Struga, Szczecin Explained

Struga (German: Buchholz, Hohenkrug, Königsweg and Henningsholm) is a part of the Szczecin City, Poland situated on the right bank of Oder river, east of the Szczecin Old Town, and south-east of Szczecin-Dąbie.

History

Hohenkrug near Stettin was the first village in the Duchy of Pomerania clearly recorded as German (villa teutonicorum) in 1173, at the beginning of the medieval German settlement of Pomerania (Ostsiedlung).[1]

Notes and References

  1. Jan Maria Piskorski, Slawen und Deutsche in Pommern im Mittelalter, in Klaus Herbers, Nikolas Jaspert, Grenzräume und Grenzüberschreitungen im Vergleich: der Osten und der Westen des mittelalterlichen Lateineuropa, Akademie Verlag, 2007, p.85,

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