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19-397: The Bishopric of Havelberg was founded in 946, by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (then a prince), but the bishop tended to live in either Plattenburg or Wittstock , a few miles north of Havelberg. An early bishop was Anselm of Havelberg . The Slavic revolt of 983 brought Havelberg under the control of the pagan Wends . The city was not restored to Christian, German rule until 1147 with

38-613: A suffragan to the Archbishops of Magedeburg . A Prince-bishopric ( Hochstift ) from 1151, Havelberg as a result of the Protestant Reformation was secularised and finally annexed by the margraves of Brandenburg in 1598 . The episcopal seat was in Havelberg near the confluence of the Elbe and Havel rivers. The bishopric roughly covered the western Prignitz region, between

57-452: A visit. The oldest house is Beguinenhaus at Salzmarkt (Salt Market) built from sandstone in 1390 with a stone relief which was carved around 1400 above the entrance. This Stendal district location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bishopric of Havelberg The Bishopric of Havelberg ( German : Bistum Havelberg ) was a Roman Catholic diocese founded by King Otto I of Germany in 946, from 968

76-669: The Altmark in the west and the Brandenburgian core territory in the east. While the episcopal territory was supervised by nine Archdeacons ( Pröpste ), the bishop's—considerably smaller—secular estates were subdivided into four Ämter : King Henry the Fowler in 929 marched against the Polabian Slavs settling east of the Elbe River and defeated them in a battle near Lenzen . Occupying

95-467: The Holy Blood of Wilsnack became a famous pilgrimage site, while Dietrich Man was bishop. In 1395, Bishop Johann III Wöplitz incorporated St. Nicholas' Church at Wilsnack into his episcopal household so that two-thirds of the income flowed directly to the bishopric. Luther and others criticized it as providing an incentive for church officials to encourage dubious shrines. From the 14th century onwards,

114-612: The Northern March from 968, Havelberg diocese was occupied by revolting Lutici tribes in the Great Slav Rising of 983 and the bishops remained far from their see. Not until 150 years later, King Lothair III of Germany re-occupied Havelberg in 1130; the eastern Elbe bank was finally reconquered by the Ascanian margrave Albert the Bear in 1136/37. In 1140 the northern part of the see

133-760: The Thirty Years' War it was taken from the Danish by the imperial troops in 1627. Recaptured by the Swedes in 1631, and again in 1635 and 1636, it was in 1637 retaken by the Saxons. When the German states were dissolved in East Germany in 1952, Havelberg became part of the district of Magdeburg . When the German states were refounded during German Reunification in 1990, the whole district of Magdeburg became part of Saxony-Anhalt, including

152-658: The Wendish Crusade . Havelberg is home to a former monastery, now used as the Prignitz Museum, which was established in 1904. In 1359 Havelberg became a member of the Hanseatic League and developed into a trade center with a booming economy. Havelberg remained a member of the Hanseatic League until 1559. Havelberg was part of Brandenburg for most of its history. Havelberg was formerly a strong fortress, but during

171-543: The 10th and 16th centuries. From the 12th century, its bishops also ruled the Hochstift Brandenburg . The foundation charter of the Brandenburg diocese is dated 1 October 948, though the actual founding date remained disputed among historians. The medieval chronicler Thietmar of Merseburg mentions the year 938; the bishopric may also have been established in the course of the partition of the vast Marca Geronis and

190-482: The Bishopric of Havelberg turned Lutheran and from 1554 was administrated by Joachim Frederick of Hohenzollern , son of Elector John George of Brandenburg . The Bishopric was finally secularised and incorporated into Brandenburg in 1571. Its annexation was complete, when Joachim Frederick succeeded his father as Brandenburg elector in 1598. Diocese of Brandenburg The diocese of Brandenburg existed between

209-630: The Havelberg bishops also used Plattenburg Castle as a summer residence. After long-lasting quarrels with the mighty Brandenburg prince-electors , the Premonstratensian chapter finally gave in to transform Havelberg into a collegiate church ( Stift ). From 1514 onwards the deans of the cathedral were appointed by the Margraves of Brandenburg. In the course of the Protestant Reformation,

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228-404: The bishops held no secular rights in the town of Havelberg itself, which was enfeoffed to the Brandenburg margraves. A charter issued by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to declare the residence an episcopal city was never carried out, and in the following centuries, the Havelberg bishops gradually moved their residence to their Amt Wittstock about 50 kilometres (31 mi) to the northeast. In 1383

247-514: The building of St. Mary's Cathedral, which was consecrated in 1170. Originally built as a Romanesque basilica, the Cathedral was severely damaged by fire in 1279 and then converted to the Gothic style. The complex eventually grew to include a priory, deanery, brewery, oast house, hospital, school, and residences for the canons. The diocesan and secular territory were already separated in 1151. However,

266-602: The eastern riverbank, Henry had a fortification built on a hill above the Havel tributary, near its mouth into the Elbe. His son Otto I continued the expeditions and in 936/37 established the Saxon Eastern March ( Marca Geronis ) on the conquered territories. In 948 he founded the dioceses of Havelberg and Brandenburg , initially suffragans to the Archbishops of Mainz , from 968 to the newly established Archdiocese of Magdeburg. Part of

285-759: The emergence of the Northern March after Margrave Gero 's death in 965. With the foundation, King Otto ( Holy Roman Emperor from 962) aimed at the Christianization of the Polabian Slavs ( Wends ) and the incorporation of their territory into the East Frankish realm. Brandenburg was originally a suffragan of the Archbishopric of Mainz , but in 968 it came under the jurisdiction of the Magdeburg archbishops. The Great Slav Rising of 983 practically annihilated it, when revolting Lutici tribes conquered Brandenburg and

304-471: The formerly Brandenburgian town of Havelberg. Havelberg has a historical centre with many well-preserved wooden buildings, e.g. in Kirchstraße and Scabellstraße. The St. Mary's Cathedral was founded in 1170 and transformed into an impressive gothic building from 1279-1330. It is on a hill offering a beautiful view of the old town centre where St. Laurentius, a parish church which was built around 1300, deserves

323-637: The neighbouring Bishopric of Havelberg . Brandenburg bishops continued to be appointed, but they were merely titular, residing in Magdeburg or acting as auxiliary bishops in the western territories of the Empire. Not until the final subjugation of the Wends in the 12th century by Margrave Albert the Bear , the German eastward settlement ( Ostsiedlung ) in the diocesan region revived the bishopric. Bishop Wigers of Brandenburg (acting 1138–60), an adherent of Norbert of Xanten ,

342-524: Was annexed to the newly formed Bishopric of Cammin . The first and most famous Prince-Bishop of Havelberg was the Premonstratensian canon Anselm of Havelberg , who had been anointed already in 1129 by the Magedeburg archbishop Norbert of Xanten . Anselm first took his seat at Jerichow in 1144. Upon the Wendish Crusade in 1147, he was able to found a cathedral chapter at Havelberg and to begin

361-477: Was the first of a series of bishops of the Premonstratensian Order, which chose the occupants of the episcopal see until 1447; in that year a bull of Pope Nicholas V gave the right of nomination to the Brandenburg elector , with whom the bishops stood in a close feudal relation. Bishop Wigers also established a Premonstratensian convent at Leitzkau (today part of Gommern, Saxony-Anhalt). Probably at

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