Eutin

The Slavic Abodrites settled eastern Holstein since the 7th/8th century A.D. and built a castle on an island in the "Grossen Eutiner See" (Great Eutin Lake). After the Wendish Crusade, in the course of the German settlement in the East, German and Dutch settlers migrated since the 12th century. In 1156 Eutin became a residence of the (prince) bishops of Lübeck. It received the city rights in 1257.

In and around Eutin 29 witch trials could be identified between 1575 and 1670. After the torture, not all persons may have ended on a pyre, but this large marketplace was probably the place where the execution was done.