Strele (noble family)

Coat of arms of the city of Friedland

Coat of arms of the city of Beeskow

Coat of arms of the city of Lieberose

Coat of arms of the Oder-Spree district

Coat of arms of the city of Strehla

Coat of arms of the city of Storkow (Mark)

The Knights of Strele were a family of the Reichsministerialien from the Burgraviate Strehla on the Elbe , who had served the Wettins since the 11th century and also owned several castles and villages between 1202 and 1879. It was one of the oldest Lusatian rulers who exercised influential offices and had great influence in Wettin.

The von Strele are assigned to the descendants of Widukinds . The von Strele family died out in 1384.

Different historical spellings of names were Strehle and Strehla . Strehla is still called Topp-Strehle because of its pulpit , which the sculptor Melchior Tatzen created in 1565 from clay .

history

Around 1202, Margrave Konrad von Landsberg from the House of Wettin appointed the important noble von Strele family as his agents. They were supposed to protect the northern border of Lusatia against the Ascanians and the Wends , and later the property against peasant unrest. By 1245 lost Teltow - Fläming - war went to Wettiners all areas north of the River Spree with Koepenick , the important castle Lebus and the old Slavic main town of Mittenwalde lost.

When the von Strele came to Storkow (Mark) from the Elbe , they had been known in Central Germany for around 200 years as capable and clever people . Under the influence of the Meissen margraves , they began to build up the country in the northernmost Wettin area of ​​influence. As lords of Storkow and Beeskow, advisers and witnesses to the sovereigns, high clerical dignitaries, archdeacons of Lusatia, canons in Lebus, Meißen, Merseburg and Zeitz , they had a significant influence in the period around 1200-1382 and a lasting part in the development of the Region.

The presumably wooden castle Storkow , which was probably built by the Wettins in 1136 and first documented around 1209, was taken over by the Lords of Strele at the beginning of the 13th century. They built it out as a stone castle, which, as one of the oldest and most important castle complexes in East Brandenburg, was the center of the city and the surrounding area for centuries. The Wettin rule of Storkow was the largest and most important rule in Lusatia. At the end of the rule of the Streles, the Lords of Bieberstein took over their property.

The Streles built mid-13th century west of the trade route Leipzig - Luckau - Lebus on the Spree crossing in Beeskow a dungeon as a second center of power and started in the then Slavic settlement area with the planned city's founding. In Niederlausitz , besides Guben , Luckau and Spremberg , Beeskow is also mentioned in 1314 as a mint belonging to the Lords of Strele.

The town of Lieberose, founded by the Wettins and first mentioned in 1272, and the moated castle were probably owned by the von Strele people around 1301.

At the beginning of the 14th century, they founded Friedland as castrum et oppidum , i.e. castle and settlement.

In 2005 the association of the Strele castles was brought into being. As part of the reconstruction of their castles, the municipalities of Beeskow, Storkow and Friedland started a tourism offensive , including the series “ Culture on the Streleburgen ” and thus consciously recall the common history of rule.

coat of arms

The original lordly coat of arms of the von Strele family shows three scythe blades on top of each other, the blades aligned, their shafts on one side. The "Streler scythe blades" can still be seen on the Friedland coat of arms on a red background. In the Beeskow city coat of arms they are preserved in the left shield . One of these is still shown in the middle of the Lieberose coat of arms. The scythe blades are also included in a coat of arms of today's Oderspree district (see images).

While these new localities, founded by the Streles themselves, have their coat of arms at least in part, the coats of arms of the cities of Strehla (place of origin) and Storkow (seat of power), which were also associated with the Streles and were more important at the time, show even earlier symbols:

The city of Strehla has its roots in a Slavic settlement. The arrow contained in the coat of arms (= Old Sorbian strěla ) suggests a talking coat of arms. Storkow, too, later occupied by the Streles as a seat of power, was a pre-existing Slavic settlement and had a wooden castle before the Streles. The city ​​name goes back to the Slavic Sturkuowe , which means a name for a path through the swamp. The name is unscientific, however, often associated with the stork - the Old Slavic expression strucku  - (which is often found in the area with many lakes). The city coat of arms has shown this animal for as long as there have been figurative records of it.

Representatives of those from Strele

Incomplete listing of those from Strele according to various sources:

• around 1250: Beeskow's city is planned to be founded. The first lord of the city was Konrad von Strele.
• 1272: The brothers Bernhard and Reinhard Ritter von Strele take over the town and castle of Beeskow as property on November 30th and were also patrons of the Beeskow parish church .
• In 1283 the knight Reinhard von Strele was enfeoffed by the Archbishop of Magdeburg with the village of Hermersdorf (then Hermansdorp)
• 1307: Timo von Strehla (Strehle) is the presumed owner of the Friedland estate .
• 1349: Hanns von Strele unites Beeskow and Storkow, after his death Storkow goes to Johann and Beeskow to Botho von Strele in the same year.
• 1368: Reinhard von Strele is Lord of Storkow, Botho von Torgau is Lord of Beeskow.
• 1382: Reinhard von Strele, Captain of the Mark, decides on a fine that the city of Eberswalde has to pay to the city of Köpenick .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} team of authors: Historical guides - districts of Potsdam, Frankfurt (Oder) . Urania, Leipzig Jena Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-332-00089-6 , pages 287-293
2. ^ Culture on the STRELE castles 2007. In: Oder-Neisse-Journal. January 8, 2007, accessed May 21, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Widukind's descendants. Archived from the original on August 16, 2009 ; accessed on May 21, 2014 . 
4. ↑ The history of the city of Storkow (Mark). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 12, 2014 ; accessed on May 10, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Timeline 1301–1518. In: Website of the city of Friedland / NL. Retrieved May 21, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Robert Schmidt: Topp-Strehle - A hike through Strehla. In: Hiking World Central Saxony. Retrieved May 21, 2014 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} The history of the city of Storkow (Mark). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 12, 2014 ; accessed on May 21, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Iris Stoff: Storkow has his heart back . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , 21./22. February 2009, Journal page 8
9. ^ Numismatics: The coins of Brandenburg from the early Margrave period to the rule of the Letzeburgers. In: Numismatik.Realedition.de. Retrieved May 21, 2014 . 
10. ↑ Jörg Kühl: As you like it: Streleburgen present the 2008 cultural program. In: Märkische Oderzeitung . January 29, 2008, accessed May 21, 2014 . 
11. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Gerhard Kehrer , Heinz Machatscheck : Lexicon cities and coats of arms of the GDR . VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie Leipzig, 1979, 1st edition
12. ^ Heinrich Gottfried Gengler: Regesta and documents on the legal and constitutional history of German cities in the Middle Ages . Erlangen 1863, pp. 169-179
13. ↑ January 19 (year 1382) in daily facts of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (at the DHM ).
14. ^ Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück : History of the former Diocese of Lebus and the country of this taking. Third part. Berlin 1832, p. 228