrunn, Breitenhof, Brünlasberg, Burkhardtsgrün, Carlsfeld, Crandorf, Dittersdorf, Dreihansen, Erla, Erlabrunn, Förstel, Globenstein, Griesbach, Grüna, Grünstädtel, Haide, Henneberg, Hundshübel, Jugel, Kleinpöhla, Klösterlein, Kugelhammer, Langenberg, Lauter, Lindenau, Markersbach, Mittweida, Mühlberg, Muldenhammer, Neidhardtsthal, Neudörfel, Neuheide, Neuwelt, Niederaffalter, Niederlößnitz, Niederpfannenstiel, Niederschlema, Oberaffalter, Oberpfannenstiel, Oberrittersgrün, Obersachsenfeld, Oberschlema, Oberstützengrün, Ottenstein, Pfeilhammer, Pöhla, Raschau, Rittersgrün, Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer, Sosa, Steinbach, Steinheidel, Streitwald, Unterrittersgrün, Untersachsenfeld, Unterstützengrün, Tellerhäuser, Waschleithe, Weitersglashütte, Wildenau, Wildenthal, Wittigsthal, Wolfsgrün, Zelle and Zschorlau.<br />The official organization existed with minor changes until 1945. The tasks were taken over by the Kreistag/Kreisrat Aue. In 1952, the territory of the Schwarzenberg administrative district was divided into the districts of Aue and Schwarzenberg and the districts of Johanngeorgenstadt and Schneeberg.<br />For further information see the introduction to the tectonic group 02.03.03.03.<br />The holdings also include documents from the Eibenstock, Hartenstein, Lichtenstein, Stein and Stollberg offices as well as the Eibenstock, Grünhain, Johanngeorgenstadt, Lößnitz, Oberwiesenthal, Scheibenberg, Schneeberg and Schwarzenberg court offices.<br /><br />Contents: Organisation of the judicial and administrative authorities.- Personnel.files.- District.administration.- Relations.with.foreign.states.- Military.matters.- War.matters.- Financial.matters.- Nationality.matters.- Church.matters.- Community.matters.- Medical.affairs.- Health.affairs.- Security.police.- Moral.police.- Fire.police.- Agricultural.affairs.- Forest.affairs.- Hunting.affairs.- Fishing.affairs.- Commercial.affairs.- Industrial.affairs.- Mining.affairs.- Construction.affairs.- Water.Police.Affairs.- Railway matters - Personal status matters - Insurance matters - District association of the official head office.<br /><br /> Detailed introduction: 1. history of the official head offices [01]<br /> Already during the establishment of the court offices in 1856 a future separation of the judiciary and the administration and a changed organization of the 14 official head offices had been envisaged. The extraordinarily rapid boom of the Saxon economy in the age of industrialisation and the associated rapid population growth made it necessary to intensify and differentiate the administrative activities in the local administration. Therefore, in 1874 the judiciary and administration were separated in the local instance as well. The court offices kept only the judiciary; from 1879 they were called district courts. In 1874, the administrative tasks of the court offices were transferred to 25 new official authorities, which at the same time took over the business of the previous 14 official authorities and the road and hydraulic engineering commissions. Until 1874 only one scribe had stood by the side of each governor. Now the official captains became fully trained authorities, which were each occupied by an official captain, one or more lawyers, one or more secretaries and several travel agents. The officials belonged first mostly to the nobility. Ernst in the 20th century, the share of the bourgeois prevailed.<br />The administrative authorities were the lower administrative authority in all matters for which there were no special authorities. They supervised all municipalities with the exception of the large cities of Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. Above all, they supervised the local police administration and, in some cases, exercised it themselves, insofar as it was not left to the municipalities. In addition to the security police, police matters dependent on the official police also included the provision of care for the poor and medical care, the supervision of trade and industry, agriculture and forestry, the building and fire police, insurance matters and savings banks, as well as citizenship matters and civil status. The official authorities were also responsible for financial and military matters, but only to the extent that they fell within the remit of the Ministry of the Interior. The older officials before 1874, on the other hand, had worked for the departments of several ministries.