Plot

Plötz - early German castle next to church

Plote (in the oldest documents - Ploth ) was the name for a terra or province of the Tollensians, a sub-tribe of the Slavic Lutizen in what is now Western Pomerania . The "provincia" or "terra" plot - later the castle district - was east of Demmin between the rivers Peene in the north and Tollense in the south. To the east bordered the Terra or province Mizerez (Meseritz), in the southwest the Terra Tholenz.

"Ploth" is mentioned for the first time in a (falsified) document from the year 949/965, with which King Otto founds the diocese of Havelberg , founded in 948 , and describes its extent in detail.

The name Plote goes back to Trautmann from the Slavic word * Ploty, which was used to describe a settlement protected by a fence. Trautmann lists seven other places with this word stem in the former Elbe and Baltic Sea Slavic area.

The last documented evidence of the Terra Plote comes from the year 1249. At this point in time, the Lutizenbund had already disintegrated and the area of the Terra Plote was predominantly inhabited by Germans. The document concerns a border setting by Duke Wartislaw III. von Pommern-Demmin between the Eldena monastery and the county of Gützkow. The Land Meseritz, Land Loitz and Land Plötz ("terra plotae") are listed as belonging to Gützkow. In the land of Meseritz are the places Kagenow, Toitin, Kartlow, Müssenthin (Müssentin near Jarmen), Tutow and Petrol. This part of the county of Gützkow is administered from the Plötzenburg (Plötz). Lt. PUB 499 - ... et omni jure in terra Cotscowae ...

The first written mention of the village "Ploz" (today the district of Plötz of the city of Jarmen ), in whose name the earlier Terra Plote lives on, also dates from 1249 .

The former main castle of the Slavic Terra Plote is believed to be on or in the vicinity of the Plötz district. A precise location of the Wendish settlement and castle has not yet been proven. Its successor is the Plötzenburg , which was known as "Bloczenburg" in 1338 . The early German Plötzenburg is a tower hill castle, which is well preserved between the current church and the village pond in Plötz. It is listed at location 6 in the land monument lists of the state of MV. It became the seat of the vassals of the Gützkow Counts of Winterfeld , who administered the Plötz castle district for the Gützkow County from there.

In 1325 are in the Bürgerbuch the city of Stralsund "Everardus et de Gherardus Ploten" is entered as a new citizen. They are probably the first recorded ancestors of the Stralsund family of Bluth. The majority of the immigrants to Stralsund around 1300 came from Western Pomerania. Therefore, the origin of the named new citizens from the old Terra Plote can be assumed.

literature

Wolfgang Brüske: Investigations into the history of the Lutizenbund. German-Wendish relations of the 10th - 12th centuries . (= Central German research. 3). 2nd edition, Böhlau, Cologne a. Vienna 1983
Joachim Herrmann (Ed.): The Slavs in Germany . Berlin 1985
Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen, Part II - Volume I, The districts of Demmin, Anklam, Usedom-Wollin and Ückermünde. Anklam 1868
Hugo Gotthard Bluth: Contributions to the history of the Bluth family from Stralsund in Pomerania. Prague 1942

supporting documents

↑ Wolfgang Brüske: Investigations on the history of the Lutizenbund. German-Wendish relations of the 10th - 12th centuries . 2nd edition, Böhlau, Cologne a. Vienna 1983, p. 144 and map attachment
↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch, Volume I, 786–1253, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 10. Further documents: No. 41 (from 1150), No. 81 (from 1179), No. 99 (from 1186)
↑ Reinhold Trautmann : The Elbe and East Sea Slavic place names, part II. In: Treatises of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Philosophical-historical class. Born 1947 No. 7. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1949
^ Pommersches Urkundenbuch, Volume I, 786–1253, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 499
↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch, Volume I, 786–1253, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 519a
^ Pommersches Urkundenbuch, Volume X, 1336-1340, Cologne and Vienna 1984, No. 5655 (p. 297)
^ Robert Ebeling: The oldest Stralsund citizen book (1319 - 1348) , Stettin 1926, p. 34, no. 648. Correspondence with the original confirmed by Stralsund City Archives 2015
↑ Bernhard Koerner (Ed.): German Gender Book, Volume 115 , Görlitz 1942, p. 42
↑ Hans Bahlow: The Stralsund citizen names around 1300. In: Baltic Studies, NF Vol. XXXVI, Stettin 1934, pp. 1–59, here p. 33

[1] Wolfgang Brüske: Investigations on the history of the Lutizenbund. German-Wendish relations of the 10th - 12th centuries . 2nd edition, Böhlau, Cologne a. Vienna 1983, p. 144 and map attachment

[2] Pommersches Urkundenbuch, Volume I, 786–1253, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 10. Further documents: No. 41 (from 1150), No. 81 (from 1179), No. 99 (from 1186)

[3] Reinhold Trautmann : The Elbe and East Sea Slavic place names, part II. In: Treatises of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Philosophical-historical class. Born 1947 No. 7. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1949

[4] Pommersches Urkundenbuch, Volume I, 786–1253, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 499

[5] Pommersches Urkundenbuch, Volume I, 786–1253, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 519a

[6] Pommersches Urkundenbuch, Volume X, 1336-1340, Cologne and Vienna 1984, No. 5655 (p. 297)

[7] Robert Ebeling: The oldest Stralsund citizen book (1319 - 1348) , Stettin 1926, p. 34, no. 648. Correspondence with the original confirmed by Stralsund City Archives 2015

[8] Bernhard Koerner (Ed.): German Gender Book, Volume 115 , Görlitz 1942, p. 42

[9] Hans Bahlow: The Stralsund citizen names around 1300. In: Baltic Studies, NF Vol. XXXVI, Stettin 1934, pp. 1–59, here p. 33