Politics 1300 up to 1350

The new rulers had established themselves in the state. Different “lords” ruled in smaller “counties” and completed the construction of towns. Administration received binding forms through legal acts that were recorded and sealed in charters. “State peace alliances” aimed to provide protection against robber barons.

The island Rügen, and with it Stralsund and Barth, fall to the Wolgast line of the Pomeranian rulers when the renowned minstrel Vitslav III., Prince of Rügen, dies without heir in 1325. The new rulers had established themselves in the state. The creation of cities comes to a close. Administration received binding forms through legal acts that were recorded and sealed in charters. “State peace alliances” aimed to provide protection against robber barons.