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Oderburg – Oderburg Castle, although it has long ceased to exist, arouses great interest among both the residents of Western Pomerania and visiting guests. It was located between the present-day Ignacy Łyskowski Street (formerly Burgstrasse), the small streets of Schifferstrasse (Żeglarska, later liquidated after the war) connecting with Werftstrasse (Stoczniowa, also non-existent), as well…
Dynastic policy The reign of Duke Bogusław X, who died in 1523, was a turning point—a transition from the medieval monarchy to the modern state and Renaissance culture (also in its political dimension). He had nine legitimate children: Christopher (d. c. 1521), Anne (b. 1491/1492, d. 1550), George (1493–1531), Casimir (1494–1518), Elizabeth (d. before 1518),…
Augustine was a monk at the Augustinian monastery in Stargard. In older literature, he was referred to as Angelus; however, more recent research indicates that the more accurate form of his name is Augustine. His work, which has survived to our day through copies included in later records, is the so-called Protocol (Protocollum), written in…
There are few figures in the medieval history of Western Pomerania of such stature as the King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, and Duke of Słupsk, Eric of Pomerania. His life embodies nearly everything that fate can prepare for a human being, beginning with his almost miraculous discovery in childhood by the Danish Queen Margaret…
Stargard’s Church of St. Mary, which currently serves as a collegiate church, is the most important Late Gothic monument of Western Pomerania. Its architecture, despite the near-total destruction of the Old Town, did not suffer too severely, and the “renovation of the century” carried out in recent years restored the splendor of its re-Gothicization conducted…
The Hanseatic League was primarily a community of merchants engaged in long-distance trade. Western Pomerania was the Baltic coastal region with the highest number of members in this union, which included the following urban centers: Białogard, Darłowo, Goleniów, Gryfice, Kamień, Kołobrzeg, Koszalin, Sławno, Słupsk, Stargard, Szczecin, Trzebiatów, and Wolin. Their participation in Hanseatic life was…
Cechy w pomorskich miastach zaczęły się kształtować w II połowie XIII wieku. W niektórych ośrodkach ich rozwój zapoczątkowały już przywileje lokacyjne wspominające o możliwości zakładania organizacji zawodowych i wolności gospodarczej. W innych proces powstawania systemu cechowego przebiegał stopniowo. Przyczyniała się do tego z jednej strony koncentracja produkcji, z drugiej zaś walka konkurencyjna. W zasadzie w…
In the era of the Age of Discovery, new trade routes were formed. The Mediterranean Sea was losing its significance, while the role of routes passing through the Baltic and North Seas was growing. States with capitalist economies began to emerge in Europe, needing raw materials from Central and Eastern Europe for their development. Their…
Ostatni Gryfita Bogusław XIV urodził się 31 marca 1580 roku na zamku w Barth i był trzecim z kolei synem Bogusława XIII i jego pierwszej żony Klary księżnej brunszwickiej. W młodości wraz z braćmi pobierał nauki domowe. Jednocześnie był też przygotowywany przez ojca do pełnienia samodzielnych rządów. Uczestniczył w obradach sejmików stanów pomorskich, zapoznawał…
Pomeranian-Polish relations in the times of the Griffins in the 12th century included the exercise of supremacy over the Duchy of Pomerania by Polish rulers (Polish fiefdom). In the following centuries, mutual relations were based on dynastic ties, including those of Bogislaw X with Anna Jagiellon (1491), as well as political and military alliances against…
