Territory under Holstein sovereignty but administered by citizens or institutions of Lūbeck

Approximately two dozen villages scattered throughout eastern Holstein (in Danish Germany) were owned (or partially owned) and administered by citizens of or institutions based in Lūbeck who were not subject to the duke/king. I use the simplified country name of “Holstein-Lūbeck” for those villages, but that should not be understood to imply that the Imperial City of Lūbeck itself (or, for that matter the Bishopric of Lūbeck) was involved in the administration thereof. “Lūbeck”, in this instance, simply refers to the loyalty of the entities doing the administering.

 

I have created five subdivisions. Prior to 1804, three are based on the common ownership of the villages—one each for the St. Johanniskloster (Heringsdorf), the Heiligen Geist Hospital (Scharbeutz) and the St. Clemenskaland (Merkendorf). Other villages in the modern Kreise of Ostholstein and Plön have been grouped into a fourth subdivision (Röbel). The villages in the modern Kreis Stormarn constitute the fifth subdivision (Westerau).

 

After 1804, the evidence indicates that the villages were organized geographically. The regroupings were formal, but the names thereof are not—I have simply retained the names of the pre-1804 Gerichte, with the following exceptions:

• Gericht Schwochel was split off from Gericht Heringsdorf, and
• Gericht Röbel, which by 1804 had been reduced to the village of Röbel itself, was disbanded and Röbel was assigned to Gericht Scharbeutz.