Mecklenburg , Northeast Historical Region Germany , along the Baltic Coastal Plain , about 160 km east of the Bay of Lübeck. It is now included in the German Country (state) of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania ( see there ).
Up to the 7th century n . Ch. Had the Slavic Obodrites and the Lutycy (Lyutichi) replaced the earlier Germanic inhabitants of the region to the west and east respectively. 1160 were placed under Henry the Lion , Duke by Saxony , introduced Christianity and German rule. Przybysław (Přibislav), son of the vanquished obodritic ruler Niklot, became Henry's vassal and founded the Mecklenburg Dynasty . In a series of dividing walls, four separate lines were erected in the 13th century by Przybysław's great-grandson:Mecklenburg (named after the Mikilinborg family castle south of Wismar), Rostock , Güstrow (or Werle) and Parchim. In 1436 the Mecklenburg line resumed the entire heritage. Meanwhile in 1292 it was ruled by Stargard and 1358 the county Hardly acquired . The German King Charles IV. Made 1348 the Dukes and Princes of Mecklenburg.
Mecklenburg became Lutheran during the Protestant Reformation, and in the 16th and early 17th centuries the region was repeatedly divided into two divided into duchies. Mecklenburg-Schwerin (West) and Mecklenburg-Güstrow (east). During the Thirty Years' War , Albrecht von Wallenstein ousted the dukes in 1627-1631, which had sided Christian IV by Denmark , but the dukes were restored by the Swedes. By the Peace of Westphalia (1648) acquired Sweden Wismar and its surroundings, which it held until 1803.
With the extinction of the Güstrow line in 1695, Mecklenburg was reunited, but then permanently by the Treaty of Hamburg (1701). Meanwhile most of the territory went to Mecklenburg-Schwerin Mecklenburg-Strelitz included the Principality of Ratzeburg to the northwest and the Lordship of Stargard to the southeast. In 1808 both duchies joined the founded by Napoleon I Rheinbund an ; The Congress of Vienna 1814 to 1815 recognized them as Grand Duchies and members of the German Confederation . You were in Seven Week War (1866) on the Prussia's side and joined 1867 the North German Confederation and 1871 the German rich at. After the World War I After the Weimar Constitution, the grand ducal regimes were abolished in favor of elected governments. The Nazi government merged the two states into one in 1934 Country Mecklenburg, which follows the World War II briefly (1949–52) with some territorial adjustments Country the German Democratic Republic (Eastern Germany) before it entered the Districts Rostock was dissolved; Schwerin and Neubrandenburg . Before the union of east and West Germany in 1990, the former Country restored from these districts as Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.