<br />An essential innovation characteristic of the bourgeois constitutional state was the fact that each official head formed a self-governing association, the district association. The district association was represented by the district assembly, which met on district days. The governor appointed the district conference at least once a year, chaired it and chaired the negotiations. The District Assembly was not a People's Assembly, but consisted of one third elected representatives of the highest taxpayers with an annual tax payment of 100 Taler and two thirds deputies of the towns and rural communities in the district. The district assembly could decide on facilities and expenses for charitable purposes and for this purpose decompose the district's assets, raise bonds and burden the district with taxes. It issued the district budget, managed the district assets, could submit applications to higher authorities, and could commission commissions or individuals for district purposes. The District Assembly elected the members of the District Committee and the District Committee. The District Committee, chaired by the Governor, consisted of at least 8 members. Each committee had to include at least two representatives of the most heavily taxed, two of the cities and two of the rural municipalities. The District Committee was attached to the Governor in order to participate in certain decisions or to serve him as an advisory body. The District Committee was called upon to decide, inter alia, on administrative and judicial matters relating to the residence for support and the obligations to provide for the poor, electoral complaints, disputes concerning contributions to the district and to the municipalities, applications for commercial and licensing licences, the creation of new public roads and certain land matters. The district committee was consulted for advice on general police measures in the district, on negotiations about state aid for road construction in the municipalities, on applications for the correction of watercourses and in a number of other cases prescribed or demanded by the superior authority or desired by the district governor.<br />In each district governorate, the district governor and a district school inspector together formed the district school inspection. This was a special authority, separate from the official government.[02] Unlike the official government, it was not subject to the Ministry of the Interior, but to the Ministry of Culture and Public Education (since 1923 Ministry of National Education). The files were processed both by the district governor and the district school inspector and were then kept with the registry of the district administration. Before 1874, school matters, together with church matters, had been dealt with by the Superintendent and a secular authority (office, city council, patrimonial court, from 1856 court office) in the church and school inspections. After the First World War, the district school inspectorates were called district school boards, the district school inspectors district school councils.<br />The superior authorities of the district governorates were the four district governorates, which in turn were headed by the Ministry of the Interior. Since 1874 there have been the following official teams:<br />- in the area of the district administration of Bautzen: Bautzen, Kamenz, Löbau, Zittau<br />- in the area of the Kreishauptmannschaft Dresden: Dresden, Dippoldiswalde, Freiberg, Großenhain, Meißen, Pirna<br />- in the area of the Kreishauptmannschaft Leipzig: Leipzig, Borna, Döbeln, Grimma, Oschatz, Rochlitz<br />- in the area of the Kreishauptmannschaft Zwickau: Annaberg, Auerbach, Chemnitz, Flöha, Marienberg, Oelsnitz, Plauen, Schwarzenberg, Zwickau<br />In the particularly large official teams of Dresden, Pirna, Freiberg and Zwickau there were official delegations in Döhlen, Schandau, Sayda and Crimmitschau. These delegations were branch-offices of the Headquarters, but not separate authorities. The delegations in Crimmitschau, Schandau and Döhlen existed only for a few years, the delegation in Sayda, on the other hand, existed for decades until 1939.<br />1878, the Schönburg reign of power was completely integrated into the Saxon state. They formed the Glauchau official headquarters, while smaller parts fell to the Zwickau and Schwarzenberg official headquarters.<br />1880 the Dresden official headquarters was divided into two official headquarters, Dresden-Altstadt and Dresden-Neustadt, which were reunited in 1924.<br />In 1900 a new district administration team Chemnitz was separated from the district administration team Zwickau with the district administrations Chemnitz, Annaberg, Flöha, Glauchau and Marienberg.<br />1910 the district administration team Stollberg was created by separation from the district administration team Chemnitz.<br />In Werdau a branch office of the district administration team was founded in 1919, which was subordinate to the district administration team Zwickau. This branch office was raised already in 1920 to an independent office head team, which was united however 1933 again with Zwickau.