Ratzeburg





Place in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany































































Ratzeburg

Ratzeburg Cathedral
Ratzeburg Cathedral


Coat of arms of Ratzeburg
Coat of arms

Location of Ratzeburg within Lauenburg district



Hamburg
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Lower Saxony
Segeberg
Stormarn
Lübeck
Lübeck
Albsfelde
Alt Mölln
Aumühle
Bäk
Bälau
Basedow
Basthorst
Behlendorf
Berkenthin
Besenthal
Bliestorf
Bliestorf
Börnsen
Borstorf
Breitenfelde
Bröthen
Brunsmark
Brunstorf
Buchholz
Buchhorst
Büchen
Dahmker
Dalldorf
Dassendorf
Düchelsdorf
Duvensee
Einhaus
Elmenhorst
Escheburg
Fitzen
Fredeburg
Fuhlenhagen
Geesthacht
Giesensdorf
Göldenitz
Göttin
Grabau
Grambek
Grinau
Groß Boden
Groß Disnack
Groß Disnack
Groß Grönau
Groß Pampau
Groß Sarau
Groß Schenkenberg
Grove
Gudow
Gülzow
Güster
Hamfelde
Hamwarde
Harmsdorf
Havekost
Hohenhorn
Hollenbek
Hornbek
Horst
Juliusburg
Kankelau
Kasseburg
Kastorf
Kittlitz
Klein Pampau
Klein Zecher
Klempau
Klinkrade
Koberg
Köthel
Kollow
Kröppelshagen-Fahrendorf
Krüzen
Krukow
Krummesse
Kuddewörde
Kühsen
Kulpin
Labenz
Labenz
Langenlehsten
Langenlehsten
Lankau
Lanze
Lauenburg/Elbe
Lehmrade
Linau
Lüchow
Lütau
Mechow
Möhnsen
Mölln
Mühlenrade
Müssen
Mustin
Niendorf bei Berkenthin
Niendorf an der Stecknitz
Nusse
Panten
Pogeez
Poggensee
Ratzeburg
Ritzerau
Römnitz
Rondeshagen
Roseburg
Sachsenwald
Sahms
Salem
Sandesneben
Schiphorst
Schmilau
Schnakenbek
Schönberg
Schretstaken
Schürensöhlen
Schulendorf
Schwarzenbek
Seedorf
Siebenbäumen
Siebeneichen
Sirksfelde
Sierksrade
Steinhorst
Sterley
Stubben
Talkau
Tramm
Walksfelde
Wangelau
Wentorf, Sandesneben
Wentorf bei Hamburg
Wiershop
Witzeeze
Wohltorf
Woltersdorf
Worth
Ziethen
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Ratzeburg is located in Germany

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Ratzeburg is located in Schleswig-Holstein

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Coordinates: 53°42′N 10°45′E / 53.700°N 10.750°E / 53.700; 10.750Coordinates: 53°42′N 10°45′E / 53.700°N 10.750°E / 53.700; 10.750
Country Germany
State Schleswig-Holstein
District Lauenburg
Government

 • Mayor
Rainer Voß
Area

 • Total 30.29 km2 (11.70 sq mi)
Elevation

36 m (118 ft)
Population
(2016-12-31)[1]

 • Total 14,528
 • Density 480/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes
23909
Dialling codes 04541
Vehicle registration RZ
Website www.ratzeburg.de

Ratzeburg (German pronunciation: [ˈʁatsəbʊɐ̯k]) is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is surrounded by four lakes—the resulting isthmuses between the lakes form the access lanes to the town. Ratzeburg is the capital of the Kreis (district) of Lauenburg.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Notable residents


  • 3 International relations


  • 4 Sources and references


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





History




Ratzeburg, ca. 1590.


