Reign of Heinrichsgrün

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The rule Heinrichsgrün (Czech Jindřichovice ) was a rule in the Elbogen district in Bohemia . With the formation of the judicial districts in 1848/49, inheritance and patrimonial jurisdiction were abolished .

location

The rule was in the northern part of the district. It bordered on the north on the Kingdom of Saxony and on the rule Neudek (Nejdek), on the east on the rule Neudek and Elbogen (Loket), on the south on the rule Falkenau (Sokolov) and Hartenberg (Hřebeny), on the west on the rule Hartenberg and Graslitz (Kraslice) ).

history

In the Middle Ages, the area covered by forests and swamps belonged to the property of the Teplá Monastery . Heinrichsgrün was first mentioned in writing in 1273. A document from King Wenceslaus VI. describes the mountains of Heinrichsgrün as property of the city of Falkenau. In 1434 King Sigismund pledged it to the burgrave of Eger Kaspar Schlick . After Mathäus Schlick's death in 1487, his eldest son Nikolaus Schlick received a share of the Heinrichsgrün rule, along with Falkenau, Seeberg, Neudek, Tüppelsgrün and Voigtsgrün. Heinrichsgrün had joint landlords with Falkenau ever since.

Under the rule of the Schlicks , tin mining reached its peak for the time being in the first half of the 16th century. The Reformation also found its way into the area . In a document from 1537, Count Viktorin Schlick Heinrichsgrün confirmed the full city privileges. At that time, Heinrichsgrün consisted of 55 properties that had to cede a guilder of hereditary interest to the rulers twice a year. In 1546 Heinrichsgrün received its own coat of arms.

In 1556/60 the two sons of Viktorin Schlick I divided the estate, with Abundus Schlick Heinrichsgrün and Niklas Schlick Schönlind receiving them. After Count Niklas Schlick's death, Heinrichsgrün inherited his widow Agnes nee. Countess of Lippa. In 1582, Schönlind passed to Viktorin Schlick II, who in turn bequeathed it to his four sons in 1600/1601. Since none of the heirs was able to pay the others, in 1602 they sold the indebted rulership, consisting of the villages of Schönlind, Schindelwald and Kohling, as well as the mountain town of Frühbuss, to their brother-in-law, knight Niklas von Globen .

Heinrichsgrün has belonged to Count Joachim Schlick since 1612 . In 1621 the leader of the Protestant estates in Prague was executed. The lordship was confiscated and sold as a free fief in 1627 to the Reichshofrat, treasurer and vice-chancellor Otto Freiherr von Nostitz , who died childless in 1630. On November 28, 1628, he had also acquired the neighboring Schönlind estate from Niklas von Globen. Schönlind was reunited with Heinrichsgrün through purchase. The consequences of the Thirty Years War , famine and plague epidemics had decimated the population significantly.

According to the will of April 16, 1630 Otto von Nostitz designated his nephew Johann Hartwig Graf von Nositzt-Rieneck as the universal heir on the condition that he had to convert to the Catholic faith. He promoted the Counter Reformation in his rule . Recatholization caused numerous miners and local glassmakers to migrate across the border to Kursachsen. In 1672 he had a new manorial castle built in Heinrichsgrün. After him the property passed to his eldest son, the royal governor and high court master Anton Johann Reichsgraf von Nositzt-Rieneck. After his death in 1736 it was inherited by his son Franz Wenzel, Count of Nostitz-Rieneck. 1794 owned the lords of Friedrich Graf von Nostitz-Rieneck.

In 1832 the rulership comprised two towns, a market and thirteen villages, with 1,228 residential buildings and 8,940 inhabitants, most of whom are active in agriculture, lace making and the local ironworks. In 1848/49 the patrimonial rule was abolished. The landlords were thus only landowners. Until the expulsion and expropriation in 1945, the property remained in the hands of the Nostitz-Rieneck family.

Localities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bohuslav Balbín: Liber curialis C. VI. from the various courts of justice of the Kingdom of Bohemia . Haase, 1812 ( google.de [accessed January 19, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Johann Gottfried Sommer: The Kingdom of Bohemia: represented statistically and topographically. Elbogner Kreis . Ehrlich, 1847 ( google.de [accessed January 19, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Latest country and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands . Diesbach, 1832 ( google.de [accessed January 19, 2020]).