Schneeberg Treaty
In the Schneeberg Treaty of October 1556, disputes over the exact course of the border between Bohemia and Saxony were settled.
prehistory
On October 14, 1546, the Prague Treaty was signed between Emperor Charles V and Duke Moritz of Saxony . Moritz of Saxony promised u. a., to hand over the Vogtland and the Saxon mountain towns of Gottesgab and Platten to the Kingdom of Bohemia .
contract
There were often arguments about the exact course of the demarcation. The division of the Schwarzenberg rule was only confirmed with the Schneeberg Treaty, made in some sources on October 6th and in other sources on October 26th, 1556 . Platten and Gottesgab finally came to Bohemia, but Eibenstock and Schwarzenberg remained with Electoral Saxony . In July 1558 32 rain stones were set and 112 rain trees were marked with crosses.
Course of the new frontier
The new border was drawn from east to west along the Mückenbach from its confluence with the Pöhlwasser to the source, from there dead straight to the source of the Ortbach and from there in a dead straight line to the confluence of the Breitenbach into the Schwarzwasser, then up the Breitenbach to the mouth of the Jugelwassers, further along the Jugelwassers to the mouth of the Pechhöfer Bach and following this to the source and from there, finally, straight to the Neudek border .
Further objects of the contract
The agreements reached in 1546 between Johann Friedrich I and Moritz about half the mining rights (the so-called half-arbitration) in this area, the full hunting rights that the new Electorate Saxony now had under Moritz, was taken over by the Bohemian Crown. The rights to lend mines remained with the respective sovereigns. There were often complaints about the exact billing. Elector August demanded the exact account at the Reichstag in Augsburg. Further complaints followed in 1575, 1647 and 1750 and changed little about the situation. Due to the decline in mining, including the move of miners with Protestant beliefs to neighboring Saxony after the Counter-Reformation , there were more and more additional payments, as the salaries of the Plattener and Gottesgaber mining officials were shared. From 1829 onwards, negotiations were held for a final clarification. It was only through the enactment of fundamental mining regulations in Saxony and Austria-Hungary that contractual agreements were made and both sides waived mutual rights and claims.
literature
- Historia Schneebergensis renovata - Schneeberg city and mountain chronic. 1716 ( digitized version ), extended reprint 1994, part one, page 11
- Andreas Erb: Special inventory on mining in Platten und Gottesgab , in: Sächsisches Archivblatt 2/2006, p. 14 ( Link to Sächsisches Archivblatt 2/2006 The journal cannot be called directly, it can be downloaded as a PDF file.) The article deals with also the Schneeberg Treaty.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Rain stones are stones that are set to mark a boundary. This term was already used in the Middle Ages, namely in 1387. S. Lemma Rainstein in the German Legal Dictionary ( link to the digital version of the legal dictionary of the University of Heidelberg )
- ↑ See evidence in note 1 (“malbome”) and Rainbaum in the German legal dictionary
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Erb: Special inventory on mining in Platten und Gottesgab , in: Sächsisches Archivblatt 2/2006, p. 14 ( Link to Sächsisches Archivblatt 2/2006 The journal cannot be called directly, it can be downloaded as a PDF file), access on January 3, 2019
- ↑ History of the town of Boži Dar on the website of the town of Boží Dar , accessed on January 3, 2020