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16-563: Pyritz may refer to: Pyritz, German name of Pyrzyce , a town in Pomerania, northwestern Poland Anja Pyritz (born 1970), German rower Dana Pyritz (born 1970), German rower Lutz Pyritz (1950–2018), German jockey and horse trainer Tim Pyritz (born 1993), German diver Pyritzans , also known as Prissani, a medieval tribe in Pomerania Treaty of Pyritz , 1493 between

32-552: A dukedom were of such gravity and complexity that they resulted in the postponement of the burial of Bogislaw's body for almost 20 years. The succession to his lands was mainly between George William, Elector of Brandenburg , the heir under a pact between the two families in 1464, and his brother-in-law Gustavus Adolphus , King of Sweden , who had occupied much of Pomerania on entering the Thirty Years' War in 1629. According to Bogislaw' last will , in case of no succession with

48-463: A stroke which left him partially paralyzed. In 1634 he abdicated without clear succession resulting in a constitutional power struggle between his relatives and the governing council. With the constitutional issues unresolved, no recognized male issue, and virtually all of Pomerania occupied by Swedish and imperial troops, Bogislaw died in 1637. The conflicts and issues surrounding the personal and constitutional succession and general future of Pomerania as

64-451: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pyrzyce An anonymous medieval document of about 850, called Bavarian Geographer , mentions the tribe of Prissani having 70 strongholds ( Prissani civitates LXX ). The territory became part of the emerging Polish state under Mieszko I around 967. The settlement was first mentioned in 1124 by bishop Otto von Bamberg , who baptized

80-609: Is home for the second oldest Geothermal Plant in Poland. The power plant is generating clean geothermal energy thanks to use of Lower Jurassic reservoirs of thermal waters (61 degree Celsius) at approx. 1600 m b.s.l. Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania Bogislaw XIV (31 March 1580 – 10 March 1637) was the last Duke of Pomerania . He was also the Lutheran administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Cammin . Bogislaw

96-799: The Dukes of Pomerania recognized the right of succession of the House of Brandenburg . A large fire destroyed almost the whole town in 1496. Pyritz was the first town in Pomerania to implement the Lutheran Reformation in 1524. During the Thirty Years' War , the town was occupied by the Holy Roman Empire since 1628, then by Sweden from 1630, by the Holy Roman Empire again in 1635, and by Sweden again in 1636. It

112-463: The Thirty Years' War , Bogislaw in the Capitulation of Franzburg was forced to allow imperial troops commanded by Albrecht von Wallenstein to use his territories as a base in 1627. In turn, his lands became embroiled in the war, with all its disastrous consequences. In the 1630s, many of the local nobility tried to lessen his power, and this problem occupied Bogislaw in the early 1630s, causing

128-538: The House of Pomerania and the House of Hohenzollern Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pyritz . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pyritz&oldid=1245902597 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

144-464: The House of Pomerania, his lands were to pass to Sweden , not to Brandenburg-Prussia . Both, Sweden and Brandenburg, exploited not only their position as superior military and occupying powers but also the succession conflicts within the House of Pomerania itself. Therefore, when the allocation of territory was decided at the Peace of Westphalia which concluded the war in 1648, Pomerania was carved up and

160-425: The death of his elder brother Francis . Early in 1625 he became ruler of all West Pomerania on the death of the last Duke of Wolgast , Philipp Julius , and on 19 February he was married to Elisabeth (24 September 1580 – 21 December 1653), fifth daughter of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg , by his first wife, Elisabeth of Brunswick-Grubenhagen . Despite his attempts to avoid becoming embroiled in

176-474: The first Pomeranians here , a task entrusted to him by Polish monarch Bolesław III Wrymouth . It was one of the first towns of Western Pomerania to convert to Christianity. In 1140, a church was founded, and a castle was first mentioned. Later on, as a result of the fragmentation of Poland, it was part of the Duchy of Pomerania . In 1248, a ducal mint of Barnim I was mentioned for the first time. A new church

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192-601: The old town. Following the post-war boundary changes , Pyrzyce became again part of Poland; the local population was expelled in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement and replaced by Poles , including those displaced from former eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union . From 1975 to 1998 Pyrzyce was administratively located in the Szczecin Voivodeship . Since 1994 the town of Pyrzyce

208-592: The town became the seat of the district administration (Kreis Pyritz) and was connected to the railway system in 1882. As part of Prussia the town was located in unified Germany of 1871. At the end of World War II the Soviet Red Army conquered the town during the Pomeranian Offensive . Bombardment of Pyritz by Soviet artillery began on February 1, 1945, and achieved maximum intensity on February 27, when attacks by heavy artillery destroyed

224-517: Was born in Barth as a member of the House of Griffin . He was the third son of Duke Bogislaw XIII by his first wife Clara of Brunswick-Lüneburg . On the death of his father in 1606, he and his younger brother George II became joint dukes of Rügenwalde (Darłowo). George II died in 1617, and Bogislaw became sole ruler. In 1620 his domain was incorporated into the Duchy of Stettin, which he inherited on

240-554: Was built in 1250, an Augustinian cloister in 1256 and a monastery of the Franciscan order in 1281. In 1263 the town received Magdeburg town rights from Duke Barnim I. In 1320 Dukes Otto I and Barnim III exempted the burghers from customs duties throughout their duchy, in 1322 they granted the town the village of Czarnowo , and in 1326 they confirmed the old right to mint coins. By the Contract of Pyritz of March 26, 1493

256-601: Was plundered repeatedly both by Imperial and Swedish troops, and in 1634, it was largely destroyed by a conflagration. After the death of the last Pomeranian Duke in 1637, the Swedes took over the town. In 1653 the town became part of the Brandenburg-Prussian province of Pomerania following the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and the Treaty of Stettin (1653) , along within the rest of Farther Pomerania . In 1818,

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