The town was founded in the 11th century as Racisburg. The name is traditionally derived from the local Wendish ruler, Prince Ratibor of the Polabians, who was nicknamed Ratse. In the year 1044 Christian missionaries under the leadership of the monk Ansverus came into the region and built a monastery. It was destroyed in a pagan rebellion in 1066; the monks were stoned to death. Today monuments to the missionaries in two of the town's churches commemorate these events. Ansverus was canonised in the 12th century and his relics were entombed in the Ratzeburg cathedral.


Henry the Lion became the ruler of the town in 1143 and established a bishopric in 1154. He was also responsible for the construction of the late Romanesque Cathedral (Dom), built in typical north German 'red-brick' style. Henry also prompted the construction of the similar-looking Lübeck Cathedral and Brunswick Collegiate Church with his remains interred in the latter.


Since 1180 part of Ratzeburg diocesan area formed a Prince Bishopric, whose ruler was sovereign and as such had a vote at the Imperial Diet. The Prince-Bishopric of Ratzeburg was the last state in Northern Germany remaining Catholic. After the 1550 death of its ruler Prince-Bishop Georg von Blumenthal, who feuded with Thomas Aderpul, the bishopric converted to Lutheranism in 1554.


Though the town of Ratzeburg was part of the Ratzeburg diocese, the town itself was not within the territory of the Prince-Bishopric of Ratzeburg, but formed a part of the old Duchy of Saxony and became part of its dynastic partition of Saxe-Lauenburg around 1296, remaining with this duchy under altering dynasties until 1876. The cathedral quarter again formed an immunity district (Domfreiheit; cf. also Liberty) to the prince-bishopric, secularised as a principality in 1648. In 1619 Saxe-Lauenburg's capital was moved from Lauenburg upon Elbe to Ratzeburg and remained there since. The town was almost completely destroyed in 1693, when Christian V of Denmark reduced Ratzeburg to rubble by bombardment in his unsuccessful attempt to push through his succession to the dukedom against the prevailing House of Hanover. After this event Ratzeburg was rebuilt in baroque style. The castle, however, was never be reconstructed or built anew.


Ratzeburg briefly was part of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars, afterwards the Duchy of (Saxe-)Lauenburg was awarded in personal union to the Danish crown in the Congress of Vienna. After the Danish crown lost Lauenburg in the Second Schleswig War (1864), Lauenburg's estates of the realm offered the dukedom to the Prussian Hohenzollern dynasty in personal union, who accepted in 1865. On 1 July 1876 the Duchy of Lauenburg merged into the Kingdom of Prussia's Province of Schleswig-Holstein, forming the still existing district Herzogtum Lauenburg (Duchy of Lauenburg) seated in Ratzeburg. The former cathedral immunity district, at last a part of Mecklenburg, finally became part of the town of Ratzeburg with the 1937 Greater Hamburg Act.


From 1945 to 1989 the Iron Curtain ran just east of the town, putting it on the border with the German Democratic Republic.


Ratzeburg is known for its Olympic champion Ratzeburg Rowing Club, which was responsible for training, among others, the Gold Medalists at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. The grave of Ernst Barlach, perhaps the most notable creative artist to have made his home in Ratzeburg, is located in one of the city's cemeteries.



Notable residents




  • Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg (1675–1733) Regent of Baden-Baden born here;


  • Ernst Barlach (1870–1938), artist;


  • Karl Adam (1912–1976), rowing coach;


  • Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, buried here.


  • Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Rußwurm (1812–1893), pedagogue, ethnologist and historian in Estonia.



International relations



Ratzeburg is twinned with:




  • Belgium Esneux, Belgium


  • Belgium Walcourt, Belgium


  • Denmark Ribe, Denmark


  • France Châtillon, France


  • Poland Sopot, Poland


  • Sweden Strängnäs, Sweden



Sources and references



  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ancient See of Ratzeburg" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


References





  1. ^ "Statistikamt Nord – Bevölkerung der Gemeinden in Schleswig-Holstein 4. Quartal 2016] (XLS-file)". Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein (in German).




External links







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