Lauenburg and Butow Land (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Lauenburg and Butow Land formed a historical region in Eastern Pomerania. Composed of two smaller regions centered around the towns of Butow and Lauenburg in Pommern, it was on the western periphery of Pomerelia. Part of the Pomerelian duchies in the High Middle Ages it turned into a terra region of the Polish Crown until 1772, which was administered mostly by the Teutonic Knights, the Pomeranian dukes and Brandenburg-Prussia. Until 1846 it was an administrative division of West Prussia and the Province of Pomerania as Lauenburg-Butowscher Kreis before it was partitioned into Kreis Lauenburg and Kreis Butow.