the economics of the abbey fell into disorder. In 1533 the abbot absconded with the abbey's portable valuables. In addition, Emperor Ferdinand I demanded high contributions from the Lower Lusatian abbeys to finance the Turkish wars. Finally, in 1541, Johann Friedrich I, Elector of Saxony, occupied Dobrilugk, because of a financial claim he had against the King of Bohemia, in whose territory it was. The monks abandoned the monastery and the community was dissolved. Although the Roman Catholic Ferdinand I was able to win back the abbey lordship in the Schmalkaldic War and reincorporate it into Lower Lusatia, he too kept the monks from returning, and instead mortgaged the extensive territory to several members in turn of the noble families of Schlick and Gersdorff. Heinrich von Gersdorff in about 1550 had a hunting lodge built to replace the abbot's house. The last owner of the nobility, Heinrich Anselm von Promnitz, sold Dobrilugk in 1624 to Johann Georg of Saxony, who shortly before had become the mortgagee of the whole of Lower Lusatia. The Lower Lusatian parliament had however been able to bring it about that the abbatial territory remained part of the margravate. So the curious situation arose that the lordship of Dobrilugk belonged administratively both to Lower Lusatia and Kursachsen. Subjects paid their taxes into the Lower Lusatia exchequer, but answered to the justice of the officials of the Saxon Elector, appeal from which could only be made to the Chamber Court in Dresden and no longer to the Lower Lusatia State Court. Under the Wettin collateral line of Sachsen-Merseburg (1656–1738) Dobrilugk was a secondary residence of the dukes and the region enjoyed a new period of prosperity. Bibliography Arnt Cobbers: Zisterzienserkloster Doberlug (= Der historische Ort, 68). Berlin 1998. Felix Engel: Die Reformation in Dobrilugk und Kirchhain, in: Brandenburgisches Genealogisches Jahrbuch 8 (2014), pp. 6–25. Stefanie Fink: Die Klosterkirche zu Doberlug. Görlitz/Zittau 2014 Andreas Hanslok: Die Anfänge des Gesundheitswesens in Kirchhain, im Kloster und der Stadt Dobrilugk, in: Der Speicher, Heft 2 (1998): pp. 13–17. Andreas Hanslok: Die Teiche des Klosters Dobrilugk – eine Bestandsaufnahme, in: Der Speicher, Heft 12 (2009): pp. 19–26. Andreas Hanslok: Die Visitation – eine Kommunikationsform innerhalb des Zisterzienserordens – Das Kloster Dobrilugk als Beispiel, in: Der Speicher, Heft 13 (2010): pp. 77–84. Andreas Hanslok: Die Fußbodenfliesen des Zisterzienserklosters Doberlug, in: Brandenburgische Denkmalpflege, Heft 1 (2011): pp. 95–104. Rudolf Lehmann: Die älteste Geschichte des