Prenzlau

Prenzlau is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, the administrative seat of Uckermark District. It is likewise the centre of the historic Uckermark region. Settled due to the fact that Neolithic instances, the Prenzlau area from the seventh century AD become the website online of several gords erected through the Polabian Slavs. In the overdue 12th century, the Dukes of Pomerania had the region colonized via Low German settlers. Prenzlau itself, named after Slavic Premyslaw was first referred to in 1187. It acquired town privileges through Duke Barnim I of Pomerania in 1234.

When Duke Barnim signed the Treaty of Landin with the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg in 1250, Prenzlau turned into already a fortified town with walls and moats, four parish churches and a monastery. Together with Berlin-Cölln, Frankfurt and Stendal, it ranked amongst the largest cities inside the margraviate. The Prenzlau and the Uckermark place were devastated for the duration of the Thirty Years' War. From the past due seventeenth century onwards French Huguenot refugees settled here and an economic healing started out. Also a garrison metropolis, Prenzlau changed into again ravaged by passing troops throughout the Seven Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars. In the mid 19th century, several residents emigrated to Australia, where they founded the city of Prenzlau, Queensland west of Brisbane.