Schwarzenberg reign

This article deals with the rule Schwarzenberg in the Ore Mountains, for the rule in the Klettgau see rule Schwarzenberg (Klettgau) , for the rule in the Black Forest see Schwarzenberg (noble family, Black Forest) .

Schwarzenberg Castle: center of rule

The Schwarzenberg rule was a territory in the Ore Mountains that emerged in the middle of the 12th century . After its acquisition by Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous in 1533, it was continued as an electoral Saxon administrative unit under the name of Kreisamt Schwarzenberg , which underwent considerable territorial changes over time.

geography

The rule joined the Vogtland to the east, extended to the south into the forests of the Westerzgebirgskammes from Auersberg to the Fichtelberg and was bounded by the rivers Schwarzwasser , Pöhlwasser and Große Mittweida and to the south by the watershed . The center of the rule was Schwarzenberg Castle , built around 1200 .

Adjacent administrative units

Dominion Wiesenburg Dominion Wildenfels	County of Hartenstein	Grünhain Monastery
Office Plauen (Vogtland)
Office Voigtsberg (Vogtland)	Kingdom of Bohemia

history

In the settlement of the Ore Mountains was in Schwarzenberg of the 12th century on a rocky cliff at the center Blackwater a castle built. With the associated rule were u. a. the Vogtland bailiffs , the burgraves of Leisnig and the lords of Tettau . Since the division of Leipzig in 1485, the office belonged to the Ernestine line of the Wettins. After the area was ravaged by the Hussites in the 15th century , there was an upswing at the beginning of the 16th century. The mining of tin and iron flourished, Schwarzenberg became a mining town in 1515 . In 1529 and 1532 the mining towns of Gottesgab and Platten , which were part of the dominion, were founded. After the Saxon elector Johann Friedrich I bought the Schwarzenberg rule for 20,700 Rhenish guilders from the brothers Albrecht, Christoph and Georg von Tettau in 1533, Eibenstock was also promoted to an electoral mining town in 1534. Due to the flourishing mining industry, capital flowed from Nuremberg and Schneeberg to Platten, where, as in Schwarzenberg, Eibenstock and Gottesgab, mountain areas were created.

Tettau officials

The following have been handed down as Tettau officials:

• Stephan von Brant (around 1470)
• Erhard Schopf (1489)
• Georg Brosius (1527)
• Georg Bäßler (1530)

See also

• List of the dominions (territories) of Germany

literature

• Walter Fröbe : Lordship and city of Schwarzenberg up to the 16th century. Schwarzenberg 1930/1937.
• Leo Bönhoff : The oldest offices of the Mark Meissen . In: New Archive for Saxon History . tape 38 , 1917, p. 17–45 ( digitized version ).
• Andreas Oettel: On the administrative structure in the western Ore Mountains around Schwarzenberg . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 59 (2013), Heft 3, pp. 211–215. ISSN  0486-8234