Sprevane

The Sprewanen were a Slavic tribe that settled in the area of ​​today's Berlin.

History

The Sprewanen reached in the wake of the Great Migration in the 7th century the Berlin area and built in the sparsely populated area on both sides of the Spree river settlements. They lived on the Barnim and the Ostteltow. But the main settlement and center of power Sprewanen were the main castle and settlement on the future of Köpenick Castle Island, Copnic, at the confluence of the Spree and Dahme. They lived in common together with the remaining remnants of the Germanic population. The Germans finally went on in the Slavic populations.

Besides the Sprewanen there were in the Berlin area, the Hevelli, also called Stodoranen. They settled in the west with the Havel country as a center; its capital was the later city of Brandenburg.

While the well-preserved Hevelli Castle in Spandau was able to answer many open questions of historical and archaeological research, this was not given in Köpenick. Within the scope of intensive excavations after the Second World War it was possible after all to discover the late Slavic fixing the coins formative Sprewanenfürsten Jaxa.

Hevelli and Sprewanen attributable to Wilzen and belonged to no state-forming community. Rather, it existed several small tribes, which were probably ruled by aristocratic residences, which were originally refuges. The Wilzen also included the Ukranen in Uckermark that Redarier and Circipanen in eastern Mecklenburg and the Toll Enser at the Tollense.