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Mecklenburg was formerly the site of many prehistoric dolmen tombs. The area was occupied by the Obotrites and other tribes that Frankish sources referred to a " Wends".
The name derives from a castle named "Mikilenburg" ( Old German: "big castle"), located between the cities of Schwerin and Wismar. Henry the LionHenry the Lion (face of statue on his tomb in Brunswick Cathedral Henry the Lion ( 1129/ 1131 August 6 1195; in German, Heinrich der Lowe was Duke of Saxony as Henry III since 1142, and Duke of Bavaria as Henry XII since 1156, both until 1180. He was the conquered the region and ChristianizedThe historical phenomenon of Christianization a term for the conversion of individuals to Christianity and for the conversion of entire peoples at once (a political shift as much as a spontaneous mass shift in individual consciences), also covers the prac its people, in a precursor to the Northern CrusadesThe Northern Crusades or Baltic Crusades were undertaken by Western Europeans against the "still heathen" people of North Eastern Europe around the Baltic Sea. The official starting point for the Northern Crusades was Pope Celestine III's call in 1193, bu. The 11th century founder of the Mecklenburgian dynasty of Dukes and later Archdukes, which lasted until 1918, was Niklot .
Over the centuries the territory has remained relatively stable, being conquered neither by SwedenThe Kingdom of Sweden Konungariket Sverige in Swedish) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf (except for Wismar) nor PrussiaThe word Prussia ( German: Preussen (Preussen Polish: Prusy Lithuanian: Prusai Latin: Borussia has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia. Mecklenburg, besides Bavaria and a few others, is among the few German territories that remained pretty much the same and relatively independent since the end of the Middle AgesThe Middle Ages formed the middle period in a schematic division of European history into three 'ages': Classical civilization, the Middle Ages, and Modern Civilization. It is commonly dated from the end of the Western Roman Empire ( 5th century) until th.
In the 14th century Albert, Duke of MecklenburgAlbert of Mecklenburg or Albrekt av Mecklenburg (appr. 1336- 1412), King of Sweden, Duke of Mecklenburg, son of Albert II of Mecklenburg and Eufemia Eriksdotter, who was daughter to Magnus II of Sweden. His reign in Sweden spanned from 1363 to 1389. The p ruled as king of Sweden, from 1363 until he was deposed in 1389.
Like many German territories, Mecklenburg was sometimes partitioned and repartitioned among different members of the dynasty. In 1621 it was divided into the two duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Güstrow . With the extinction of the Güstrow line in 1701, the Güstrow lands were redivided, part going to the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and part going to the new line of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
In 1815, the two Mecklenburgian duchies were raised to Grand Duchies, and subsequently existed separately as such in Germanyunder enlightened but absolute feudal rule (constitutions being granted on the eve of World war I) until the revolution of 1918. From 1918 to 1933 they were free states in the Weimar Republic. Adolf Hitler united them in 1933; the East German government "erased" the name Mecklenburg and created serveral large districts instead.
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