<br />The district head team Bautzen was abolished 1932 and united with Dresden.<br />1939 the names office head team and district head team were replaced by the names now standardized in the whole German realm circle (district or city circle) and administrative district. The district governor and the district governor were named Landrat and Regierungspräsident respectively. Their authorities were also given this designation, tailored to an individual person, because under the conditions of the authoritarian regime, in accordance with the Führer Principle, it was not the anonymous authority but the responsible head of authority who was to be decisive.<br />After 1945, the subordinate authorities of the internal administration were no longer referred to as the district administrator, but as the council of the district, as had occasionally been the case since 1943. The classification of the administrative districts remained essentially unchanged for the time being. The district of Stollberg was dissolved in 1950 and distributed among the neighbouring districts. In 1951 the district of Aue (formerly Schwarzenberg) was restructured into the two districts of Aue and Schwarzenberg and the two city districts of Johanngeorgenstadt and Schneeberg due to its rapid economic upswing and strong population growth due to ore mining. The three districts of Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz (since 1953 Karl-Marx-Stadt) took its place, including neighbouring areas of the former states of Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Silesia. A new circle division was also carried out. In the district of Dresden, 15 rural districts and 2 urban districts were formed, in the district of Leipzig 12 rural districts and one urban district and in the district of Chemnitz / Karl-Marx-Stadt 21 rural districts and 5 urban districts (together 48 rural districts and 8 urban districts) were formed. The new districts were considerably smaller and therefore more numerous than the official authorities and their successor districts, so that a greater proximity of the district authorities to the population was achieved.<br /><br /><br />>2. History of the official authorities Schwarzenberg[03]<br />>The official authorities Schwarzenberg was established in 1874 from villages of the court offices Grünhain, Eibenstock, Johanngeorgenstadt, Oberwiesenthal, Scheibenberg, Schneeberg and Schwarzenberg. It belonged to the Zwickau district administration. In 1878 the communities of Alberode, Grüna, Lößnitz, Niederaffalter, Niederlößnitz, Niederpfannenstiel, Oberaffalter, Oberpfannenstiel and Streitwald were added from the Schönburg dominions. The official administration covered an area of about 510 km2 along the border to Bohemia. Mining, metal and wood industry, weaving mills, lace-making with the centre in Schneeberg, laundry and white goods industry, quarries, trade, tourism and above all the relations to the neighbouring Bohemia formed this area. While the area of the official administration remained almost unchanged, the population increased steadily until the First World War, then decreased and only in 1927 reached the level of 1909.<br /><br />1874 approx. 90,000 inhabitants<br />1882/1883 90,341 inhabitants<br />1890/1891 95,253 inhabitants<br />1894 101.542 inhabitants<br />1897 108,375 inhabitants<br />1902 122,267 inhabitants<br />1907 132,711 inhabitants<br />1921 139,204 inhabitants<br />1925 115,414 inhabitants<br />1927 130,506 inhabitants<br /><br />A well-developed railway and road network connected the individual towns with each other and with neighbouring areas. Many of the towns belonging to the Schwarzenberg district administration were summer resorts or winter sports grounds. Since the mid-1920s, the hiking enthusiasts have been transported to this region on a widely ramified network of bus routes.<br /><br />The following places belonged to the Schwarzenberg administrative headquarters[04] : Affalter, Niederaffalter, Oberaffalter, Albernau, Alberode, Alt-Vorwerk, Antonsthal, Aue, Auerhammer, Beierfeld, Bermsgrün, Bernsbach, Blauenthal, Schindlersches Blaufarbenwerk, Bockau, Breitenbrunn, Breitenhof, Brünlasberg, Burkhardtsgrün, Carlsfeld, Crandorf, Dittersdorf, Dreihansen, Eibenstock[05] , Erla (with Hirschstein district), Erlabrunn, Förstel, Weitersglashütte, Globenstein, Griesbach, Grüna, Grünhain, Grünstädtel, Haide, Henneberg, Hundshübel, Johanngeorgenstadt[06] , Jugel, Klösterlein, Kugelhammer, Langenberg, Lauter, Lindenau, Lößnitz[07] , Niederlößnitz, Markersbach, Mittweida, Mühlberg, Muldenhammer, Neidhardtsthal, Neudörfel, Neuheide, Neustädtel, Neuwelt, Ottenstein, Niederpfannenstiel, Oberpfannenstiel, Pfeilhammer, Pöhla, Kleinpöhla, Raschau, Rittersgrün, Oberrittersgrün, Unterrittersgrün, Obersachsenfeld, Untersachsenfeld, Niederschlema, Oberschlema, Schneeberg[08] , Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer, Schwarzenberg, Sosa, Steinbach, Steinheidel, Streitwald, Oberstützengrün, Unterstützengrün, plate houses (with district Zweibach), Waschleithe, Wildenau, Wildenthal, Wittigsthal, Wolfsgrün, cell, Zschorlau.