County of Fürstenberg (Havel)

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Fürstenberg (Havel), Tinging to Bagmihl
Coat of arms of the Counts of Fürstenberg (Havel), Tinging to Mülverstedt

The county of Fürstenberg existed from 1348 to 1363 in Mecklenburg in the area of ​​the cities of Fürstenberg / Havel and Strelitz on the border with the Mark Brandenburg .

There is no connection to the Swabian Counts of Fürstenberg or the Westphalian Counts of Fürstenberg .

history

The city of Fürstenberg came into the hands of the Dukes of Mecklenburg with the Fürstenberger Werder in 1348 and became its capital. Otto and Ulrich von Dewitz enfeoffed them with the offices of Fürstenberg / Havel and Strelitz. When Emperor Charles IV raised the rule of Mecklenburg to an imperial fiefdom in the same year , Otto and Ulrich were raised to the rank of count by the emperor with the title of Counts von Fürstenberg ("greve tho Vorstenberghe") . The brothers joined Dewitz Strelitz, with which it already in 1328 as an educator and consultant of Henry II. Had been invested, the newly formed county and gave the place on 4 December 1349, the city charter . Since the Lords of Dewitz supported the dukes of Pomerania in the wars of succession in the Rügische Succession in the fight against Mecklenburg, their Mecklenburg fiefdoms were withdrawn. The dignity of the count was only given up in 1363 after the settlement in Pomerania.

Fürstenberg became a country town in Mecklenburg and, as such, part of the towns in the Stargard district , which were represented in the Mecklenburg state parliaments of the estates united in 1523 until 1918 .

coat of arms

The coat of arms is roughened three times in blue and gold or slanted (recessed St. Andrew's cross?). On the helmet with blue-gold helmet covers, two buffalo horns divided by red over gold, each with four (or seven) peacock feathers on the outside.

The blazon in the Pomeranian coat of arms: four gold diamonds in red. On the helmet with red and gold covers, two horns divided over a corner by red and gold and decorated with four peacock feathers on the outside.

The authors are silent about the source of the different tingings .

  • Equestrian seal of Otto von Dewitz as Count von Fürstenberg, 1349

  • Seal of Count Otto von Fürstenberg, 1353

  • Seal of Count Jacob von Fürstenberg, 1364

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Fürstenberg (Havel) in the Pomeranian coat of arms book , 1843

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Fürstenberg (Havel) in Siemacher's Wappenbuch , 1902

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch , VI. Volume, 10th department, Extinct Mecklenburg nobility , Nuremberg 1902, p. 35, plate 19.
  2. ↑ Annalize Wagner , E. Lubs: Geschichtliches von Alt-Strelitz In: Neustrelitzer Stadtführer , ed. Rat der Stadt Neustrelitz, cover and drawings Gerd Gombert , Neustrelitz, 1965, p. 6.
  3. ^ Gerlinde Kienitz: Strelitz. The first residential city. In: Neustrelitz 1733–1983. Ed .: Museum der Stadt Neustrelitz, Neustrelitz 1983, p. 10. → with reference to: Certificate on the award of town charter. Neustrelitz City Archives, V US 1.
  4. ↑ "hus unde stadt" Strelitz is documented as early as 1348 as part of the county of Fürstenberg .
  5. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 2, page 469.