Neumark or East Brandenburg Neumark or Ostbrandenburg (de) Nowa Marchia (pl) terra trans Oderam (la) |
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Region of the Margraviate of Brandenburg | |||||
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Coat of arms of Brandenburg, shared by the Neumark |
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The Margraviate of Brandenburg c. 1320, showing the Neumark as the portion reaching out to the east. Cross-hatched are territories also acquired by the House of Ascania outside of Brandenburg. | |||||
Capital | Soldin | ||||
Historical era |
Middle Ages, Modern era |
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• | Lubusz Land bought by Mgvt Brandenburg and Abp Magdeburg | 1252 | |||
• | Pawned to the Teutonic Knights | 1402–63a | |||
• | Partitioned to form Brandenburg-Küstrin | 1535–71 | |||
• | Electors inherited Duchy of Prussia | 1618 | |||
• | Expanded on abolition of Posen-West Prussia | 1938 | |||
• | Potsdam Conference awarded most of Neumark to Poland | 17 July – 2 Aug 1945 | |||
• | Reorganised to Lubusz Voivodeship | 1 January 1999 | |||
Today part of | |||||
a: Pawned to the Teutonic Knights in 1402, who gained complete control of the territory by 1429. Pawned back to Brandenburg in 1455, whose reacquisition of the territory was completed in 1463. |
Margraviate of Brandenburg-Küstrin | ||||||||||
Markgrafschaft Brandenburg-Küstrin | ||||||||||
State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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Capital | Soldin (to 1548)a Küstrin (from 1548)b |
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Government | Principality | |||||||||
Margrave | John | |||||||||
Historical era | Early modern age | |||||||||
• | Partitioned from Brandenburg |
1535 | ||||||||
• | Reabsorbed into Brandenburg |
1571 | ||||||||
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Today part of |
Poland Germany |
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a: Soldin is now the Polish city of Myślibórz b: Küstrin straddled the Oder-Neisse line, so was partitioned after World War II and is now Kostrzyn nad Odrą in Poland and the Küstriner Vorland in Germany. |
Coat of arms of Brandenburg, shared by the Neumark
The Neumark ( listen ), also known as the New March (Polish: Nowa Marchia) or as East Brandenburg (German: Ostbrandenburg ), was a region of the Margraviate of Brandenburg and its successors located east of the Oder River in territory which became part of Poland in 1945.