Lordship of Lindau

The castle Lindau

The lordship of Lindau (also Grafschaft Lindau or Lindow ) is a historical territory in Anhalt and bears the name of the place Lindau bei Zerbst . It was temporarily owned by the noble Counts of Lindow-Ruppin , a branch line of the Counts of Arnstein . Because of this, the territory was also referred to as the County of Lindau , although it was a lordship and not a county .

1370 pledged Count Albrecht VI. von Lindow-Ruppin passed the rule of Lindau to Prince Johann II of Anhalt-Köthen . In 1461 the rule was finally sold to the princes Adolf I and Albrecht IV of Anhalt-Köthen. The noble family Lindow-Ruppin retained the title of Count of Lindow-Ruppin and a right of repurchase during the sale. With the extinction of the Lindow-Ruppin family in 1524, the right of repurchase passed to the Electors of Brandenburg , who were feudal lords of the Lindau rule. In 1577, Elector Johann Georg von Brandenburg left the rule of Lindau to the House of Anhalt as a man fief and after fief .

literature

• Gerd Heinrich : The Counts of Arnstein (= Reinhold Olesch , Walter Schlesinger , Ludwig Erich Schmitt [Hrsg.]: Central German research . Volume 21). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Graz 1961, second part. Formation and training of the lords of the Counts of Arnstein, Counts of Barby and Counts of Lindow. VIII. The lordships of Lindau and Möckern, pp. 392–412.