Wagria
The name Wagrien ( Waierland , Wagerland , Wagrien (Slavic): 'who live on the bays') refers to the northeastern part of Holstein in the state of Schleswig-Holstein , which roughly corresponds to the districts of Plön and Ostholstein .
Since the Middle Ages, and still visible on old maps, Wagrien was bounded by the Baltic Sea to the northeast from the Kiel Fjord to the Bay of Lübeck , inland by the Schwentine and Trave rivers . Today only the Oldenburg peninsula in East Holstein is usually referred to as Wagrien.
The name Wagrien goes to the Slavic tribe of Wagrians back, who lived not only today's Peninsula Wagrien, but at least since the 8th century, the entire space between Kiel Fjord, the average Travelodge and the lower reaches of the river. The central Wagrier castle was in Oldenburg in Holstein (at that time Starigard , 'old castle'), the wall of which still exists. Important places of the Wagrier were Oldenburg and Alt- Lübeck ( Liubice ) as well as Plön ( Plune ). The Slavic past Wagrien was researched in particular by Karl Wilhelm Struve and is visualized in the Oldenburg Wall Museum.
In 1143, Count Adolf II von Holstein, according to the vivid report of the contemporary chronicler Helmold von Bosau, brought in German settlers from the areas he ruled Holstein and Stormarn as well as from Westphalia and Holland in order to develop the state of Wagrien profitably as part of the high medieval development :
“Thereupon an innumerable crowd from different tribes set out, took families and belongings with them and came to Count Adolf in Wagrien to take possession of the promised land. First of all, the Holsten received residences in the best protected area west of Segeberg, on the Trave, in the Schwentinefeld plain and everything that stretches from the Schwale to the Grimmelsberg and the Plöner See. The Darguner Land was populated by the Westphalia, the Eutin by the Dutch and Süsel by the Frisians. The Plön area, however, remained uninhabited. He had Oldenburg and Lütjenburg as well as the other coastal areas settled by the Slavs, and they paid him interest. "
The resident Slavs were therefore included in this land development and not expelled.
The highest point on the peninsula is the Bungsberg at 168 m .
literature
- Hermann Witt: 1000 years of Wagrien from Luitschaburg to Lütjenburg. Sönksen Verlag, Plön 1982.
- Wilhelm Ohnesorge : Culture of the old Wagrier , Bay of Lübeck , 1926 and 1927
Coordinates: 54 ° 15 ' N , 10 ° 30' E