Zirzipans
The Zirzipanen (also Circipanen , dt. "Around the Peene") were a medieval Elbslavischer tribe and one of the tribes of the Liutizen . They settled around the Teterower See in what is now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Their tribal area Zirzipanien included the Burgward districts Demmin , Dargun , Krakow am See , Sukow and Altkalen . This is the area south of the Recknitz and Trebel and west of the Malchiner See and Kummerower See , in the area of the old districts of Güstrow (eastern part) and Demmin .
In the 7th century this area was settled by Slavs, from whom the tribe of the Zirzipans later formed, which is mentioned for the first time in 955 as Zcirizspanis in the entry in the St. Gallen annals for that year . Later Adam von Bremen reported in his Hamburg Church History and Helmold von Bosau in the Slavic Chronicle of the Zirzipans. In the 11th and 12th centuries the country came under Danish rule several times. a. the obodrites and pomorans against Zirzipanien and the tribe was almost exterminated. Zirzipan western areas came to the Obodriten principality, the later Mecklenburg , while the Demmin area remained with Pomerania . From 1131 until his death in 1160, the Obodritic prince Niklot was ruler of the Zirzipans. In 1147 the Wenden Crusade and several Danish campaigns after 1170 devastated the area several times. The area was later settled by Germans in the course of the eastern settlement , the remaining zirzipans were assimilated.
At Behren-Lübchin there was another strongly fortified island castle from the 10th to 12th centuries, which was very likely mentioned in the report by Saxo Grammaticus from 1171. The castle was probably conquered by the Danes at the end of the 12th century.
literature
- Hansjürgen Brachmann , Elzbieta Foster, Christine Kratzke, Heike Reimann (eds.): The Cistercian monastery Dargun in the tribal area of the Zirzipans. An interdisciplinary contribution to research into medieval settlement processes in Germania Slavica (= research on the history and culture of eastern Central Europe . Volume 17 ). Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08268-9 ( Google Books ).
Remarks
- ↑ Ann. Sangall. May. a. 955: Eodem anno Otto rex et filius eius Liutolf in festi vitate sancti Galli pugnaverunt cum Abatarenis, et Vulcis, et Zcirizspanis, et Tolonsenis, et victoriam in eis sumpsit, occiso duce illorum nomine Ztoignavo, et fecit illos tributarios.