Lordship of Kriebstein

The rule of Kriebstein was a territorial administrative unit in the Electorate of Saxony . It had belonged to the Rochlitz office since 1588 , but remained in the possession of various noble families.

Geographical location

The Kriebstein rule lay on both sides of the Zschopau north of Mittweida in the central Saxon hill country . Today the area is in the north of the Central Saxony district .

Adjacent gentlemen

Geringswalde Monastery	Amt Leisnig and Amt Colditz (exclave)
Office Rochlitz		Office Chub
Reign of new care	Enclaves: County Office Freiberg , Office Nossen	Office of Nossen

history

The Castle Kriebstein was in the 14th century by the Lords of Beerwalde built. In 1395 the rule of Waldheim was united with the rule of Kriebstein by Friedrich von Schönburg .

The property of the von Beerwalde family was a fiefdom of the Margrave of Meißen and before 1400 included the towns of Waldheim and Hartha . Around 1407, Dietrich von Beerwalde , court master of Landgrave Balthasar , was a liege on Kriebstein. He expanded Kriebstein Castle into the family residence. The castle Waldheim was a convent of Augustinian monks , which until the dissolution result of the Reformation was in the 1549th

After Dietrich's death in 1408, the rule of Kriebstein fell to his widow Elisabeth and, after her death, to his daughter Klara as personal treasures . In 1465 the castle and rule of Kriebstein were founded by Hugold III. von Schleinitz , the Obermarschall of Elector Ernst and Duke Albrecht . After Hugold von Schleinitz's death in 1490, there were frequent changes of ownership.

In 1529 Ernst von Schönburg took over the Kriebstein castle and office on a lease basis. Two years later, a purchase agreement replaced the lease. In 1537, the Saxon-Albertine Duke Georg the Bearded bought back the lordship and castle of Kriebstein and transferred it, together with the Office of Rochlitz, to the widow of his older son Johann, the Duchess Elisabeth , born Landgrave of Hesse, who died on January 11, 1537, after her widow's seat , from then on is usually referred to as Duchess Elisabeth von Rochlitz. Elisabeth allowed Lutheran teaching in her area since 1537, when her father-in-law still adhered strictly to Catholicism in the rest of the Albertine Duchy of Saxony. In 1543 the Duke commissioned his official Wolf von Schönberg to negotiate with Elisabeth about the early resignation of Kriebstein. The negotiations led to success. Elisabeth received the Thuringian offices in Dornburg and Camburg and renounced Kriebstein. In the same year, Duke Moritz sold the Vorwerk and village of Grünberg, which belonged to the secularized Döbeln monastery , along with Höckendorf, Meinsberg and Moosheim, including the Nonnenwalde, to Georg von Carlowitz (1544–1550), the new owner of the Kriebstein estate.

Under Carlowitz, the rule of Kriebstein reached its greatest territorial extent with 33 villages and the two cities of Waldheim and Hartha . After the death of Georg von Carlowitz (1550), the rule was divided among his sons in 1561. It emerged u. a. the rule Ehrenberg and the rule Waldheim. In 1588, the Saxon elector Christian I acquired the Carlowitz property of the former Kriebstein rule and integrated them into the Rochlitz office .

In the 17th century, Kriebstein Castle belonged to the von Schönberg family and then to the Lords of Milkau . In 1825, Hans Carl acquired by Arnim from the house Planitz with Zwickau the Kriebstein , which then remained in the possession of the family von Arnim until the expropriation in the 1945th