page_title: Lauenburg and Bütow Land
section_title: Poland and Brandenburg-Prussia
hierarchical_section_title: Lauenburg and Bütow Land / History / Poland and Brandenburg-Prussia
caption_attribution_description: English: An attractive example of John Cary’s 1801 map of Upper Saxony, Germany. Covers from the Baltic Sea south to Franconia, Bavaria, Bohemia and Moravia. Extends eastward as far as Poland. Includes the Duchy of Silesia, the Duchy of Lusatia, Prussian Pomerania, Electoral Mark of Brandenburg, and the Margraviate of Meissen. Notes the cities of Berlin, Prague, Dresden, and Leipzig among many others. Highly detailed with color coding according to region. Shows forests, cities, palaces, forts, roads and rivers. All in all, one of the most interesting and attractive atlas maps of Upper Saxony to appear in first years of the 19th century. Prepared in 1801 by John Cary for issue in his magnificent 1808 New Universal Atlas .
context_page_description: Lauenburg and Bütow Land formed a historical region in eastern Pomerania. Composed of two districts centered on the towns of Lauenburg and Bütow, it was on the western periphery of Pomerelia. The land is today part of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship.
context_section_description: After the childless death of the last Griffin duke, Bogislaw XIV in 1637, the land again became a terra (land, ziemia) of the Polish Crown and in 1641 became part of the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Whereas the Reformation had been enforced by the Pomeranian dukes, the Poles took action to regain the area for the Catholic Church. After the 1657 Treaty of Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) that amended the previous Treaty of Wehlau it was granted as a fief to the Hohenzollern dynasty of Brandenburg-Prussia in return for her help against Sweden in the Swedish-Polish War under the same favourable conditions the Griffins had enjoyed before. The Hohenzollern had also acquired the adjacent lands of Farther Pomerania upon the extinction of the line and since 1618 held the Duchy of Prussia in personal union.
  Lauenburg-Bütow was officially a Polish fiefdom until the First Partition of Poland in 1772. King Frederick II of Prussia had incorporated the territory the year before and the subsequent Treaty of Warsaw in 1773 made the former conditions obsolete. From 1772 on the area was still attached to the Pomerelian lands of part of West Prussia, but in 1777 Lauenburg and Bütow were finally integrated in the Prussian province of Farther Pomerania, and after the Napoleonic Wars from 1815 onwards part of the larger Province of Pomerania. In 1846 it was partitioned into the two Landkreise Lauenburg and Bütow, both parts of the Regierungsbezirk of Köslin.
  While much of the Pomerelian lands annexed by Prussia returned to the Second Polish Republic after World War I according to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, Lauenburg and Bütow remained with the Prussian province of Pomerania until 1945. According to the Potsdam Agreement after World War II the region was made part of Poland.
caption: Lordships of Lauenburg and Bütow (identified as Buto) on a map of Farther Pomerania  in the  18th century (on the r. h. s., western border marked in red)
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