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Vogtland.] G E R M A N Yi 613
is ftiU extant a fmall eftate ofthat name. To this citadel belonged a confiderable
territory, and to this territory among other places the town of
'Blauet}. The former Counts oi Eberßcin were in poffeffion of this territory
of Dcbetiau, and inverted the noble Lords of ReuJJen, who were likewife
vogts of Plauen, with the town and icigniory of Plauen, and other portions
of it. In 1 3 28 Hermann Count oi Eberßein, with the confent of his brother
Otto, Canon of Hildeßieim and Minden^ made a ftipulation with Henry the
Eider, Vogt of Plauen, and his heirs, that both he and they fhould for the
future hold all the then fiefs of Ebcrßein in the territory of Dobenau, of
the Bohemian King John and his fucceffors. This Henry the Elder, Vogf
oi Plauen, as alfo his Ton Henry, had fo early as the year 1327 conferred
the feigniory oi Plauen in fief on the Bohemian King jcbn, at which time
to this feigniory were alfo reckoned the citadels of Lubo'w, "Johannefgrun,
Schoneck, Plonjhvicz, Stein, Tirbit, and Ganfdorf. Plauen, was for a long
the refidence of the burggraval line of the Vogts of the Empire;
time ftill
but Henry II. Burgcjrave of Meißen and Lord of Plauen, engaging in a
difficult procefs with feverai of his vafials and being thereupon put under
the ban, the execution thereof was conferred on the Eleftor Ernefl and
Duke Albert of Saxony, who in 1460 took Plauen and in 1466 at laft fi;ipulated
with th'e faid Burggrave, as he was again fet free from the ban,
that they ftiould retain Planen, and give him only a fum of money. But
the Eledlor John Frederick being put ut.der the ban of the Empire in the
year 1547, Henry Y. Burggrave oi Metjfen, and defcended from the Lords
oi Plauen, again took poflelTion of that place ; but after his death his fons
mortgaged it in 1550 together with other feigniories, to the Eledtor Aiigußus
of Saxony, who in 1569 fully purchafed both that and the Voigtsberg
of them.
2. Elßerbcrg,. a fmall town, feated on the Elßer, and belonging to the
Lord oi Bunaii. This p!ace was anciently a feparate feigniory, which belonged
to a family who were filled therefrom, and who likewife as well,
as the Counts oi Aniß:)aiigk were defcended from the Counts oi Lobdcburg.
3. Netzjchkau, a fmall town, belonging to the Count of Boje.
4. Myku, alfo a fmall town, belonging to the noh\t% oi Planitz. This^
place is of great antiquity, inafmuch as together with its appurtenance it
was fo fully a feigniory, and that io early as the year 121 2, that the Emperor
Frederick was enabled to invcil: therewith at the fame time with
other places Ottocar King of Bohemia. The firft: poffeßbrs ftiled themfelves
from it, and their race continued till the middle of the fixteenth century, ^
but before it became extincl, this feigniory fo early as about the year
1364 was already in the hands of the Lords of Reuß'en, and in the fifteenth
century in the poflefllon of the family oi Metzfch. From the laft it
came to the Lords of Bojen, and at leng^th to the nobles of the Planitz.
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