Conflict over rafting on the Rega information

Conflict over rafting on the Rega was one of the trade disputes in Pomerania between Gryfice, Białoboki monastery and Trzebiatów, lasting from 1317 to 1686.^[1]

The privileges granted to the cities, including the staple rights for Trzebiatów and indirect participation in the Hanseatic League, caused a more than 350-year-long conflict over the free rafting on the Rega river.^[2] The subject of the conflict included Gryfice's revenues from fishing, as well as river and sea trade. In the 14th century, Gryfice had a dispute with the Norbertine monastery, and from the 15th century, armed conflict with Trzebiatów. Gryfice's location on the Rega river and the entrepreneurship of Gryfice fishermen and merchants aroused jealousy from other centers, including Trzebiatów. Despite the positive resolution of the dispute in favor of Gryfice, Trzebiatów undertook actions to hinder the free rafting on the Rega.^[2] The dispute ended in the first half of the 18th century when the riverbed became silted, the water level decreased, and the Rega itself became unnavigable.