Margraviate of Landsberg

The Mark Landsberg, also Margraviate of Landsberg, went in the 13th century by inheritance from the westernmost part of the Mark Lausitz, which was a part of the Saxon Ostmark to 965, out. It applies in addition to the Margraviate of Meissen as the home country of Wettin. It included a not precisely delineated area between the lower Saale and Elbe. The center was the far superior mountain which earlier was a Slavic castle. On this mountain the name of the castle and the town of Landsberg goes back in today Saalekreis.

After the division of the Wettin countries by Conrad, Margrave of Meissen and Lusatia, in 1156, began his son Dietrich, Margrave of Lausitz, upon whom this Part, in 1170 with the construction of the castle. This was completed in 1174, and Dietrich also bore the title of " Marquis of Landsberg ," but implies no independent polity.

Only the Meissen and Lusatia Margrave Heinrich the Illustrious created for his younger son Dietrich in 1261, against existing imperial law, an independent realm territory Landsberg (Mark Landsberg), which also included the conveyed from this city of Leipzig. After the death of his son Frederick the country fell to degenerate to Albrecht. In 1291 the Mark Landsberg was sold to the Brandenburg Ascanians, but came back in 1347 to the House of Wettin.

The Mark Landsberg coats of arms were Landsberger piles. Two blue piles on golden ( yellow ) were ground since the end of the 12th century the family crest of the Wettin Margrave and dive inter alia, in the city arms of Leipzig, Chemnitz and Dresden ( here black tinged ) on.