County of Lüchow
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| The county of Lüchow (green area in the red circle) around 1250 |
The County of Lüchow came into being in the 12th century when the Counts of Warpke moved their seat to Lüchow and sat there at Lüchow Castle . The county is first mentioned in 1144 with Count Hermann von Lüchow. Its end can be dated to the year 1320, when it came to the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg .
description
The emergence of the County of Lüchow in the middle of the 12th century can be seen in connection with the eastern colonization that took place in the area from the mouth of the Elbe to the southern border on the Mark Brandenburg . Heinrich the Lion founded the five counties Holstein , Ratzeburg , Schwerin , Dannenberg and Lüchow to protect the new areas and borders of his country.
The father of the first Count Hermann von Lüchow was Olger (Ulrich I.), who is named as Count von Warpke in 1124. His grandchildren Ulrich III. and Hermann I (1144–1171) moved the count's seat to Lüchow and from then on referred to themselves as the Counts of Lüchow. With them came knights from the Altmark to the Wendland . A strong settlement began among them. The count's followers had their farms within Lüchow and partly in the outer bailey of Lüchow Castle. Among them were those of Plato , von Bülow , von Bodendorf and von dem Knesebeck .
In 1160, Count Hermann von Lüchow furnished the Diesdorf monastery in Altmark with real estate in the form of 7 villages. It was the monastery in which the burial place of the counts was. After the fall of Henry the Lion around 1176, the Lüchow Counts cultivated closer relationships with the Margraves of Brandenburg . The financial situation of the Counts of Lüchow deteriorated in the 13th century, which can be seen in the frequent sale of property. In 1274, after the death of Count Heinrich II, a dispute broke out between the Guelphs and the Ascanians over suzerainty in the county . The Ascanians secured it by paying 4,000 marks to the Guelphs. After the death of Count Kaland von Lüchow, who had remained childless, in 1318, the Askanians were eligible for the county. In 1320 the county came into the possession of the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg through sale.
Dominion
The core area of the County of Lüchow was largely identical to the current municipality of Lüchow . The small county bordered the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, the County of Dannenberg and the Margraviate of Brandenburg and was thus in the area of tension between the larger territories. The Lüchow counts had their possessions in Braunschweigisch-Lüneburgische areas and also in the Altmark, to which there were close economic ties.
The following places belonged to the County of Lüchow:
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literature
- Wolfgang Jürries , Berndt Wachter (Ed.): Lüchow, Count of in: Wendland-Lexikon . Volume 2: LZ , 2nd edition. Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Köhring & Co., Lüchow 2008, ISBN 978-3-926322-28-9 , p. 80
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gehrcke: The Counts of Lüchow . In: Chronicle of the City of Lüchow . E. Koehring. Lüchow 1949, pp. 10-21.