Treaty of Vietmannsdorf

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The Treaty of Vietmannsdorf , also known as the Wittmannsdorf Treaty , was signed between Prince Heinrich II of Mecklenburg and the Ascanian Margrave of Brandenburg on January 15, 1304 in what is now Vietmannsdorf . The treaty secured Henry II the land of Stargard as a fief and peace for the land itself for ten years.

prehistory

Map of Mecklenburg around 1300

In 1292 Heinrich II - also called the lion - married Beatrix of Brandenburg . The daughter of the Brandenburg margrave Albrecht III. brought the land of Stargard into the marriage as a Wittum . After the death of his sons Otto and Johann (1298 or 1299) Albrecht III sold. the land as a fiefdom for his son-in-law. However, this remained owed the purchase price. As Albrecht III. In 1300 died, his nephew Hermann inherited the Land of Stargard from the Ottonian line of the Ascanian Margraves of Brandenburg. Heinrich II was initially not accepted by him as a feudal man . But since he wanted to win the war-experienced Mecklenburg man as a comrade-in-arms for an alliance with the Bohemian King Wenzel II to assert common interests against the Roman-German King Albrecht I , he gave in and concluded the Wittmannsdorf Treaty with Heinrich II .

Content of the contract

In the contract it was first recorded and guaranteed that Heinrich II owed the purchase price for the Land Stargard in the amount of 3,000  silver marks . Now Hermann left the land to him for "5000 marks of Brandenburg silver and Brandenburg weight" as a fiefdom and his wife Beatrix as personal belongings . Should heirs be born to the spouses, the land of Stargard would continue to be given to them as a hereditary fief, otherwise it would revert to the margrave and his children. "Excepted from the contract were " the coin and the iron at Lychen that we should keep and our heirs, including the Brandenburg pfennigs there, and our mint masters have the right to change in the state of Stargard, the one from Mecklenburg should not prevent us from doing this or. " someone on his account. " The Lychener mint remained in the possession of the Brandenburg margraves, the Brandenburg pfennig as currency in circulation and the currency exchange the prerogative of the Brandenburg mint masters . It was determined that the purchase price for the fiefdom was to be paid in parts of 1,000 marks each in Templin on the holidays of Martini (November 11th) and Walpurgis (May 1st). In addition to Heinrich II, Nikolaus von Werle , Prince Wizlaw III, vouched for the payment . von Rügen , Count Nikolaus I and Gunzelin V. von Schwerin, Count von Gützkow, 43 knights and 7 miners and the council of the cities of Neubrandenburg , Friedland , Stargard , Lychen and Woldegk . In addition, it was stipulated in the contract that Heinrich II. “Can give his men in the Land of Stargard as fief whatever he wants”. The contract document was sealed by Hermann and also by the margraves of the Johannine line.

Progress

In the same year, Heinrich II. And the Brandenburg margraves set out for Bohemia with 400 followers in order to take the wages of King Wenceslaus II to the field against the Roman-German King Albrecht I. The basis was an alliance concluded at the same time as the Wittmannsdorf Treaty . The Bohemian campaign went without major fighting and was finally canceled. Heinrich II owed his nickname - the lion - to this “Bohemian journey” because he did not want to clear the field “right as eyn Lewe” before Albrecht I. For his participation in the campaign, Heinrich received from the Bohemian king a pay of 1000 shock Prague groschen . He used this to pay off his fief in full and thus finally secure the land of Stargard.

Margrave Hermann died on February 1, 1308. He left his six-year-old son Johann V , for whom Margrave Waldemar ruled the Margraviate of Brandenburg as guardian . When Beatrix von Brandenburg died on September 22, 1314, the state of Stargard became a theater of war again. The Brandenburgers no longer recognized Heinrich II as a feudal man and claimed the land for themselves. In 1315 Waldemar then invaded Stargard in the North German Margrave War (1308-1317). Heinrich II was finally able to finally defeat Waldemar in the battle of Gransee in August 1316 and, with the Peace of Templin (November 25, 1317), he was granted Stargard rule as a Brandenburg fiefdom.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Franz Christian Boll : Heinrich von Mecklenburg in possession of the Land Stargard with Lychen and Wesenberg. The Wittmannsdorf Treaty. In: History of the Land of Stargard up to 1471. Volume 1. Neustrelitz 1846, pp. 123–129. (Digitized version)
  2. ^ A b c d Hermann Krabbo : The transition of the state of Stargard from Brandenburg to Mecklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 91 (1927), pp. 7-8. (Digitized version)
  3. ^ Sophia-Caroline Kosel: Historical meeting on the border, in the Uckermark town of Vietmannsdorf, Mecklenburgers reconcile with their Brandenburg neighbors. In: Nordkurier. July 9, 2004.
  4. ↑ a b c on the treaty of 1304 ( website Vietmannsdorf )
  5. ↑ Michael Kunzel: On the history of coinage in the Land of Stargard up to the end of the Principality of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1918. "So schole wi Brandenborghessche Penninghe take away." In: Mecklenburg-Strelitz, contributions to the history of a region. Volume 2. Friedland / Meckl 2002, ISBN 3-9807532-7-1 , p. 253 f.
  6. ^ A b c Franz Christian Boll: Bohemian campaign. 1304. Henry the Lion. The little country Arnsberg. In: History of the Land of Stargard up to 1471. Volume 1. Neustrelitz 1846, pp. 130-131. (Digitized version)
  7. ↑ EB / Gerlinde Kienitz: Stargard came to Mecklenburg as a fief. In: Nordkurier. Leafed through the history of the Strelitzer Land (2) .