An old water castle with a merchants' settlement round the brick church later known as St Kunigunde's (the empress is canonised only in spring 1200); a planned market settlement west of the old village is first named in a charter of Margrave Dietrich of 1200 (date in the year not pinned), so the margrave is its lord about this time.
Called a town only in 1251.
Who holds it
- Name
- Margrave Dietrich of Meissen (medium confidence)
- Title
- Lord of the place
- Since
- Not pinned
- Confidence
- medium
Lord in 1200
Margrave Dietrich of Meissen (medium confidence)
How things stand that morning
The margrave's.
Charter
None yet.
Communities
Merchants; Augustinian canons at Wenigenborn.
Walls and castle
Water castle.
Trade and crafts
Market on the road from Leipzig to Altenburg.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: de.wikipedia.
Primary sources for Meissen
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Annals of Jarloch (Gerlach), abbot of Milevsko, Jarloch of Milevsko (about 1200 to 1220). The last Bohemian narrative before 1200, continuing Vincentius of Prague. Read online
- Annals of Pegau; Annals of Magdeburg (12th and 13th centuries; Pegau continued to 1227). The annals of the Wettin lands and of Magdeburg. Read online
- Chronicle of the Lauterberg (Petersberg near Halle), Konrad of Lauterberg (about 1225). The house chronicle of the Wettin foundation on the Lauterberg, sharp-tongued and well informed on Saxony, Meissen and Magdeburg. Read online
- Chronicle of Reinhardsbrunn; Chronicle of St Peter's, Erfurt (Erfurt chronicle in the 13th century; Reinhardsbrunn compilation about 1340 to 1349 from older annals). The two Thuringian chronicles. Read online
- Royal Chronicle of Cologne (in stages from about 1175 to about 1250; the section on 1198 to 1220 written soon after the events). The fullest German narrative of the throne war from the Welf and Cologne side. Read online
- Deeds of the archbishops of Magdeburg (main text to 1142, continued in the 13th and 14th centuries). The Magdeburg house history, with a continuation covering Archbishop Ludolf of Kroppenstedt (1192 to 1205), a firm supporter of Philip who hosted the king's Christmas court at Magdeburg on 25 December 1199. Read online
- Charters and letters of the kingdom of Bohemia, volume 2, 1198 to 1230 (documents of 1198 to 1230, edited 1912). The critical edition of every Bohemian and Moravian charter and letter from Ottokar I's accession to 1230.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.