Burg Stargard
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Brick Gothic castle
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Location of Burg Stargard within Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district
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| Coordinates: 53°29′N 13°18′E / 53.483°N 13.300°ECoordinates: 53°29′N 13°18′E / 53.483°N 13.300°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
| District | Mecklenburgische Seenplatte | |
| Municipal assoc. | Stargarder Land | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Tilo Lorenz | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 76.55 km2 (29.56 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 50 m (160 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 5,496 | |
| • Density | 72/km2 (190/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 17094 | |
| Dialling codes | 039603 | |
| Vehicle registration | MST | |
| Website | www |
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| Lordship of Stargard | ||||||||||
| Herrschaft Stargard | ||||||||||
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| Capital | Burg Stargard | |||||||||
| Government | Principality | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | To Mecklenburg | 1292 | ||||||||
| • | Became Reichsunmittelbar | 16 October 1347 | ||||||||
| • | To Mecklenburg-Strelitz | 1701 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished in the German Revolution |
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Burg Stargard (Polabian Stargart, is a small town in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) southeast of Neubrandenburg.
The town's sights include: Germany’s most northerly hill castle, a local history museum in the castle, a historic town centre, an exhibition by Marie Hager, the well-known German artist, and the wildlife park.
The castle is first mentioned in 1170, as Stargart — meaning "old castle,"old city/town" in the now-extinct West Slavic language Polabian, Pomeranian and the only surviving cousin of Polabian, Kashubian language. The name is a combination of stari (old) and gard (town/city/castle). Allegedly, the Bishopric of Havelberg presented the castle to Broda Abbey on its foundation, but the relevant document is a forgery; the place is attested as Staregart in a later document, however, probably dating to the year 1244. Supposedly to avoid confusion with other cities named , the town has been known as Burg Stargard since 1929.
From the early 13th century, merchants and artisans started settling around the base of the castle, betraying the increasing colonization of formerly Slavic areas and being of early importance as a centre of the Lordship of Stargard, named for the castle, with a being erected in 1250. No archaeological evidence can be found for earlier Slavic settlements in the location, however. The castle is now the most northerly high castle in Germany and the oldest secular building in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
In 1259, Brandenburg awarded Stargard with town privileges. At the 1292 marriage of Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg, the Lordship was given as dowry by the Ascanians to the princes, who later became dukes of Mecklenburg, with Stargard becoming the residence of the princes of Mecklenburg-Stargard, an offshoot of the Mecklenburg dynasty, between 1352 and 1471. According to the Sächsischer Lehnsabhängigkeit, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor granted Reichsunmittelbarkeit to the territory on 16 October 1347, subsequently granting the territory as a fief of the Mecklenburg princes.
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