Since the 11th century, the ancestral seat of the comital family had been at Schwarzburg Castle, though after 1340, for most of its existence as a polity had the capital at the larger town of Rudolstadt.
Od 11. stoljeća, rodovsko sjedište grofovske obitelj bila je u dvorcu Schwarzburg , iako nakon 1340., za većinu svog postojanja kao državaglavni grad je bio Rudolstadt.