VOGTLAND or VOIGTLAND, a district of Germany, forming the south-west corner of the Land of Saxony, and also embracing parts of Thuringia. It is bounded on the north by the former principalities of Reuss, on the south-east by Czecho slovakia, and on the, south-west and west by Bavaria. Its character is generally mountainous, and geologically it belongs to the Erzge birge range. It is extremely rich in mineral ores—silver, copper,
lead and bismuth. The name denoted the country governed for the emperor by a Vogt (bailiff or steward), and was, in the middle ages, known as terra advocatorum.