Emsgau
The Emsgau or Emsgo is a historical landscape , located in the south and west of East Frisia . The old Frisian Emsgau is to be distinguished from the Saxon Emsgau , which roughly encompassed today's Emsland and has developed on its own. In the first half of the 12th century, Count Hermann I von Calvelage-Ravensberg acquired the count's rights in the Frisian Emsgau as a feudal bearer under Lothar von Süpplingenburg (Duke of Saxony). These count rights were given to the bishops of Münster in 1253/54 . While the Frisian Emsgau belonged to the Diocese of Münster , the Saxon one was assigned to the Diocese of Osnabrück .
The Emsgau was divided into the Rheider , Moormer , Overledinger , Lengener and Emsigerland . Then there was the Saterland as an exclave. In contrast to the rest of East Frisia, no system of chiefs was established here until tom Brok was established , the emsgo countries remained autonomous. This period ended with the arrival of the Hamburgers , who invaded East Friesland several times in the course of the disputes over the tolerance of the Vitalienbrüder and built Stickhausen Castle in Emsgau around 1345 to protect their trade routes to the west. Another reason why the Emsgau did not come to power is the lack of economic conditions. Agriculture was only possible to a limited extent along the course of the Ems and the Lengenerland was a pure geest .
The Emsigerland around today's city of Emden formed the economic focus of the region. It first appeared in the springs in the early 13th century and stretched from the lower reaches of the Flumm River to the former Sielmönker Bay . The Emsigerland was so dominant in the old Emsgau that it took its name: Emesgonia, universitas or terra Emesgonie or Emesgonum . With the development of the dominion of tom Brok, the old Emsgau dissolved. The Saterland, which in 1400 belonged to the East Frisian regional communities, was spared from the influence of the East Frisian chiefs, but then came under the rule of the Bishop of Münster and has since developed independently. The advance more towards the Groninger Ommelande oriented linksemsische Rheiderland came in the wake of the far reaching into the country Dollard slump, the Ems replaced as a natural border, in 1413 with the rest of Emsgaus under the rule of the tom Brok, whose heritage then the Cirksenas competed .
literature
- Hajo van Lengen: History of the Emsigerland from the early 13th to the late 15th century . 2 volumes. Aurich 1973.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jannes Ohling: Ostfriesland under the protection of the dike: Political history of Ostfrieslands , Leer 1975, p. 483, without ISBN, see also entry in the German National Library ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Hajo van Lengen (Ed.): The Frisian Freedom of the Middle Ages - Life and Legend , Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 2003, p. 70, ISBN 3-932206-30-4
- ^ Hajo van Lengen (Ed.): The Frisian Freedom of the Middle Ages - Life and Legends , Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 2003, p. 72, ISBN 3-932206-30-4
- ↑ Hajo van Lengen (Ed.): The Frisian Freedom of the Middle Ages - Life and Legend , Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 2003, p. 69, ISBN 3-932206-30-4
