Aristocratic gang

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The Sadelbande is a historical landscape, which in the Middle Ages extended roughly over today's area of ​​the southern district of the Duchy of Lauenburg . It bordered in the northeast on the Hornbeker Mühlenbach , in the east on the Delvenau , in the south on the Elbe and in the west on the Bille . The name is probably of Slavic origin and, from the point of view of the Abodrites who settled east of the Delvenau, referred to the area beyond the Delvenau ( see also Delbende ). According to the Bremen Cathedral Scholaster Adam von Bremen, the Limes Saxoniae ran along the eastern and northern borders .

In terms of settlement history , a distinction is made between a Slavic part in the northeast and a Saxon part in the west and on the southern Geestrand . Between the two settlement areas there was a wasteland zone that was forested in the west. The Sachsenwald forms the remnants of this forest area.

At the beginning of the 11th century, the Slavic settlement expanded into the wasteland zone ( Wangelau , Lütau , Basedow , Lanze) and overcame it to the south ( Kollow , Gülzow , Krukow , Krüzen ).

When Heinrich von Bathide was enfeoffed with Polabia , Heinrich the Lion kept the aristocratic gang with the economically and militarily important Elbe crossing at Artlenburg and the Ertheneburg as a bridgehead on the right bank of the Elbe for himself. It was not until 1204 that Waldemar II laid the gang to the county of Ratzeburg .

Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 15 ″  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 45 ″  E

literature

  • Wolfgang Prange : Settlement history of the state of Lauenburg in the Middle Ages. (= Sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein, vol. 41 ) Wachholtz, Neumünster 1960, ISSN = 0173-0940.
  • Werner Budesheim: The development of the medieval cultural landscape of today's Duchy of Lauenburg with special consideration of the Slavic settlement (= communications of the Geographical Society Hamburg vol. 74 ), Wiesbaden 1984.
  • Günther Bock: Upheavals in Polabia during the 11th century. In: Felix Biermann u. a. (Ed.): Transformations and upheavals of the 12th / 13th centuries Century. (= Contributions of the section on early Slavic history at the 19th annual conference of the Central and East German Association for Antiquity Research in Görlitz, March 1-3, 2010) Langenweißbach 2012, pp. 67–82.