Schalauer
The northernmost of the twelve Prussian tribes is called Schalauer ( Prussian Skalavo, Skalwa ) .
The sparsely populated area of Schalauen was located on the lower reaches of the Memel between Nadrauen in the south and Kuren in the north on both sides of the Memel. In the west, Schalauen reached as far as the Curonian Lagoon , ran south along the rivers Gilge and Ossa to Nadrauen and further east across the Memel before reaching the border with Sudauen .
The Schalauer owned three important castles: Ruß (Lithuanian Rusne ) in the Memel Delta, Jomsborg, Jumpne, Iumne at the foot of the Curonian Spit and Rangite ( Ragnit ) on the holy mountain Rambynas , which formed the center of the settlement area.
From 1406 Zemaites began to settle in Schalauen.
literature
- Gertrud Mortensen (née Heinrich): Contributions to the nationality and settlement conditions of Prussian-Lithuania. Berlin 1927. (Dissertation, Königsberg, 1921), digitized version , accessed on July 16, 2014
- R. Pawel: The German Memelland was the Prußengau Schalauen . Memeler Dampfboot, 1982, No. 11. Printed in: Günter Uschtrin: Where is Coadjuthen ?: the story of an East Prussian parish in the former Memelland. BWV Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3830519010
Individual evidence
- ^ Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - Volume 23, p. 537 online
- ↑ Albinas Kuncevicius, Zigmantas Kiaupa, Jurate Kiaupiene: The History of Lithuania: Before 1795 , 2000, p. 34, ISBN 978-9986810131
- ^ German studies, editions 129–132, Ost-Akademie., 1996, p. 237 online
- ↑ Das Sprachgenie: Georg Sauerwein - a biography, p. 263 online