236 Jahnke
Latest in the thirteenth century these areas, primarily the Brandenburgian
cities and Prussia, exported wine, and in Prussia the cultivating of wine was
intensified after the conquest of the Teutonic Order, even if the order did not
introduce the cultivation of wine to that country.185 The acreage in Prussia
covered around 500 ha. alone186 but the dimensions of the other areas is
unknown, as well as the volume of all produced wine. But nevertheless wine
has appeared as a trading good in our sources, even if its importance has been
unknown until now.
Beside the agrarian products, salt was one of the most demanded products
in the Baltic and in the trade with Russia. In the Baltic, the east was saltless and
the west was rich in salt springs.187 In the west the Luneburgian salt springs
had been the most important since 956,188 and the fame of the city of Lübeck
was based on the export of this product. As a result, this city exported in 1368
56,000 tons salt189 with a value of 61,625½ m.l. to the Baltic alone.190 Beside
185 Janusz Tandecki, “Weinbau im mittelalterlichen Preußen.” Beiträge zur Geschichte
Westpreußens 12 (1991), 83–99.
186 J. Tandecki, “Weinbau,” 89–91.
187 Stuart Jenks, “Der hansische Salzhandel im 15. Jahrhundert im Spiegel des Danziger
Pfundzollbuchs von 1409.” In “Vom rechten Maß der Dinge”, Beiträge zur Wirtschafts- und
Sozialgeschichte, Festschrift für Harald Witthöft zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. Rainer S. Elkar,
Cornelius Neutsch, Karl Jürgen Roth and Jürgen H. Schawacht Vol. i, Sachüberlieferung und
Geschichte vol. 17 (St. Katharinen: Scripta-Marcaturae-Verlag, 1996), 257–284, here 258.
188 Harald Witthöft, “Der Export Lüneburger Salzes in den Ostseeraum während der
Hansezeit.” In Die Hanse und der deutsche Osten, ed. Norbert Angermann (Lüneburg:
Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1990), 41–65; Harald Witthöft, “Struktur und Kapazität
der Lüneburger Saline seit dem 12. Jahrhundert,” Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und
Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (1976), 1–117.
189 That are 7.600 metric tons.
190 Rolf Hammel-Kiesow, “Lübeck and the Baltic trade of bulk goods for the North Sea region
1150–1400.” In Cogs, Cargoes and Commerce. Maritime bulk trade in Northern Europe,
1150–1400, ed. Lars Berggren, Nils Hybel and Anette Landen, Papers in Medieval Studies,
Vol. 15 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute, 2002), 53–91, here 83. See also Rolf Hammel-Kiesow,
“Salzzoll und Grabenzoll—Konjunkturen des Salzhandels und des Transithandels auf
dem Stecknitzkanal im 16. Jahrhundert.” In “Vom rechten Maß der Dinge”, Beiträge zur
Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Festschrift für Harald Witthöft zum 65. Geburtstag,
ed. Rainer S. Elkar, Cornelius Neutsch, Karl Jürgen Roth and Jürgen H. Schawacht,
Vol. i (St. Katharinen: Scriptra-Mercaturae-Verlag, 1996), 285–305; Walter Fellmann,
“Die Salzproduktion im Hanseraum.” In Hansische Studien, Heinrich Sproemberg zum
- Geburtstag, ed. Gerhard Heitz and Manfred Unger (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1961),