Barony of Schwarzenberg
The rule of Schwarzenberg was a arisen in the mid-12th century territory in the Saxon Erzgebirge. It was the Magnanimous in 1533 continued after their acquisition by Johann Friedrich as Elector of Saxony's administrative unit under the name of County Office Schwarzenberg, who underwent territorial changes significantly over time.
Geography
The rule joined the Vogtland region to the east of, extended to the south in the forests of Westerzgebirgskammes from Auersberg up to the Fichtelbergbahn and was bounded by the rivers of black water, Pöhlwasser or Mittweida and south through the watershed. The focus of the rule was the castle built in 1200 Schwarzenberg.
Adjacent administrative units
History
In the settlement of the Ore Mountains was built in Schwarzenberg in the middle of the 12th century on a rocky cliff at the black water a castle. With the associated rule in the course of time, among other things, the Vogtland bailiffs, the viscount of Leisnig and the Lords of Tettau encumbered. Since the Leipzig division in 1485, the Office was part of the Ernestine line of the Wettin family. After the area had been ravaged by the Hussites in the 15th century, it came at the beginning of the 16th century to an upswing. The mining of tin and iron flourished, Schwarzenberg was 1515 mining town. 1530 and 1532 under the jurisdiction belonging mining towns Gottesgab and plates were founded. After the Saxon Elector John Frederick I in 1533 Schwarzenberg dominion had bought for 126,000 guilders from the heirs of the brothers Albrecht Christoph and Georg von Tettau also Eibenstock was in 1534 raised to the electoral mountain town. Due to the thriving mining capital flowed from Nuremberg and Schneeberg to plates where, arose as well in Schwarzenberg, yew floor and Gottesgab, mountain areas.
Tettauische officials
As Tettauische officials have been handed down:
- Stephen Brant ( 1470 )
- Erhard Schopf ( 1489 )
- George Brosius (1527 )
- Georg Bäßler (1530)