Schwarzburg special houses suzerainty

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Several parts of the area in Central and Southern Thuringia were designated as the supremacy of the county or, since 1697, the principality of the House of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen - named after the topography, in contrast to the Schwarzburg-Sondershausen subordinate rule . These once belonged to the possessions of the Lords of Schwarzburg , Count Günther XL. , the rich , united to maximum size in the county of Schwarzburg . These were divided between his four sons in the Stadtilm Treaty in 1571 and again in 1574.

The counties of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen came into being under Johann Günther I , Schwarzburg-Frankenhausen under Wilhelm I , and Schwarzburg-Arnstadt under Günther XLI. and Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt under Albrecht VII.

Dates of the Schwarzburg special houses suzerainty

Geographical expansion

The Schwarzburg special houses suzerainty with the towns of Arnstadt and Gehren as centers extended from the southern Thuringian Basin in the north over the Reinsberge to the ridge of the Thuringian Forest and Thuringian Slate Mountains with the Rennsteig in the south. It comprised parts of the Gera , Wipfra , Ilm , Wohlrose and Schwarza rivers . The offices of Arnstadt in the north and Gehren in the south were separated from each other by a small corridor. The area also included the exclaves Rockhausen in the north and Geschwenda in the west.

The dominant area is now mostly in the northern central part (Amt Arnstadt) and in the south (Amt Gehren) of the Ilm district in the southern center of the Free State of Thuringia . Today only Masserberg belongs to the district of Hildburghausen and the places Garsitz, Oelze and Schwarzmühle to the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt .

Adjacent administrative units

Until the middle of the 17th century

The areas bordering on the Schwarzburg special houses sovereignty belonged to different states at different times. While the Schwarzburg-Rudolstädter sovereignty followed in the east , the Eisfelder area in the southwest belonged to the Coburg maintenance department from 1375 . The office of Ilmenau, which followed in the west, came to the county of Henneberg in 1343 and, like the office of Schleusingen, after the Count of Henneberg died out from 1583 to 1660 under the joint administration of the Saxon-Wettin Albertines and Ernestines. The places to the northwest of the Schwarzburg special houses sovereignty belonged to various Ernestine duchies before 1645 . The area adjacent to the city of Erfurt in the north came under the rule of Kurmainz in 1648 . The rulership of Kranichfeld , which followed to the northeast and consisted of the upper and lower rulers, was at different times under the rule of different sovereigns.

Mid-17th century to early 19th century

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the various divisions of the Ernestine duchies and the real division of the county of Henneberg (1660) changed the political affiliations of the neighboring territories. From 1660/80 to 1815 the Schwarzburg special houses suzerainty bordered on the following areas:

Early 19th century to 1918

Due to the regulations of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 the Electoral Saxon portion of the county of Henneberg and the Erfurt area came to Prussia . In 1826 the Ernestine duchies were reorganized. As a result, the Schwarzburg special houses sovereignty has since bordered the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in the northeast and west, the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in the north-west and the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen in the south-west and north-east . Only the Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt supremacy in the east did not change their affiliation.

Associated areas

The state territory of the sovereignty of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen consisted of the two separate areas Arnstadt and Gehren . There were also two exclaves . The Schwarzburg special houses part formed the western part of the Schwarzburg suzerainty . The supremacy of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen included the district court districts of Arnstadt and Gehren. The county Unterleichen was under the sovereignty of the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and was after 1631 a fiefdom of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

Offices of the Schwarzburg special houses suzerainty

Territorial changes

When the state was reorganized in 1850, the two administrative districts of Arnstadt and Gehren were formed in the sovereignty . The administrative district of Arnstadt included the city of Arnstadt and its surroundings, the exclaves Geschwenda and Rockhausen .

In 1910, the Arnstadt administrative district had an area of ​​172 km² and had 28,628 inhabitants. In 1912 the two administrative districts of Arnstadt and Gehren were dissolved and the supremacy was reorganized into the now independent city of Arnstadt and the district of Gehren . In 1918 the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen became the Free State of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , which in turn opened up in Thuringia on May 1, 1920 .

Places of sovereignty in Schwarzburg-Sondershausen in 1900

Arnstadt administrative district

The uninhabited community-free forest districts of Arnstadt and Waldsberg also belonged to the administrative district of Arnstadt.

Gehren administrative district

1) the other part belongs to the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen (Hildburghausen district)

The uninhabited, community-free forest districts of Langewiesen, Lehmannsbrück, Masserberg, Neustadt am Rennsteig, Oberbreitenbach, Obergehren, Unterbreitenbach and Untergehren also belonged to the administrative district of Gehren.

See also

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  1. ↑ Territorial distribution around 1700, draft by Dr. H. Herz (based on the municipality boundary map of Thuringia), Thür. Historical Commission, 1937
  2. ^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2009 .

Web links

Municipal directory 1900