Schwedt

Schwedt is a town in northeastern Brandenburg, Germany. With the authentic popularity of a Grobe kreisangehorige Stadt, it's miles the largest metropolis of the Uckermark district, located close to the Oder River near the border with Poland. After the Migration Period, the region were settled by way of Polabian Slavs. From 937 onwards the lands of the Slavic Ukrani tribes inside the west have been subued by the Saxon forces of Margrave Gero and incorporated into his full-size Marca Geronis, while the lands east of the Oder have been held by using Pomeranian tribes underneath pressure by means of the Polish forces of Duke Mieszko I.

The Saxon Northern March became misplaced inside the Great Slav Rising of 983, and not before 1147 the Saxon count number Albert the Bear once more invaded the lands at the Oder river, which remained disputed between the newly established Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Pomeranian dukes. The agreement of Schwedt was first cited in a 1265 deed. In the route of the Brandenburg–Pomeranian battle, the Brandenburg margrave Louis II the Roman ceded it to Duke Barnim III of Pomerania in 1354. It became again besieged through the first Hohenzollern margrave Frederick I in 1434, but to no avail. In 1481 the Thuringian counts of Hohnstein obtained the estates; they granted town privileges to Schwedt in addition to to neighbouring Vierraden and delivered the Protestant Reformation.