Isfried's partition agreement
The Isfried Partition Treaty is a document from 1194 in which Isfried , Bishop of Ratzeburg, and the Ratzeburg Cathedral Chapter agree on the division of the Ratzeburg monastery estates. The contract gives the first precise information about the state of the high medieval state development in the diocese of Ratzeburg, whose area essentially comprised the district of the Duchy of Lauenburg and western Mecklenburg . The regional popularity of the document can be traced back to the first documentary mention of the villages listed in it. The certificate is now in the Schwerin State Main Archives (LHAS 1.5-2 / 1 Diocese of Ratzeburg, Strelitzer holdings, No. 10). The state of preservation is poor due to mold infestation. A restoration is not in sight. The relevant publication took place in MUB I, 154 ( Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch ).
History of origin
After the rebuilding of the diocese of Ratzeburg, which had been destroyed by the Slavs in the 11th century, Heinrich the Lion decided in 1154 that the cathedral chapter in the states of Ratzeburg, Wittenburg, Gadebusch and Boitin should be entitled to part of the episcopal income. The document created about it from 1167 is a forgery, but the determination itself is considered genuine, only the original document seems lost. In any case, this order was not enforced under Isfried's predecessor Evermod and during the vacancy caused by an investiture dispute . Instead, the bishop collected the tithe and gave the cathedral chapter what was necessary for a living. Heinrich the Lion had now installed Isfried as bishop in 1180, much to the displeasure of the provost Otto, who had preceded the convent of the chapter and had raised his hopes for the office. The resulting disputes are reflected in the introduction to the partition agreement, when Isfried declares that “our brothers and canons of the Ratzeburg church pressed us more often.” As a result, the bishop and the cathedral chapter agreed to end the dispute and enforce it the determination of sworn arbitrators who should decide in which villages of the diocese the tithe should fall to the chapter in the future. These arbitrators are named in the certificate: Bernardus de Mulsan , Otto Albus , Willehelmus de Zagerahn, Woldemarus, Wernerus de Marsowe, Fredericus de Hachenowe, Heinricus de Butzowe, Vogt Fredericus and Eilbertus von Dargun. The arbitral award itself, on the other hand, has not survived, but the Isfried partition agreement expressly refers to the decision of the arbitrators.
content
The document shows that the goods and rights of the chapter have been individually determined by the arbitrators and that the bishop and the chapter recognize this determination as contractually binding. The goods allocated to the chapter, namely the hooves (the land), the interest (the rent payments) and the tithe it should be allowed to keep forever, also a future increase in the villages. Whoever disturbs the chapter in his possession is cursed and shall fall prey to eternal damnation. Conversely, the chapter renounces any claim against the bishop, should his income increase in the future. In detail, the chapter is to receive the goods, especially the tithe, of the following villages:
| State of Ratzeburg | ||
Parish of St. Georg  |
||
| 1 | Rodemozle | Romnitz |
| 2 | Cithene | Ziethen |
| 3 | Monte | Neuvorwerk |
| 4th | Giselbreghtestorpe | Giesensdorf |
| 5 | Belendorp | Behlendorf |
| 6th | Minus shortcoming | Klein Anker (received) |
| 7th | Minus Belendorp | Klein Behlendorf (received) |
| 8th | Unam domum | A house |
| 9 | Crumesce | Curved mass |
| 10 | Novam Villam | Niendorf |
| 11 | Climpowe | Plumbing |
| 12 | Pukentorpe | Pukendorf (received) |
| 13 | Cronesvorde | Kronsforde |
| Parish of Schlagsdorf | ||
| 14th | Mechowe | Mechow |
| 15th | Slaubrize | Schlagbrugge |
| Parish of Mustin | ||
| 16 | Dechowe | Dechow |
| 17th | Thurowe | Great Thurow |
| Seedorf parish | ||
| 18th | Nigentorp | Niendorf |
| 19th | Brisan | Bresahn |
| 20th | Scachere | Big reveler |
| Sterley parish | ||
| 21st | Kerseme | Sweeping |
| 22nd | Clotesvelde | Klotesfelde (received) |
| Gudow parish | ||
| 23 | Zageran | Segrahn (received) |
| 24 | Read | Langenlehsten |
| 25th | Bandowe | Bannau (received) |
| 26th | Grambeke | Grambek |
| 27 | Scarnekowe | Sarnekow |
| 28 | Fine | goddess |
| Parish of Breitenfelde | ||
| 29 | Wolterstorp | Woltersdorf |
| 30th | Nigentorp | Niendorf |
| 31 | Belowe | Blue |
| 32 | Antiquum Mulne | Alt Mölln |
| 33 | Pinnowe | Pinnau (received) |
| Parish of Nusse | ||
| 34 | Walegotesvelde | Walksfelde |
| State of Wittenburg | ||
| Parish of Zarrentin | ||
| 35 | Culsin | Kölzin |
| 36 | Vilun | Valluhn |
| 37 | Scalisce | Shit |
| Parish Neuenkirchen | ||
| 38 | Milentheche | Neuhof |
| 39 | Bosowe | Boissow |
| Döbbersen parish | ||
| 40 | Rochut | Raguth |
