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{{short description|Town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany}}
{{Infobox German location
|type = Stadt
|image_coa = Wappen_Franzburg.PNG
|image_photo = Franzburg Markt Ortsmitte.jpg
|image_caption = Town center
|coordinates = {{coord|54|10|N|12|52|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan =Franzburg_in_VR.svg
|plantext =
|state = Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
|district = Vorpommern-Rügen
|Amt = Franzburg-Richtenberg
|elevation = 20
|area = 15.19
|postal_code = 18461
|area_code = 038322
|licence = NVP
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 13 0 73 024
|website = [https://www.amt-franzburg-richtenberg.de/franzburg.html www.amt-franzburg-richtenberg.de]
|mayor = Johannes Rudolph
|party =
}}

'''Franzburg''' ({{IPA|de|ˈfʁantsbʊʁk}}) is a [[municipality]] in the [[Vorpommern-Rügen]] district of [[Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]], [[Germany]]. It is situated 20 km southwest of [[Stralsund]]. Before the [[Protestant Reformation]], later Franzburg was the site of '''Neuenkamp Abbey'''.

==Neuenkamp Abbey==
[[File:Franzburg Kirche 2.jpg|thumb|left|150px|''Schloßkirche'' ("palace's church", only remnant of the Neuenkamp Abbey]]

In the course of the medieval [[conversion of Pomerania]] and German [[Ostsiedlung]], prince [[Wizlaw I]] granted the central parts of the woods covering the mainland section of his [[Principality of Rügen]], then [[Denmark|Danish]], to [[Cistercian]] monks from [[Camp Abbey]] in [[Lower Saxony]] who build Neuenkamp Abbey on 8 November 1231. The monks erected a church that, with a length of 80 meters, a width of 15 meters, and an arch height of 25 meters, was then the largest church in all [[Pomerania]]. The possessions of the abbey rapidly increased, 50 years after its foundation the abbey's territory reached the coast. The woods were cleared, and numerous villages of the ''[[Hagenhufendorf]]'' type were set up and populated with German settlers. In 1325, the last prince of Rügen died without an issue, and Neuenkamp with the rest of the principality was inherited by the [[Duchy of Pomerania|dukes of Pomerania]]. The abbey prospered until it was [[secularisation|secularized]] in 1535, following the [[Protestant Reformation]] and the adoption of [[Lutheranism]] by the Pomeranian nobility in 1534.<ref name=Drescher>Fr. Drescher, ''Der Kreis Franzburg-Barth'', Kreisausschuß des Kreises Franzburg-Barth, Carl Klock, Barth 1932/33, edited reprint: G. Thomas, Stralsund, 1992. pp.33-35</ref>

[[File:Lubinus Franzburg.png|thumb|left|150px|Franzburg on [[Eilhard Lubinus]]'s map of [[Pomerania]], 1618]]

Following the secularization, the new owner, duke [[Bogislaw XIII]], rebuilt the abbey as his ducal palace, and turned the former abbey's yards into a town. He modeled the new town after the [[Republic of Venice]], envisioning a town holding a population of nobles, craftsmen, merchants and artists, that was to compete with neighboring [[Hanseatic League|Hanseatic]] [[Stralsund]]. As a consequence of these ambitions, he granted the new town no surrounding land, for he did not like the idea of inhabitants doing in agriculture. Rather, he concentrated weavers in the town and had a mint built. He named the town after his father-in-law, [[Francis of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]. The abbey's church was torn down in 1561, only the southernmost extremity was left and still stands today. When Bogislaw however inherited [[Stettin]] in 1603, he lost interest in his Franzburg ambitions, and the town never grew to the envisioned size and status.<ref name=Drescher/>

The beginning of the [[Thirty Years' War]] in the [[Duchy of Pomerania]] was marked by the [[Capitulation of Franzburg]], which provided for the occupation of the duchy by [[Albrecht von Wallenstein]]'s mercenary army. In the following, the town was devastated completely.<ref name=mvwebFB>{{cite web|url=http://www.mecklenburg-vorpommern.eu/cms2/Landesportal_prod/Landesportal/content/de/Urlaub_und_Freizeit/Urlaubsideen/Staedte/Franzburg/index.jsp|title=Franzburg|publisher=State Chancellory of [[Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]]|editor1-first=Andreas|editor1-last=Timm|editor2-first=Rüdiger|editor2-last=Buck|language=de|access-date=2009-08-01|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101202835/http://www.mecklenburg-vorpommern.eu/cms2/Landesportal_prod/Landesportal/content/de/Urlaub_und_Freizeit/Urlaubsideen/Staedte/Franzburg/index.jsp|archive-date=2009-01-01}}</ref> Franzburg lost its weaver industry and the mint.<ref name=Drescher/> Only a century later, in 1728, Franzburg was resettled.<ref name=mvwebFB/>

However, it remained the seat of administration of the surrounding [[Districts of Germany|Kreis]] Franzburg(-Barth), basically the mainland part of the former principality of Rügen, until the seat was moved to [[Barth, Germany|Barth]] after [[World War I]].<ref name=Drescher/>

Today, Franzburg is a [[Municipalities of Germany|municipality]] in Kreis [[Vorpommern-Rügen]].

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Franzburg}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.mecklenburg-vorpommern.eu/cms2/Landesportal_prod/Landesportal/content/de/Urlaub_und_Freizeit/Urlaubsideen/Staedte/Franzburg/index.jsp|title=Franzburg|publisher=State Chancellory of [[Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]]|editor1-first=Andreas|editor1-last=Timm|editor2-first=Rüdiger|editor2-last=Buck|language=de|access-date=2009-08-01|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101202835/http://www.mecklenburg-vorpommern.eu/cms2/Landesportal_prod/Landesportal/content/de/Urlaub_und_Freizeit/Urlaubsideen/Staedte/Franzburg/index.jsp|archive-date=2009-01-01}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.zamek.szczecin.pl/sladami/de/franzburg.asp|title=Franzburg|editor-first=Sandra|editor-last=Klaus|publisher=Szczecin Castle Museum|access-date=2009-08-01|language=de|archive-date=2007-05-27|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070527144639/http://www.zamek.szczecin.pl/sladami/de/franzburg.asp|url-status=dead}}

{{Towns and municipalities in Vorpommern-Rügen (district)}}
{{Pomerania}}

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[[Category:Christian monasteries established in the 1230s]]
[[Category:Monasteries in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania]]
[[Category:Cistercian monasteries in Germany]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1587]]
[[Category:Burial sites of the House of Pomerania]]

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