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Landmeister of Prussia was a high office in the Teutonic Order. The Landmeister administered the land of Prussia of the Teutonic Order. It was in existence as a separate office from 1230 to 1309, later being held in union with the office of Grand Master until 1525.




History


The office was created at the same time as the beginning of the conquest and the forcible Christianization of the Prussians in the summer of 1230. The first Landmeister, Hermann von Balk, received the Kulmer Land from the Duke Konrad I of Masovia as the nucleus of the Teutonic Orders in Prussia and started advancing north along the Vistula river. His successors completed the conquest of the country under considerable setbacks and established the protection of the districts and the defeat of rebellious Prussians in fortified houses, the forerunners of the later brick fortresses known as Ordensburgs. The last Landmeister of Prussia residing in Elbing was Heinrich von Plötzke. In 1309, after the death of Plötzke, the office became held in union with that of the Grand Master (held by Siegfried von Feuchtwangen residing in Marburg Castle at the time) and continued as such until 1525.




List


The Landmeisters of Prussia were:

Hermann Balk, 1230–1239
Heinrich von Wida, 1239–1244
Poppo von Osterna, 1244–1246
Dietrich von Grüningen, 1246–1249
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Burkhard von Hornhausen, 1257–1259
Hartmund von Grumbach, 1259–1261
Helmerich von Rechenberg, 1262–1263
Ludwig von Baldersheim, 1263–1269
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Dietrich von Gattersleben, 1271–1273
Konrad von Thierberg the Elder, 1273–1279
Konrad von Feuchtwangen, 1279–1280
Mangold von Sternberg, 1280–1283
Konrad von Thierberg the Younger, 1284–1288
Meinhard von Querfurt, 1288–1299
Konrad von Babenberg, 1299
Ludwig von Schippen, 1299–1300
Helwig von Goldbach, 1300–1302
Konrad Sack, 1302–1306
Siegfried von Schwarzburg, 1306
Heinrich von Plötzke, 1307–1309
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Friedrich von Wildenberg, 1317–1324




See also


Landmeister in Livland




References






Further reading


Hirsch, Theodor; Toeppen, Max; Strehlke, Ernst (1861–1874). Scriptores rerum Prussicarum : die Geschichtsquellen der preußischen Vorzeit bis zum Untergange der Ordensherrschaft [Scriptores rerum Prussicarum : the historical sources of Prussian prehistory up to the fall of the order's rule] (in German). Vol. 1–5. Leipzig: S. Hirzel Verlag.
Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens [Sources and studies on the history of the Teutonic Order]
92 volume series
ISSN 0481-3626
Deutscher Orden: Brüder und Schwestern vom Deutschen Haus St. Mariens in Jerusalem - Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens
Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens | Verlagsgruppe arts + science weimar
Boockmann, Hartmut (1994). Der Deutsche Orden : zwölf Kapitel aus seiner Geschichte [The Teutonic Order : twelve chapters from its history] (in German). München: Beck. ISBN 9783406381744.
Das Ordensbuch: die Regeln und Statuten des Ordens der Brüder und Schwestern vom Deutschen Haus Sankt Mariens in Jerusalem [The order book: the rules and statutes of the Order of Brothers and Sisters of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem] (in German). Wien: Verlag des Deutschen Ordens. 2001. ISBN 9788870733136.
Maschke, Erich (1942). Der deutsche Ordensstaat : Gestalten seiner groβen Meister [The state of the Teutonic Order : profiles of its great masters] (in German). Hamburg: Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt. OCLC 492127526.
Jürgen Sarnowsky
Sarnowsky, Jürgen (2007). Der Deutsche Orden [The Teutonic Order] (in German). München: Beck. ISBN 9783406536281.
Hermann Schreiber
Schreiber, Hermann (2003). Preussen und Baltikum unter den Kreuzrittern : die Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens [Prussia and the Baltic under the Crusaders : the history of the Teutonic Order] (in German). Gernsbach: Casimir Katz. ISBN 9783925825835. OCLC 51984600.
Ziegler, Uwe (2003). Kreuz und Schwert : die Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens [Cross and sword : the history of the Teutonic Order] (in German). Köln: Böhlau. ISBN 9783412134020.




External links


Landmeister von Preußen at the Wayback Machine (archived 2021-11-28) (in German)

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• Landmeister of Prussia
• Teutonic Order
• Dietrich von Grüningen
• Burkhard von Hornhausen
• Landmeister in Livland
• Eberhard von Sayn
• Heinrich Stange
• Heinrich von Plötzke
• Poppo von Osterna
• Freytag-Loringhoven