Principality of Köpenick

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Coin of Prince Jaczo

The Principality of Köpenick was a rulership around Köpenick Castle in the 12th century.

area

The territory can only be guessed roughly. It probably extended from Köpenick along the Spree , Dahme and Nuthe into large parts of the Teltow . It is unclear whether it still included areas in Barnim or even the Lebuser Land .

The archdeaconate Köpenick-Mittenwalde , mentioned later, could have roughly corresponded to the area.

history

Since the 9th century at the latest, there has been a Slavic castle on the castle island of Köpenick as the center of a castle district of the Sprewanen .

For the time around 1150 Jaczo was mentioned as Prince (knes) of Copnic . His origin is unclear, he married in Silesia around 1145 and was called a Polish prince .

He must have been ruler in Köpenick by 1157 at the latest, because that year he was expelled from the castle in Brandenburg on the Havel by Albrecht the Bear .

There are coins from him that can not be dated more precisely. Archaeological finds indicate a development of the settlement during this time with handcraft and trade at this most important crossing over the Spree at this time.

In 1168 Jaczo gave the area to the Dukes of Pomerania . With that it ceased to be an independent principality.

Around 1180 the territory was conquered by the Wettin margraves of Lusatia and in 1244 came to the margraves of Brandenburg . During this time, Köpenick lost its prominent importance as a trading center to the neighboring towns of Berlin and Cölln .

literature

  • Michael Lindner: Jacza von Köpenick. A Slav prince of the 12th century between the Empire and Poland. Stories from a time when Berlin didn't exist yet. Viademica-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-939290-17-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Michael Lindner, p. 18
  2. ^ Gunnar Nath: Köpenick 1209 - Archeology and History. 2009, pp. 35-48.
  3. ^ In the treatise of Heinrich von Antwerp at the end of the 12th century and on some surviving coins
  4. ↑ cf. Johannes Schultze : The Mark Brandenburg . 5 volumes, Berlin 1961–1969, reprinted in one volume 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-13480-9 , pp. 144–147.