Dersagau
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The Duchy of Saxony around the year 1000
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The Dersagau was a medieval Saxon ( Westphalian ) district that stretched north-south from Vechta to Hunteburg and west-east from Bersenbrück to the Diepholzer Moorniederung . It lies between the Hasetal and the Hunteniederung and essentially comprises the center and south of today's Vechta district in Lower Saxony . By Carl Heinrich Nieberding and Franz Böcker is Dersagau consistently after Dersaburg , a former castle on the border between Holdorf and Damme , as Gau Dersaburg referred.
Around 790 a mission station for the Gau was founded in the area of today's Damme. However, it is unlikely that the Dammer Urpfarre ever encompassed the entire Dersagau up to the Vechtaer Moor. It is possible that the Visbek monks under Abbot Gerbert Castus penetrated the Dersagau in places and founded the church in Lohne . It is undisputed that the oldest and, for a long time, the only churches in Dersagau stood in Lohne as in Damme.
In 980 Bernhard Gaugraf was on the Ferdinandsburg ( Dinklager Urburg). The Counts of Calvelage emerged from the Dersagau and called themselves Counts of Ravensberg since the middle of the 12th century . They built Vechta Castle on the northern border of the Gau .
The Lerigau lay north of the Dersagau ; from the northwest, the Dersagau was enclosed by the Hasegau .
literature
- Bernhard Engelke: Old dishes in the Gau Dersi. In: Yearbook for the History of the Duchy of Oldenburg , Vol. 18, 1910, pp. 1–103 ( online )
- Theodor Prüllage: The Gau Dersi . In: Yearbook for the History of the Duchy of Oldenburg , Vol. 22, 1914, pp. 1-58 ( online )
Web links
- The historical development of the state of Oldenburg (PDF; 784 kB) on the Lower Saxony education server (PDF file; 766 kB)
- Schweizerhaus Damme: Excursion destinations and sights in Dammer Switzerland: The Gau Dersaburg
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl Heinrich Nieberding: History of the former Niederstift Münster and the adjacent counties of Diepholz, Wildeshausen , CH Fauvel, Vechta 1840, pp. 36–47
- ^ Franz Böcker: History of Damme and the Gau Dersaburg , JP Bachem, Cologne 1887
- ↑ Lower Saxony education server: Damme as a mission station for the Dersagau ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Oldenburg official district . Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ↑ Catholic parish of St. Gertrud Lohne: The historical development of the parish of Lohne ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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