Teschener Kammer

It was instituted after the death of Elizabeth Lucretia in 1653, which ended the Cieszyn Piast's rule in the duchy.

As opposed to the local Piast dukes they lived away from the duchy and this necessitated the deployment of administrators presided over by a regent.

[1] Initially the Teschener Kammer encompassed 4 towns (Cieszyn, Skoczów, Strumień and Jablunkov) and 31 villages organised into two circles (Cieszyn-Jablunkov and Skoczów-Strumień).

In 1791 Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, began to purchase numerous villages within Cieszyn Silesia.

After World War I and the fall of Austria-Hungary the Kammer was liquidated: its properties were nationalised in Poland and Czechoslovakia.