Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tun daga tsakiyar karni na 13, yankin ya kasance wani ɓangare na Ascanian Duchy na Saxe-Wittenberg kuma, daga 1356, na masu zaɓe na Saxon. Kasancewa a kan iyakarta ta arewa maso gabas, ya kasance wurin rikice-rikice da yawa tare da Brandenburg Knights da sojojin Magdeburg Archbishops. Birnin ya sake shan wahala daga Hussite
hare-haren a 1429, sun yi wa sojojin Imperial hari bayan shan kashi na Saxon a 1547 Battle of Mühlberg, kuma an lalata shi a cikin Yakin Shekaru talatin.