| 41 | Bentin | Bentin |
| Parish of Hagenow | ||
| 42 | Merchrade | Mercury (received) |
| 43 | Todin | Toddin |
| 44 | Puthechowe | Patow |
| Vellahn parish | ||
| 45 | Vilen | Vellahn |
| 46 | Bansin | Banzin |
| 47 | Domerace | Dammereez |
| 48 | Bralistorp | Brahlstorf |
| 49 | Panic | Penz (received) |
| 50 | Bolbruche | Bollbrugge (received) |
| Parish of Körchow | ||
| 51 | To be sure | Zühr |
| 52 | Predole | Perdöhl |
| Parish of Camin | ||
| 53 | Camin | Camin |
| Parish Parum | ||
| 54 | Pogresse | Pogreß |
| Land of Gadebusch | ||
| 55 | Zvemin | Zwemin (received) |
| 56 | Radegast | Radegast |
| 57 | Ganzowe | Ganzow |
| 58 | Malin | Möllin |
| 59 | Rotgentorp | Roggendorf |
| State of Schwerin | ||
| Eichsen parish | ||
| 60 | Sconevelde | Schönfeld |
| 61 | Wendelerstorp | Wendelstorf |
| 62 | Godin | Goddin |
| Country Boitin | ||
| 63 | Lenzekowe | Lenschow (received) |
| 64 | Polengowe | Paling |
| 65 | Warsowe | Fortune-telling |
| 66 | Luderstorp | Ludersdorf |
| 67 | Lewen | Lukewarm |
| 68 | Thescowe | Teschow |
| 69 | Locwisc | Bait |
| 70 | Rubenestorp | Rupensdorf |
| 71 | Malsowe | Malzow |
| 72 | Petersberg | Petersberg |
| 73 | Nigentorp | Niendorf |
| 74 | Bistenowe | Ollndorf |
reception
The Isfried partition agreement from 1194 is the first reliable list of the churches that have arisen in the Ratzeburg diocese. Since the state expansion in this area went hand in hand with the development of the church organization, the status of the church can be deduced from the document: The church organization in the state of Ratzeburg is almost complete after a comparison with the Ratzeburg tithe register, the focus of state expansion and the decade have already decreased Relocated east to the countries of Wittenburg and Gadebusch. The deed does not provide any information about the number of villages actually present in the diocese, since it only names those settlements according to their purpose which, firstly, were already tenth and secondly are divided between Isfried and the cathedral chapter. In 1194, villages still subject to Wendish law are not tithed and are completely absent, and what was not subject to division after the arbitration is not mentioned in the document. It is by no means permissible to assume that the villages mentioned in the Ratzeburg tithe register only came into being after the Isfried partition agreement was drawn up, or that those only listed there were still exclusively settled in 1194 and vice versa. On the other hand, it is permissible to look back comparatively from the view of the Ratzeburg tithe register insofar as it applies to the complete knowledge of the state expansion in 1230: What is missing in the Ratzeburg tithe register - the state of Boitin - has not been received in the meantime. Only both documents together give a reasonably complete impression of the high medieval state expansion in the diocese of Ratzeburg around the year 1230.
Individual evidence
- ^ Name of the untitled document after Ludwig Hellwig: The tithe register of the diocese of Ratzeburg. In: Verein für Mecklenburgische Geschichte und Altertumskunde: Yearbooks of the Verein für Mecklenburgische Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 69 (1904), p. 312 and further web link ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link became automatic used and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , same: New research on the tithe register of the diocese of Ratzeburg. In: Archives of the Association for the History of the Duchy of Lauenburg. Mölln 1909, page 3 and others; compare also Karl Schmaltz: The foundation and development of the ecclesiastical organization of Mecklenburg in the Middle Ages. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Volume 72 (1907), p. 126: Partition contract
- ↑ MUB I, 154 web link
- ↑ MUB I, 88 web link
- ↑ Karl Jordan: The founding of the diocese of Henry the Lion. Investigations into the history of East German colonization. Leipzig 1939, page 30
- ^ Wolfgang Prange: Settlement history of the state of Lauenburg in the Middle Ages. Neumünster 1960, pages 65 f.
- ^ Friedrich Bertheau: The historical development of the rural conditions in the Principality of Ratzeburg. in: Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 79 (1914), page 76 digitized version ( memento from September 7, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bertheau, ibid, p. 76 with reference to Winter, History of the Premonstratensians in Northeastern Germany. Page 175
- ↑ Neuendorff ( The Stiftsländer of the former Diocese of Ratzeburg - topographically and historically represented. Stillersche Hofbuchhandlung, Schwerin 1832. ( digitalisat ) page 43) translated instant shouldicitarent pleading , but a humble pleading convent, composed of local nobility and the holder of a documented claim, appears not very convincing
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