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burg. The laft pofTcflbrs of the town, and likewife of the felgniory which
was named from it, were the family of Tettau, who difpofed of the latter in
1533 ^" property and hereditarily to the Eledlor yohn Frederick for the
fum of 126,000 guldens. To it belonged, exclufive of the little town of
Schwarzenberg, alfo Eybenlhck and Ane, together with the mine-towns
of Gottefgab and Platten, which belong at prel'ent to Bohemia, and fourteen
villages. In this town and its neighbourhood are feveral iron-forges
and the mines here yield both tin and lead. The adjoining fovereign foffil-work
yields alfo all manner of crude and prepared colour-earths.
2. Schneeberg, a mine-town under immediate valTalage, and belonging
to the larger feledion of towns. In it is a mine-ofiice; and it ftands
on a mountain not far from the Mulde^ being likewife wholly furrounded
by mountains. It contains one town and parochial-church, as alfo a
hofpital and orphan-houfe, with a church and a good Latin fchool. In it
are made thread, filk, gold and filver-lace. The filver-mine here, which
Was difcovered in 147 1, gave occafion to the building of this towr,
which in 1479 obtained its right conftitution, and in 1481 llill greater immunities.
In 1543 one hundred and thirty-eight houfes were burnt
down here.
Schneeberg and its circumjacent territory is famous for its fiver-mines,
which on their firfl difcovery yielded unufual profit. In 1477 Duke Albert
oi Saxony dined in the St. Georgenzeche on a hewn maflive block of filver by
way of table, out of which were afterwards made four hundred centners of
that metal. At prefent its profits in filver are not great, but much more
confiderable is
the Sovereign's double fmalt-work in
Oberfchlemma, which was form.erly a private work, and in the year
1651 was bequeathed by the lart poffeflbr, John Burchard, to the then electoral
Prince °John George II. after which, namely in 1682, the fmalt-work
at Jugri was alfo removed hither. In this part likewife is Schindlers colour-work
on the Midde ; and one German mile from Schneeberg the work
oi Pfannenßiel, which lies alfo not far from Schneeberg; together with the
Zchopenthal near ^Jchcpau. In thefe works the finefl blue colour or linalt
is prepared in the largefh quantities, and exported far and near, from
cobalt, which mufl be delivered there at a fixed price out of all parts of
the country. Thefe four fmalt-works ftand firft in a general fellowfliip,
or partnership, fo that one obtains as much cobalt from the mines as the
other, and each alfo makes the fame quantity of colours, only that the
fovereign work obtains and again gives out a double delivery. Next the
partners of each work are united under a particular fellowfhip, and maintain
at each work their feparate faftor of accounts for the dividing of the
profits, in proportion to their refpedtive fhares.
3. Neußadt near Schneeberg, or Neußadfel, a fmall mine-town under mediate
vafTalage, and having both feat and voice at the Provincial-Diets.
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