Astfala

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Astfala
Ostfalen around the year 1000
Astfala
Ostfalen around the year 1000
The approximate location of Astfala ("Hastfala")

Astfala was a Saxon district and part of the Saxon province of Ostfalen . Elsewhere, the Gau is also called Hastfala , Hastfalagau , Astfalia , Ostfala , Ostphalah or Ostfalengau . Astfala was the most densely populated and largest Gau in East Westphalia. Later he was part of the Hildesheim Monastery .

Geographical location

Astfala on a map of the district division of the Hildesheim Monastery around the year 1000

Astfala was in what is now Lower Saxony in the vicinity of the city of Hildesheim . The extensive Gau included the area around Hildesheim, except for the areas around Ruthe and Koldingen (Pattensen). It extended into the Hannoversche and into the Peine area . It was west of Braunschweig , between the rivers Leine and Fuhse . In the east it bordered on the Liergau , which lay between the Oker and the Fuhse, in the southeast on the Salzgau and in the north on the Gaugrafschaft Flutwidde .

Counts in Ostfalengau

See also

literature

  • Franz Anton Blum: History of the Principality of Hildesheim . tape 1 . Heinrich Georg Albrecht, Wolfenbüttel 1805, p. 59; 72 ff . ( Digitized version ).

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