Astfala
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Ostfalen around the year 1000
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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 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
- Ekbert vom Ambergau (also Ekbert the one-eyed ; around 932 – April 994), Graf im Hastfalagau ( Billunger )
- Tammo (also Thankmar ; around 960-1037), count in Astfala and Hessengau , brother of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim
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 ).