Dreingau

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The Dreingau (older form the Dreingau see Gau ) was an area in the tribal duchy of Saxony . Historically, the name appears for the first time in Latin as in pago Dreini , Dragini or Draigni in the descriptions of the Saxon Wars , fought by the Franks against the Westphalians belonging to the Saxon tribe in the 8th century. The name Dreini persisted in Carolingian times. Other historical forms of the name are Dragani , Dreni , Dreen or Reinidi .

Interpretations of the area name

Dreingau means as much as productive land. According to another source, "drein" means something like "dry" (compare English "dry") and could be due to the location on the Münsterländer gravel sand train .

geography

The southern border of the Dreingaus was formed by the Lippe between Lippstadt and Lünen . The Dreingau forms a triangular shape up to the city of Greven in the north . The Brukterergau followed south of the Lippe . In the west, the Dreingau bordered the Gaue Bursibant around Rheine , the Skopingau around Schöppingen and the Stevergau along the Stever around Coesfeld .

history

In 784, as part of the Saxon Wars, an equestrian battle took place in Dreingau, in which Charles the Younger , son of Charlemagne, also took part. From around 800 to 1019 the lords of Werl Münster / Meinhövel were counts in Dreingau and bailiffs of the Liesborn monastery , and from 1122 the counts of Cappenberg were descendants of Herman von Eename Count of Verdun counts of the Dreingaus. The manor in Seliheim, today's Selm , also belonged to the Dreingau .

When Gottfried von Cappenberg donated the entire Cappenberg property to the Premonstratensian order in 1122, the Dreingau came under the administration of the bishops of Münster. The parishes at that time were Münster , Warendorf , Beckum , Ahlen and Werne .

In the first half of the 17th century, troops led by Christian von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel plundered the Dreingau area during the Thirty Years' War .

Usage of the name today

Today the name is rarely used. Only in Drensteinfurt (formerly Steinfurt im Dreingau) and Beelen are references to the old name, e.g. B. on behalf of the Dreingau Zeitung from the Aschendorff group of companies. There is Dreingaustraße in the municipality of Beelen , and a gymnasium in the city of Drensteinfurt is called Dreingau-Halle.

The border stream between Beckum and Lippborg is called Dreinbach.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Johann Gottlieb Heineccius: Opuscula postuma: in quibus historia edictorum edictique perpetui, ipiusque edicti perpetui, ordini et integritati suae restituti partes II, vita Ludouici Germanici Imp. Aliaque continentur. Orphanotropheum, Halae 1744, p. 913 ( Google eBook ).
  2. a b "contra Westfalos in pago, qui dicitur Dreini" (Martina Giese (ed.): MGH SS rer. Germ. Sep. Ed. 72: Die Annales Quedlinburgenses. Hahn, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-5472-2 , P. 431.)
  3. a b c Einhardus; Georg Heinrich Pertz (ed.); Friedrich Kurz: Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum ex monumentis Germaniae historicis separatim editi: Annales regni Francorum inde from a. 741 usque ad a. 829 qui dicuntur Annales / Laurissenses maiores et Einhardi. Hahn, Hanover 1895, pp. 68-69.
  4. a b c d e f g Receipts are missing
  5. ^ Leopold Karl Wilhelm August von Ledebur: General Archive for the History of the Prussian State, Volume 7.
  6. Rudolf Schieffer: The Carolingians . 4th edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-17-019099-7 , pp. 80 .
  7. ^ Germania Sacra, new episode 23: The Dioceses of the Church Province of Cologne, 5.
  8. ^ Organization team “1150 years Selm” (ed.): Festschrift for the 1150 year celebration of the city. Selm 2008 (holdings of the library in the FoKuS Selm).
  9. ^ Homepage of Dreingau Zeitung, accessed on April 25, 2012 ( online )
  10. Homepage of the city of Drensteinfurt, accessed on April 25, 2012 ( online )
  11. Google Maps. Retrieved October 3, 2017 .

literature

  • Bernhard Sökeland: On the roads of the Romans and Franks between the Ems and Lippe . Münster 1825, p. 55ff. ( Google books ).
  • Leopold Karl Wilhelm August von Ledebur: General archive for the history of the Prussian state . Volume 7. Berlin, Posen and Bromberg 1832, pp. 207ff. ( Google books ).
  • Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries: the German territories from the Middle Ages to the present . Munich 1988, p. 148. ( Google books ).