Spremberg

Spremberg was a small lordship around a walled town and castle on a Spree island in Lower Lusatia. In 1337 it belonged to a junior branch of the Wettin family of Landsberg.

In 1349 it passed to the counts of Schwarzburg-Wachsenburg, and Emperor Charles IV bought the castle in 1360. His son John of Görlitz pledged Spremberg to Otto of Kittlitz in 1395. After later changes of hands, it passed to Saxon dukes in 1680, Electoral Saxony in 1738 and Prussia in 1815.