Another intuition of the moment (settlement)
The landscape of the Prignitz were formed in the Pleistocene. The soft structures can only be understood from the ice ages. Meltwater formed today's river and stream courses. Huge moraines brought the sand. While during the ice age the repeated advances of the Scandinavian inland ice shaped the landscape of the Prignitz, in the course of the post-glacial period man increasingly became the determining geological factor.
The settlement
The oldest clear traces of hunter-gatherers date
back to the Middle Stone Age, which began here
around 8000 BC. But there are also finds from
the Neolithic period (3000 to 1800 BC) indicate
prehistoric settlement of two pre-Germanic
tribes. Numerous finds from the Bronze and Iron
Ages testify to an increasingly dense
settlement. Germanic tribes settled until the
Germanic migration (4th-6th century). From the
4th/5th century A.D. Slavs settled along the
Elbe and Havel rivers, especially the small
tribe of the Brizans.
German rulers
tried to conquer the Slavic territory east of
the Elbe for about 400 years. Bishoprics were
founded for the Christianization of the Slavs.
The area was finally conquered only with a
crusade against the Slavs in 1147.
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