Bursibant

Bursibant was a district around Rheine in the Christian Middle Ages .

Geographical location

Bursibant expanded northwest of the Ems and included the following localities: Rheine , Emsdetten , Neuenkirchen , Ohne , Schüttorf , Bentheim , Gildehaus , Nordhorn , Brandlecht , Frenswegen , Wietmarschen , Schepsdorf , Emsbüren , Elbergen , Salzbergen , Dreierwalde , Mesum , Elte and Saerbeck .

On the Holy Sea , Bursibant bordered the Gaue Venki and Threcwiti , in the south on the Dreingau and in the west on the Skopingau .

Small and large Brukterer

According to Hermann Middendorf's interpretation of a Ptolemy post, the so-called Small Brukterer lived in the area before the border wars with the Romans , whose tribal relatives, the so-called Large Brukterer , were settled further east, i.e. north of the Teutoburg Forest. The Roman Rhine Army regions retaliated for their devastating defeat there through the constant invasions of the 1st millennium AD, so that the Great Brukterians were finally forced to migrate south into the Tenkeros area.

Surname

"Bursi" should mean "swampy" and "Bant" means "peripheral area".

literature

• Hermann Middendorf: About the residences of the Brukterer. In: Ninth annual report of the Royal High School in Coesfeld. Coesfeld, 1837 digitized
• Christof Spannhoff: in pago qui dicitur Bursibant . Comments on an early medieval landscape name in northern Westphalia, in: Rheine - yesterday - today - tomorrow 70 (2013), pp. 74–87.