Country Boitin

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The country Boitin is a medieval province of the diocese of Ratzeburg . It is mentioned for the first time in 1158 in the endowment document of Heinrich the Lion as Butin . The name goes back to the Polabian tribe of the Bytines. As a result of a phonetic change that can still be demonstrated in the Drawenopolabic language , y became oi and Bytin became Boitin. The Germanized name Butin was unable to assert itself against the Polabian Boitin . The Polish name of the country has also disappeared and can only be found in isolated cases today, for example in the place name Boitin-Resdorf .

The boundaries of the Land of Boitin are described in the endowment document as follows:

... from the Herzogsgraben to a pile of stones near Bünstorf and from there through the middle of the Menzendorfer See and from there in a straight line to a large stone, from this into the common forest to a place popularly known as Mannhagen , near Carlow and in the Riepser swamp called, in the direction of Schlagsdorf forest and from there along the Lenschower Bach to its confluence with the Wakenitz .

The state of Boitin thus roughly encompassed the area of ​​today's municipalities of Selmsdorf , Schönberg (Mecklenburg) , Siemz-Niendorf and Lüdersdorf in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg .

Under Bishop Markward von Jesowe , the efforts of the Ratzeburg bishops to round off the state of Boitin began at the beginning of the 14th century.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MUB I, No. 65 ( online in the Google book search)
  2. ^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN  0259-7772 , pp. 3-168, here pp. 7, 25 and 27 ( online ).
  3. ^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN  0259-7772 , pp. 3–168, here p. 4, equates Bytiner and Bethenzer.
  4. ^ Translation for Rivulo Ducis . Compare this to Hertogenbeke at: GMC Masch : History of the Diocese of Ratzeburg. Asschenfeldt, Lübeck 1835, ( online in the Google book search).
  5. ^ Common to the countries of Boitin and Gadebusch