<br /><br />Schwarzenberg, situated on the Schwarzwasser, had 12,097 inhabitants in 1933 and was the seat of various authorities and schools, such as:<br />- Amtshauptmannschaft,<br />- Amtsgericht,<br />- Finanzamt,<br />- Zollamt,<br />- Eisenbahnbetriebsamt,<br />- Reichsbanknotenstelle,<br />- Handels-, Gewerbe-, Klöppel-, Frauen- und Haushaltungsschulen.<br /><br />Aue, situated at the mouth of the Schwarzwasser into the Zwickauer Mulde, had 21,300 inhabitants in 1925. Due to the rich industry and the favourable traffic situation between the upper Erzgebirge and the industrial places of Saxony, this city has developed to an important industrial place at the upper Mulde. At authorities and schools the town of Aue was spun off from the area of responsibility of the district administration Schwarzenberg and got a self-administration. The town of Aue was spun off from the area of responsibility of the district administration Schwarzenberg in 1914. In 1929 the municipality of Alberode was transferred to the town of Aue, in 1930 the municipality of Auerhammer followed and in 1939 the municipality of Bernsbach.<br /><br />The building of the official headquarters was located in Schwarzenberg, Obere Schloßstraße. At the head of this authority were:<br />1874 - 1877 Gustav Adolf Vodel<br />1877 - 1898 Karl Ado Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr von Wirsing<br />1898 - 1902 Dr. jur. Friedrich Ludwig Albrecht Krug von Nidda and von Falkenstein<br />1903 - 1910 Martin Konrad Demmering<br />1910 - 1919 Dr. Ernst Ferdinand Wimmer<br />191919 - 1922 Dr. Wolfgang Kaestner<br />1922 - Christian Klemens Ferdinad von Schwartz<br />1933 - [1939] Dr. jur. Georg Harry von Craushaar<br />1940 - 1944 Dr. Gerhard Zesch<br />(Klein, Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte Bd. 14 Sachsen, S. 408)<br /><br />Since the beginning of the 20th century, the far larger and economically better-off town of Aue has made a claim to the seat of an official authority. A division of the previous authorities or the relocation of the authorities from Schwarzenberg to Aue was to be forced (cf. Abt. III des Bestandes und verschiedene an die Standnde Versammlung des Königreichs Sachsen eingereichte petitions)<br /><br /><br />3. Inventory history and inventory analysis<br />The inventory of the official authorities of Schwarzenberg was transferred to the Dresden State Archives in several levies between 1951 and 1985; supplemented by further additions from the Döbeln Road Construction Office (2008) and files from other inventories. After completion of the processing, it comprises 123.65 linear metres with approx. 10,000 file units from the period from (1818 - 1873) 1874 - 1960.<br />Individual volumes of files have been issued and incorporated by the previous authorities of the official headquarters since 1856 or by the offices.<br />The processing essentially took place between 1969 / 1970 and 1974. The archive plan for the "official headquarters of 1874" was used as an order scheme and expanded in accordance with the existing files. The cassation took place on the basis of the "Kassationrichtlinie für die Amtshauptmannschaften" (Cassation Guideline for the Official Government) drawn up in 1964 in the then Saxon State Main Archives.<br /><br />This collection contains important documents on the history of the German labour movement, on the development of industry and transport in the upper Erzgebirge, as well as on the history of the place and the homeland (Dept. XI, XIV, XVIII and XIX). The economic, political and social development after the I. The special inventory "Archivalische Quellennachweise zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung", Part 3 including the supplementary collection prepared for this purpose, contains all documents on the labour movement in this area. A special inventory compiled in the Dresden State Archives provides information on the joint struggle of KPD-KPC.<br /><br /> Like every official authority, the Schwarzenberg official authority also formed its own district association. Particularly numerous are the files from the period after 1920 on housing construction, flood protection and dam construction, the establishment of motor vehicle and motor mail lines, the creation and expansion of the district institute, the district youth hostel and the district children's home. <br />The files of the district welfare association form a separate group at the end of the collection.