In the early medieval migrations left the Germanic tribes and the settlement area between Lower Elbe, Saale and Oder largely. Invaded by these 600 Slavs from the territory east of the Oder one. The West Slavs (“Turn”) were in the West Mecklenburg Obotrites (or Abotriten) and east of Mecklenburg and Pomerania in the Wilzen or Liutizi. Characteristic of the Slav settlements were castles seats as rulers and political centers. Originally they were built on hilltops, created later with ramparts in areas with poor access to lakes and rivers.

The seat of Mecklenburg Obotritenfürsten, 6 Located miles from Wismar, gave the country its name. The “Michelsburg” was first 995 mentioned, als Kaiser Otto III. here did issue a certificate. More Slavic castles were in, among other things Schwerin, Teterow, Merl, Krakow, Quetzin, Loitz and Demmin. The castle served as a refuge in times of war for the villagers of the surrounding. In addition to the princes and nobles took priest a prominent position. This is documented by the Temple castles in Arkona on Rügen, in Rethra oder Swante Wastrow, The sacred island.

Grown up alongside the ruler and the temple sitting in a process of fortresses, comparable with the emergence of cities in Western Europe, even before the German colonization of city-like structures. These fortified places had in addition to military and cultural institutions and offices of merchants.

Here settled down next to the Slavs and Scandinavians Friesen. Intensive economic activities, especially the settlement Jumme unfolded at the mouth of the Oder and Stettin. Speaks of the importance of urban facilities and, that Christian missionaries already 1140 temporarily established a bishopric in Szczecin.

The Obotrites reached a territorial domination in the West Mecklenburg, The extended deep into the territory of Liutizi. They had to defend themselves against incursions German rulers to defend. Sun formed an alliance with Charles the Great against the rebellious Saxons Obotrites. After their subjugation 789 penetrated deep into the Frankish army Slavic areas off to the Peene. However, the German Emperor wanted to protect with such features primarily the eastern border of the Empire.

Temporarily subdued Otto the Great and put the Obotrites Herrmann Billung the Margrave in East Holstein, Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. In the great Slavic uprising 983 Mark was the county, but lost again. Der files Saxonius, the Saxon border wall, featured in the aftermath of Boizenburg on the Elbe to the Kiel Bight the border against the Wends.

The Slavic tribes in Western Pomerania could not establish territorial sovereignty. They were from the north of the Vikings berdrängt, to the 900 the Jomsborg, later Wollin, had founded and from there ruled large parts of the Baltic Sea. From the Viking era evidence is only found on the island Hiddensee gold jewelery and the remains of a castle on the Peenemündung.Ihre culture fused with elements of Slavic. The Polish King Boleslaw I. Intrepid (992-1025) A Christian Ruler, who was imbued with the Great Commission, subdued the pagan tribes of Pomeranians and Liutizi temporarily under Polish suzerainty.

Even today, many interpret local- and landscape names, derived from natural and gender, attention to the Slav settlements; the Pommeranen, po = Morje of living by the sea; Brats = mountain;

Place names ending in-ow, -itz, -nitz, -and in-jokes.

-ow as in the Local- and clan names Rambow is a Slavic place-names ending, which is found mainly in Poland and East Germany. It is a patronymes Suffix.-ow (-at): from Slavic-ov, of. B. Malchow, Lüchow

Example:

Buckow, Ducherow, Finow, Gatow, Güstrow, Lüchow, Lützow, Kummerow, Pankow, Rathenow, Strehlow, Strelow, Stresow, Teltow, Treptow place names, the still 19. Century were often written with-ow, include Spandau (Spandow) and Stralau (Stralow).

Other possibilities of origin

Links of the same can-ow (with a long o) an old spelling of Gowe, goodie = Gau(and) (At(and), as it is still preserved in Swiss landscapes, be interpreted. The old German spelling-ow(and) developed to au-(and). The districts go back to the reign of Charlemagne.

You are witnesses of the former Frankish state administration and the continued use of place names, which are found mainly in eastern Germany, forwarded in Slavic languages. It is a patronymes or. possessive (possesivisches) Suffix aus Personennamen, according to the spread in the Southwest-sounding. Often, the original ow-to-au reinterpreted, What then has nothing to do with the flood plain. The old German spelling ow(and) developed into au(and). Das ‘w’ was in the old German as a double-u (uu) written; in English, the letter w still double-u (“Doppel-u”) called. Even today 'v’ one used as a 'u'.’ was in the old German as a double-u (uu) written; in English, the letter w still double-u (“Doppel-u”) called. Even today 'v’ one used as a 'u'.

The Obotrites reached a territorial domination in the West Mecklenburg, The extended deep into the territory of Liutizi. They had to defend themselves against incursions German rulers to defend. Sun formed an alliance with Charles the Great against the rebellious Saxons Obotrites. After their subjugation 789 penetrated deep into the Frankish army Slavic areas off to the Peene.

However, the German Emperor wanted to protect with such features primarily the eastern border of the Empire. Temporarily subdued Otto the Great and put the Obotrites Herrmann Billung the Margrave in East Holstein, Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. In the great Slavic uprising 983 Mark was the county, but lost again. Der files Saxonius, the Saxon border wall, featured in the aftermath of Boizenburg on the Elbe to the Kiel Bight the border against the Wends.

The Slavic tribes in Western Pomerania could not establish territorial sovereignty. They were from the north of the Vikings berdrängt, to the 900 the Jomsborg, later Wollin, had founded and from there ruled large parts of the Baltic Sea. From the Viking era evidence is only found on the island Hiddensee gold jewelery and the remains of a castle on the Peenemündung.Ihre culture fused with elements of Slavic. The Polish King Boleslaw I. Intrepid (992-1025) A Christian Ruler, who was imbued with the Great Commission, subdued the pagan tribes of Pomeranians and Liutizi temporarily under Polish suzerainty.

Centuries ago, all Slavic tribes known as contact.

In my case, Wendisch-Rambow at Bad Little (See photo above) The name "contact" has been used for the 6. Jrh. n. Chr. used for all Slavs. For this term, there are different explanations. A means: The word goes back to the "Venedi" back, who were on the Vistula's eastern neighbors of the Germans.

Literature:

• Tetzner, Franz: The Slavs in Germany. Contributions to Volksunde of Prussia, Lithuanians and Latvians, Masuria and the Phil Ipponen, the Czechs, Mahrer and sorbent, Polabs and Slovincians, Kachuben and Poland, Brunswick: Four-way, 1902
• Giesebrecht Ludwig, Wendish history: The Contact – Wendish stories from the years 780 to 1182 Berlin 1843 (Alternativ-Download)
• Karl Heinrich Tromler: Collections on the history of ancient pagan and then Christian Vogtland, Leipzig: Witzleben 1767
• Bergen: Meissen Country- and Mountain Chronicles, Dresden, 1590
• Kühnel, Paul: The Slavic place names in Mecklenburg, in: Annals of the Association of Mecklenburg's history and archeology, Band 46 (1881), S. 3-168
• Wagner, Richard: The Alliance of Charlemagne with the Abodrites In: Mecklenburg Association for History and Archaeology: Annals of the Association of Mecklenburg's history and archeology. – Bd. 63 (1898), S. 89-129
• Carl Friedrich von Rumohr: Of their relative long since ordinary notions of a glorious Wineta to our positive Kennntniß the culture and art of the German Baltic Slavs. In: Collection of Art and History. Perthes & Better, Hamburg, First volume of First Book. 1816

 

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