Glauchau

Glauchau was a lordship of the Schönburg family on the Zwickauer Mulde. In 1337 its lord was Frederick VII; the family held Glauchau as a Bohemian crown sub-fief to resist the Saxon electors.

The Schönburgs added Waldenburg in 1378 and Hartenstein county in 1406. Their lands accepted the Reformation from 1542, but a 1740 agreement surrendered most of their autonomous rights to Electoral Saxony. The upper line became princes in 1790; mediatization ended their standing as ruling princes in 1803.