Detlef von Gadebusch

Detlef von Gadebusch (* before 1219, † after 1244; also Dethlev or Thethlev ) Lord von Lositz ( Loitz ) was a knight in the Mecklenburg service.

Life

The earliest mentions of Detlef von Gadebusch as a follower of Heinrich Borwin I of Mecklenburg come from the year 1219. In almost all documented mentions he came first before the other followers and was the only knight who was referred to as "Lord" (dominus) . The reason for this outstanding position is generally assumed to be a kinship with the Mecklenburg Princely House and the branch lines of the Rügen Princely Family. However, there is a lack of evidence on this. The same applies to the participation in the Estonia campaign of 1218/19 of the Danish King Waldemar II. Together with his liege lord. After his death in 1227, he was guardian of the four grandchildren Heinrich Borwin I, along with other nobles in the country, and took on the office of burgrave (Castellan) of Gadebusch. Around 1230 he owned the goods Vitense , Rosenow , Alt Pokrent , Wokenstedt and Kossebade .

Detlef von Gadebusch also took part in the alliance between Bishop Brunward von Schwerin and the Mecklenburg princes to protect against the attacks of Bishop von Cammin and the Dukes of Pomerania in 1235. He occupied the country of Loitz, located between Peene , Trebel and Ryck . Similar to the neighboring Counts of Gützkow , he tried to establish his own sovereignty in the border area between Pomerania, Rügen and Mecklenburg. 1242 he gave the main town Loitz the Lubeck city rights and gave the city several towns and Zarnekla Drosedow, of which the former remained in the possession of the city until the 1,652th The eagle wings in the Loitz city coat of arms go back to Detlef's coat of arms. In 1244 he witnessed a donation to the Broda monastery .

progeny

The names of the following sons of Detlef von Gadebusch have been handed down:

1. Werner von Loitz (mentioned in a document from 1248–1271)
2. Heinrich von Loitz († after 1269)

These got into disputes with the Eldena monastery over the villages of Griebenow , Subzow and Pansow, which the Pomeranian Duke ended in favor of the monastery. With the death of the sons, the country of Loitz first went to Duke Barnim I of Pomerania and at the end of the 13th century to the Principality of Rügen , with which it came to the partial duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast from 1325 .

literature

• Rudolf Benl: The shaping of land rights in Pomerania from the 12th to the 14th century Central German Research, Volume 93. Cologne, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-412-01586-5 .
• Wilhelm Biereye: About the origin of the gentlemen from Loitz , In: Monthly sheets of the society for Pomeranian history and antiquity. 50th vol. (1936), pp. 61-68.
• Ernst Deecke : News on the history of the Diocese of Schwerin , in: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Vol. 21 (1856), p. 187 (digitized version)
• Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : The knight Thetlev von Gadebusch and his family . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 14, article 4.
• George Adalbert von Mülverstedt: A Meklenburisch-Rügisches gentlemen in the Harz region , in: Journal of the Harz Association for History and Archeology, 34th year (1901), pp. 1–26.
• Theodor Pyl :  Gadebusch, Dethlev von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 298.
• Henning Rischer: On the history of the city of Loitz . In: Contributions to the history of Western Pomerania: the Demmin Colloquia 1985–1994 . Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 1997, ISBN 3-931185-11-7 .
• Dirk Schleinert : The Land of Loitz from the 13th to the middle of the 20th century - viewed from an administrative perspective. In: Grenzregion between Pomerania and Mecklenburg, Vol. 3 (2002), pp. 25–38.
• Joachim Wächter : The Principality of Rügen - An overview . In: Contributions to the history of Western Pomerania: the Demmin Colloquia 1985–1994 . Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 1997, ISBN 3-931185-11-7 .