<br /><br />The present finding aid is the result of a conversion of the typewritten finding aid already available for this stock from 1988.<br />The aim of the conversion was to improve the search possibilities by entering it into the Augias Archive indexing database. The typewritten information was converted into digital form without any significant change in content. The terminology used in the 1988 find book, which also reflects the social conditions at the time of processing, thus remained unaffected. This applies both to the individual units of description and to the introduction to the find book. Adjustments to the file titles of a volume series and other additions without relationship of the files were marked by square brackets. A - technically desirable - revision cannot take place at present due to capacity reasons.<br />The units of registration have been assigned to the unit classification available for the official headquarters in the Chemnitz State Archives. The main approach was based on the allocation to the 1988 classification groups, but sometimes corrected on the basis of the file numbers. The original classification was transferred to the database Augias-Archiv and can be displayed there.<br />In addition to the old find book, the new version also lists files that were handed over between 2002 and 2008 by the Saxon State Archives Dresden, the Saxon Mountain Archives Freiberg and the Road Construction Office Döbeln.<br />The present finding aid book is thus only very limited result of a new treatment; it reflects essentially the state of treatment of 1988.<br /><br /> In addition, the following holdings in the Chemnitz State Archives should be pointed out:<br />33258 Gerichtsamt Grünhain 1822 - 1868 (if applicable 30136 Local court Schwarzenberg)<br />33256 Court office Eibenstock 1842 - 1871 (if applicable 30107 Local court Eibenstock)<br />33035 Court office Scheibenberg 1844 - 1875 (if applicable 30133 Local Court Scheibenberg)<br />33111 Court office Schneeberg 1854 - 1879 (if applicable 30134 Local Court Schneeberg)<br />33259 Court office Schwarzenberg 1846 - 1866 (if applicable 30136 District Court Schwarzenberg)<br />33043 Older District Council Zwickau 1704 - 1874<br />30040 District Council Zwickau 1842 - 1944<br />30402 District Council Aue 1945 - 1958<br />30364 District School Office Schwarzenberg 1730 - 1945<br />Funds of Special Administrations<br /><br />5. Sources and Literature<br />Karlheinz BLASCHKE: Administrative History of the State - Saxon Administrative History, Fachschule für Archivwesen Potsdam Lehrbrief 3, 1958.<br /><br />Karlheinz BLASCHKE: The Spread of the State in Saxony and the Expansion of its Spatial Administrative Districts; in: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte, 91. vol., 1954, p. 74 - 109<br /><br />Richard DIETRICH: die Verwaltungsreform in Sachsen 1869 - 1873; in: New Archive for Saxon History, Vol. 61, 1940, p. 49 ff.<br /><br />Reiner GROß: Die Entwicklung der sächsischen Regionalverwaltung, illustrated using the example of the Leipziger Kreis (16, - 20th century), ms. 1960<br /><br />Floor plan of the German administrative history 1815 - 1945, series B, volume 14: Saxony, edited by Thomas KLEIN: Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Institut Marburg/Lahn, 1982.<br /><br />Helga-Maria KÜHN: History of the Saxon Central Authorities in the Meissen District, ms. 1959<br /><br />Claus LASKE: History of the Saxon Central Authorities in the Erzgebirge District, ms. 1959<br /><br />C. from the MOSEL: Handwörterbuch des Verwaltungsrechts<br /><br />Dr. Felix WACH: Königlich Sächsisches Gesetz die Organisation für die innere Verwaltung betreffend vom 21. April 1873 sowie den damit Zusammenhänge stehenden Gesetze und Verordnungen, Juristische Handbibliothek Band 337, Leipzig 1905<br /><br />Description of the older architectural and artistic monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony, <br />edited by Dr. R. Steche, Dresden, 1886<br /><br /><br />>6. Recommendation for quotation and ordering of the holdings 30049 Amtshauptmannschaft Schwarzenberg<br /><br />[01] Introduction for the holdings of the Amtshauptmannschaften by Dr. G. Schmidt, June 1967 (cf. ms. Findbuch zum Bestand 30041 Amtshauptmannschaft Annaberg)<br />[02] cf. A 1356/62 of the Hauptstaatsarchivs Dresden.<br />[03] Introduction to the holdings 30049 Amtshauptmannschaft Schwarzenberg by Sigrid Winar, 1988; partly revised, 2009.<br />[04] Historical place index of Saxony, edited by Karlheinz Blaschke.<br />[05] Seat of the Local Court and the Main Customs Office.<br />[06] Seat of the Local Court and the Secondary Customs Office.<br />[07] Seat of the Local Court.<br />[08] Seat of the Local Court and the Upper Tax Control.
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