Fræzlæt

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Fræzlæt (also: Fraezlaet , Fredslet , Fræslet or Freslet ) is the name of a historical Danish administrative area in the former Duchy of Schleswig .

Fræzlæt

history

The administrative area of ​​Fræzlæt has existed since around 1200: In maps showing the division into Syssel and Harden in 1231, the area is summarized as the Schlei-Eider district. These include the royal estates Fræzlæt, Schwansen , Stapelholm , Kamp and Jarnwith . Because of the property as a royal estate, the areas were not Syssel. The later division into Herred (German: initially herd , later Harde like the Hüttener Harde or Hohner Harde ) had a meaning as a lower administrative unit.

Parts of the area are mentioned in a document dated May 12, 1260: The Danish nobles Mechthild von Holstein and their two sons Erich I and Abel Abelsen pledged the property to the Holstein counts Johann I and Gerhard I. The Fræzlæt area belonged to the property , Stapelholm, Schwansen and Jarnwith and the Rendsburg fortress .

As a whole, it stretched from the exit of the Schlei and the Kiel Fjord in the east to today's city of Friedrichstadt in the west. The northern border was formed by the Schlei- Danewerk - Treene line, the southern border by the Levensau - Eider line. Fræzlæt can be seen as the first historical predecessor of the old district of Eckernförde .

structure

The entire administrative area of ​​Fræzlæt was originally divided into:

The special status of Eckernförde was based on a norm (3rd book, chapter 61, § 2) of Jutian law (Danish: Jyske Lov , Niederd .: Jütsche Low ): According to this, the place was legally not part of the state due to its origin on a coastal strip Denmark , but it was private property of the Danish king.

The overall administrative area of ​​Fræzlæt is almost identical in its extent to the Saxon Mark Schleswig (also: Danish Mark ) established between 931 and 935 and the former Eckernförde district in its first borders between 1867 and 1878.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Windmann: Schleswig as territory. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1954, maps I and II.
  2. Dipl. Dan. II, 1, No. 316.
  3. ^ Horst Windmann: Schleswig as territory. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1954, p. 172.