Dobnagau
Dobnagau , also Gau Dobena , was a medieval Gau in Vogtland , which included the later lordships of Plauen and Voigtsberg (today's district of Oelsnitz (Vogtland) ). It originated during the colonization in the east and belonged to the Zeitz region and spiritually to the diocese of Naumburg-Zeitz . It is named after today's Plauen district of Dobenau .
history
From around the beginning of the 12th century, family members of the Counts of Everstein from southern Lower Saxony (also known as Eberstein ) came to the Plauen area and managed the development of the country by clearing and settling mainly Frankish settlers in the previously Slavic areas. In their wake they also brought knights into the country as ministerials and locators . The first seat of the Eversteiners was on the Dobenaufelsen in the Syratal (today a district of Plauen), only small remnants have survived.
Shortly before 1122, Adalbert von Everstein donated the St. John's Church in Plauen . It was consecrated in 1122 by Bishop Dietrich I of Naumburg . The area was first mentioned in a document as pagus Dobna , with the vicus plawe (Plauen). At that time, the Eversteiners had probably already moved their seat to their city castle on the southwest corner of the Plauen wall ring, the remnant of which is today's Malzhaus . This city castle was first mentioned in a document in 1224.
At this time the Eversteiners had probably already returned to their homeland in the Weser Uplands (or the main line based there had inherited the new Dobnagau foundation ). Because in 1236 Plauen appears for the first time in the possession of the Weida bailiffs . Apparently Heinrich II "the rich" († around 1209) of Weida, Gera and Greiz was enfeoffed with Plauen by the Eversteiners and, like them, also had a lion in their coat of arms. The bailiffs of Plauen then built the Plauen Castle as their seat.
On May 25, 1278, the previous sovereign, Count Konrad von Everstein from Lower Saxony, personally came to Plauen and assigned the city of Plauen and Gau Dobena to his brother-in-law, Vogt Heinrich I. Heinrich obviously remained in a loose feudal association with the Count of Everstein, his older son Heinrich II. "The Bohemian" founded the line of the bailiffs of Plauen , the younger, Heinrich Ruthenus , "the Russian", founded the younger line, which later became the royal house Reuss . The Vogt family then ruled except in Plauen in the lines of the governors of Weida and the governors of Gera . The Vogtland is named after her.
It was not until 1328 that Count Hermann von Everstein renounced all fiefs in the "Dobe area" . The bailiffs at Plauen came under Bohemian feudal rule in 1327. In the Vogtland War of 1354–57, the bailiffs of Weida, Gera and Plauen lost most of their property to Emperor Charles IV and the Wettins . Plauen became Electoral Saxon. The Plauen Vogtslinie, which meanwhile lived in Meißen, only went out with the death of Heinrich VI. von Plauen on January 22nd, 1572. His property fell to the related Reussians.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Billig / Heinz Müller , Burgen, Witnesses of Saxon History, Neustadt 1998, p. 30