Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg
The Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg (German Tract on Brandenburg Castle ) is a short chronicle of the rule in Brandenburg Castle in the 12th century. It has come down to us in two manuscripts.
Manuscripts
The Tractatus is handed down in two manuscripts, which are of different lengths.
- Weimar version , around 1450/75, in the main state archive in Weimar , shorter version, text from probably after 1230.
- Magdeburg version , around 1550, in the state archive of Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg , contains an extended version that could have been supplemented around 1260/70.
content
Presumed original version
The classical philologist Christina Meckelnborg reconstructed a possible original version in 2015 by extracting some text passages from the Weimar version that differed from the rest of the text according to linguistic or content-related criteria. It cannot be determined whether such an older (more original) text contained further parts that are not contained in the manuscripts.
This possible original version briefly describes the rule of Prince Heveller Pribislaw , with his baptismal name Heinrich, and his wife Petrissa in Brandenburg Castle, their alleged inheritance promise to Albrecht the Bear , the takeover of the castle after Pribislaw's death, the conquest of the castle by the Polish Prince Jaczo and the reconquest by Albrecht and other princes.
Weimar version
This oldest surviving text version also contains a few passages that describe the role of the St. Gotthard Monastery in Brandenburg and the cathedral chapter that arose from it .
Magdeburg version
The longer manuscript contains further additions that mention the Premonstratensian Monastery of St. Marien in Leitzkau and emphasize its role as the mother monastery of the cathedral chapter.
author
The author of the treatise is probably unknown. The older Weimar version does not name an author. The later Magdeburg version names a Henricus dictus de Antwerpe (Heinrich, called von Antwerp). This is equated with the prior Heinrich in the cathedral monastery of Brandenburg, who was mentioned in documents between 1216/17 and 1227 as a witness. It can no longer be determined whether and to what extent this Heinrich was involved in drafting the treatise. Christina Meckelnborg thinks it is an invention.
rating
All versions are guided by interests. The first possible original version is supposed to legitimize the takeover of power by Albrecht the Bear in Brandenburg Castle in 1150 and 1157. He had no real inheritance claims to the castle, in contrast to Jaczo, who was an uncle of Pribislaw. Therefore, a promise of inheritance was made , which is said to have been common in this people.
The expanded Weimar version is intended to emphasize the claims of the Brandenburg Cathedral Chapter to parts of Brandenburg Castle, possibly in connection with the Brandenburg tithe dispute in the 1230s over rights and income. The even more extensive Magdeburg version highlights the importance of the Leirkau Premonstratensian Monastery of St. Marien as the mother monastery of the cathedral chapter, possibly in connection with its claims to maintain participation in the election of the Brandenburg bishop in the 1260s.
Text output
- All three versions are printed in Latin and a German translation at
- Christina Meckelnborg : Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg. The oldest evidence of Brandenburg history. Text analysis and edition. (= Writings of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg, New Series Vol. 7). Lukas Verlag Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-86732-215-7 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Reviews
- Dietrich Kurz , in: Yearbook for Berlin-Brandenburg Church History . Vol. 70, 2015, pp. 328-330.
- Jerzy Strzelczyk , in: Roczniki historyczne 81, 2015, pp. 233-234.
- Enno Bünz , in: New archive for Saxon history . Vol. 87, 2016, pp. 306-307.
literature
- Christina Meckelnborg : Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg. The oldest evidence of Brandenburg history. Text analysis and edition. (= Writings of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg, New Series Vol. 7). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-86732-215-7 . ( Digitized version )
- Christina Meckelnborg : The Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg. In: Rüdiger von Schnurbein (Ed.): Constantly new. 850 years of the Brandenburg Cathedral on the Havel. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945256-26-8 , pp. 35–41.
- Lutz Partenheimer : The emergence of the Mark Brandenburg. With a Latin-German source attachment. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-17106-3 .
Web links
- Tractatus de captione urbis Brandenburg in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Text and translations by Tilo Köhn ( Memento from February 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Literature in the opac of the MGH library
- Magdeburg , State Archive Saxony-Anhalt , Cop., No. 390: http://recherche.landesarchiv.sachsen-anhalt.de/Query/detail.aspx?ID=1189510
- Christina Meckelnborg : Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg . In: Historical Lexicon of Brandenburg . March 7, 2018.