Plauen

Plauen was the lordship of the Vogts of Plauen, imperial ministers named after their castle on the White Elster. In 1337 Henry III the Tall headed the Plauen line, which had accepted Bohemian suzerainty in 1327.

During the Vogtland War of 1354–1357, the vogts lost most of their lands to Charles IV and the Wettin margraves; Henry IV lost Voigtsberg, Oelsnitz and Adorf to Meissen. The elder Plauen line died out in 1572, and its estates passed to the Reuss family, descended from another branch of the same house.