Rule of Schwarza

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The rulership of Schwarza was a territory in the Franconian Empire , which was owned from 1676 by the Counts of Stolberg , who finally renounced their rights in 1886 in favor of the local community of Schwarza , located in the Kingdom of Prussia .

history

Schwarza has belonged to the Hartenberg line (later Römhild) since the Counts of Henneberg divided up the country in 1274. The place developed into the administrative center of the hard mountain-Romanhildischen free float in northern Franconia . When this line died out with Count Albrecht von Henneberg-Römhild in 1549, an inheritance dispute that lasted over 100 years developed out of which, in 1676, Schwarza came to the Count of Stolberg, who ruled in the Harz region . However, the largest number of the official villages of the former Schwarza office fell to the Wettins and went to the Kühndorf office , which belonged to Saxony-Zeitz from 1660 and to the Electorate of Saxony from 1718 and became Prussian in 1815.

From 1710 to 1748 there was the Stolberg-Schwarza line as a separate branch of the older main line of the Stolberg Count's House. This branch was founded by the youngest son of Count Ludwig Christian zu Stolberg . After Count Heinrich August zu Stolberg-Schwarza died in 1748 without sons, his property fell back to the main Stolberg-Wernigerode line. His widow moved to Wernigerode , where she resided in the slate house at the Lustgarten .

Over and over again there were different opinions about the sovereignty and the rights that the Wettins and the Counts of Stolberg exercised in the small rulership of Schwarza. The advance of Count Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode at the Congress of Vienna to swap Schwarza for the town of Hasserode , located in the middle of the county of Wernigerode in front of the western gate in Wernigerode in the direction of Brocken , could not be realized.

A second attempt, the legal status of the Graflich-Stolberg-Wernigerödischen rule Schwarza, which had been in the Schleusingen district of the Erfurt administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony since 1815, was made in 1860, but he too remained without an agreement. Ultimately, in 1886, Count Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode sold his remaining rights to the Schwarza rulership, which was mainly used as a count's domain, to the local community.

The administrative center of the Schwarza rule was the castle in the center of the village.

literature

  • Jörg Brückner : Between imperial estates and estates: the Counts of Stolberg and their relationship to the Landgraves of Thuringia and later dukes, electors and kings of Saxony (1210 to 1815). , Dößel (Saalkreis): Stekovics 2005, ISBN 3-89923-119-8 ( online edition ; PDF; 4.1 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. Uwe Lagatz : Between Ancien Régime and Modernization , Halle (Saale), mdv, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2003.