Gau Chutizi

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Location de Gaus Chutizi around 1000
Chutizi in the Sorbian tribes.

The Gau Chutizi (also Chuntizi, Gudici ...) was a medieval Gaugrafschaft between the rivers Saale and depression . In this Gau was the Miriquidi forest area , mentioned in 974 , which was given to the diocese of Merseburg by Emperor Otto II and which was mistakenly interpreted as an Erzgebirge forest for a long time . The Gau was in the eastern part of the Mark Merseburg , belonging to it was a wide strip of land east of the Mulde, which Thietmar von Merseburg called chutizi orientalis . Magdeborn was described in 969 as lying in the Gau Chutizi.

Counts in Gau Chutizi

literature

  • Gerhard Cheap : The Burgward organization in the Upper Saxon-Meissnian area: archaeological-archival comparative studies . Publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden 20, Dt. Verl. Der Wiss, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-326-00489-3 .
  • Leo Bönhoff : Chutizi orientalis . In: New Archive for Saxon History and Antiquity, Vol. 31, 1910, pp. 1–28.
  • Robert Holtzmann : The Slawengau Chutizi and the place Schkeuditz . In: Otto Korn (Ed.): On the history and culture of the Elb-Saale area . Festschrift for Walter Möllenberg, Burg bei Magdeburg 1939, pp. 39–52.
  • Reinhard Spehr : Christianization and the earliest church organization in the Mark Meissen. An attempt . In: Judith Oexle (ed.): Early churches in Saxony. Results of archaeological and architectural studies (publications by the State Office for Archeology and State Museum for Prehistory 23) Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8062-1094-2 , pp. 8–63.

Remarks

  1. King's document from Otto II dated August 30, 974, issued in Frohse : Zwenkau Castle in Gau Chutizi in the county of Gunthers . RI II, 2 n.670, in: Regesta Imperii Online, http://www.regesta-imperii.de/id/0974-08-30_1_0_2_2_0_189_670 (accessed on November 12, 2019).