The years 1400 to 1499

1407

 

Took place the establishment of the Karthäuser monastery Marienkron at Rügenwalde.

1412

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The mayor Henricus Keteliss was ordered as an envoy of the city Rügenwalde to the Hanse day.

 

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Since this time the city has been a member direct of the Hanse .

1418

 

The cities Stolp, Schlawe and Rügenwalde closed a defence association to protect the domestic trade, predominantly against the predatory knighthood.

1449-1459

 

King Erich , the nordic union king (1412-1439) and duke of Stolp-Pomerania, was got with 7 Rügenwalder and Stolper ships from the siege of its fixed castle at Wisby (on the Swedish Island Gotland), by its former nordic subjects, and resided thereafter still ten years on the duke castle as a duke of Stolp-Pomerania. Again and again there were vexation with the city dwellers also here.

1455

 

Rügenwalde gave a letter of refusal to powerful Amsterdam.

1459

 

Erich I. (dan.: Erik VII.) "the Pomeranian" died with 77 years on 16 June 1459 at Rügenwalde.

1464

 

On 5 July 1464 the trade agreement with Amsterdam was then signed nevertheless.

1465

 

The German Order was destroyed by the order crowds, by the dissatisfied aristocracy and Prussian cities (Prussian federation) and Poland. After the second Thorner peace they had to transfer the Kulmerland, which Ermland and Pommerellen and Danzig, Elbing and the Marien castle at Poland and to recognise the Polish sovereignty over their remaining possessions.

1474-1523

 

Governed duke Bogislaw X. from Pomerania, he deceased on 30 September 1523.

1474-1483

 

On the castle resided duchess Sophie, the wife of Erich II., the mother of duke Bogislaw X..

1480

 

Duke Bogislaw X. governs at West-Pomerania. At the year 1480 he let tear off the so-called "Erich wing" of the castle and attach on the western outside wall the "Wipper wing".

1493

 

Rügenwalde became the Fishing houses, at the "dead water", from the pomeranian duke Bogislaw X. awarded.

1493-1497

 

On the castle lived the second wife of Bogislaw X. duchess Anna, daughter of king Casimir IV. of Poland.

1497

 

On 17. September 1497 there was the largest storm tide ever at the pomeranian coast.

     


The duke castle