Dominium Visurgis
The Latin expression Dominium Visurgis (D.V.) ( dt .: 'Rule of the Weser') describes the efforts of the city of Bremen in the 15th to 16th centuries to expand its sphere of influence down the Weser .
history
In the Middle Ages, the city included the area of today's old town, which was partially, and from the 13th century completely, protected by the Bremen city wall . Several areas close to the city continued to belong to Bremen, the scope of which expanded increasingly to the right and left of the Weser.
The intention of the Bremen Council was to build a Bremen state on both sides of the Lower Weser . Bremen wanted to strengthen its political and economic position in northern Germany and get direct access to the North Sea via the mouth of the Weser .
At the beginning of the 15th century, Bremen expanded and reached its greatest expansion and power in the Middle Ages. Around 1400, Butjadingen (1385 to 1424), the urban land west of the Weser estuary (1385 to 1424), the rule Bederkesa , Lehe , the Land Wührden , Blumenthal , Nieder- and Obervieland , Huchting , Blockland , Borgfeld and Hollerland were territories of Bremen. In addition, the city had two pawned properties with the Norder Osterstade and an area bounding the Land Wursten in the northeast. Bremen, however, was unable to permanently defend its areas on the lower left bank of the Weser against the stubborn Frisians , and these repeatedly pushed into conquered territories. Bremen withdrew from Butjadingen and Stadland in 1424 after the East Frisian chiefs ( tom Brok , Focko Ukena , Sibet Lubben) had occupied the area.
In 1484 the state of Wursten and Bremen fought together in a feud against the occupation of the state of Wursten by Duke Johann IV of Saxony-Lauenburg . In 1499, Count Johann von Oldenburg occupied the city and Butjadingen. In 1500 the state of Wursten placed itself under the "protection" of the Archbishop of Bremen due to further threats from Saxony-Lauenburg . 1504, the Bremer pledge fell country Would the county Oldenburg back. The territorial integration of the marshland at the mouth of the Weser into the territories of the Diocese of Bremen and the County of Oldenburg could not be prevented in the long term.
Bremen refrained from further attempts to expand the "Dominium Visurgis".
See also
literature
- Werner Kloos , Reinhold Thiel: Bremer Lexikon . Hauschild Verlag , 2003, ISBN 3-931785-47-5 .
- Herbert Black Forest : History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Volume I, Edition Temmen , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 .