Friesenfeld
The Friesenfeld was a district that stretched in what is now northern Thuringia and southern Saxony-Anhalt in the area between Allstedt and Merseburg and adjoined the Hassegau . Numerous places in the Friesenfeld region such as Oßfurt were obliged to submit tithes to the Hersfeld monastery . In 932 the Gau was mentioned in the Grafschaft Siegfried together with the Westgau and Altgau.
It was named after the Frisians who settled here as colonists .
literature
- August von Wersebe: Description of the Gaue between Elbe, Saale and Unstrut, Weser and Werra: With a map , 1829, p. 96 ff digitized
- Georg Landau: Contributions to the description of the Gaue Frisenfeld and Hassegau , In: General archive for the history of the Prussian state , Volume 12, 1833 digitized
- Hermann Großler : The common scope of the Gaue Friesenfeld and Hassegau , in: Zeitschrift des Harzverein VI (1873)
- General Archive for the History of the Prussian State, Volume 3, S.44f