Eike of Repgow

Eike of Repgow German administrator who compiled a Sachsenspiegel code of law in the 13th century.

Commemoration

There are monuments to Eike of Repgow in Magdeburg, Dessau, Reppichau as well as Halberstadt together with at Falkenstein Castle in the Harz Mountains. There is a square named after him in Berlin, and there is an open-air museum devoted to him and the Sachsenspiegel in his village of Reppichau. There are also schools named after Eike of Repgow in Halberstadt and Magdeburg.

The Eike of Repgow prize, which comes with a statuette of Eike, a certificate, and 5,000 euros, is awarded jointly by awarded annually by the city of Magdeburg and the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg for academic produce of a historical or legal nature.