Gau Coledizi

Coledizi in the Sorbian tribes.

Coledizi was a Gau or Untergau (from Serimunt ) in what is now Saxony-Anhalt in the area of ​​the Fuhne between Halle and Köthen . The name of the town of Glauzig in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district can be traced back to the Coledizi root. The present-day localities of Weißandt, Trebbichau, Görzig, Piethen (Bitene), Edderitz (Ezeri) and Pilsenhöhe (Bulzina) are also located in the former Gau Coledizi.

history

The area was originally settled by Wends , but in the 10th and 11th centuries it was incorporated into the Saxon domain under the Ottonians as part of the German expansion to the east . There is documentary evidence of donations made by Emperor Otto II in 973 and 981, with which he awarded goods in Coledizi to his vassals: In 973 he gave Count Thimo ( Thiethmar I of Meissen ) an area of ​​land in Coledizi north of the Fuhne and in 981 a certain Nancilinus the county of Mark Gimuete in the Gau Coledizi.

Count

Thietmar's Grafschaf in Gau Coledizi fell to his son Gero II after his death in 978 or 979 .

Settlements

According to the atlas of the Saale and central Elbe region, the Gau Coledizi included the following settlements:

At the foot

From the west:

• Kattau
• Cösitz

North of the Fuhne

From the west:

• Edderitz
• Piethen
• Görzig

Sources and web links

• Trebbichau
• http://www.weissandt-goelzau.de/lesungen/texte/index.html
• Gero II in Genealogy Middle Ages

Remarks

1. ↑ Otto Schlüter, Oskar August (ed.) With the participation of numerous experts: Atlas of the Saale and central Elbe region. Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1958–1960, map 10