Contract at the Dragebrücke

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The contract at the Dragebrücke was a feudal treaty that was concluded on September 3, 1273 on a bridge on the Drage between the Margraves Johann , Otto and Conrad I of Brandenburg and the Pomeranian Duke Mestwin II .

In the contract, which had come about through the mediation of Bishop Hermann von Kammin , Mestwin II took the lands of Schlawe , Rügenwalde and Stolp in Western Pomerania as fiefs from the margraves, as previously in the feudal contract of Arnswalde , which also included other parts Pommerellens included. The reason for this second, i.e. double contract, is not clearly clarified. It has been argued that the first contract may have since been terminated.

Historians suspect that the place of the conclusion of the contract at the Dragebrücke was a fortified weir system on a Dragebrücke at the Dragepass near the place Hochzeit in Pomeranian Switzerland , which might have served to protect the bridge in question, for example at the point where Reichsstrasse 1 later crossed the drage led.

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold : History of Pomerania and Ruegen . Second part. Perthes, Hamburg 1640, p. 545, online .
  • Hans-Joachim Fey: Journey and rule of the margraves of Brandenburg (1134-1319) . Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-412-03880-6 , p. 128 ff.
  • Gustav Ueberhorst: The Saxony-Lauenburg succession dispute up to the bombing of Ratzeburg 1689–1693 (= historical studies , edited by Emil Ebering, vol. 126). Ebering, Berlin 1915, p. 26.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scriptores rerum Prussicarum - The historical sources of the Prussian prehistoric times up to the fall of the order . Volume I, Hirzel, Leipzig 1861, p. 693, note 57 .
  2. ↑ When the contract was signed, the Schlawe and Rügenwalde regions were still under the direct rule of Rügen by Prince Wizlaw II.
  3. ↑ Richard Roepell : Geschichte Polens , Perthes, Hamburg 1840, p. 552 ff. And footnote 31 .

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