Gau Nizizi
The Gau Nizizi , also Gau Niccici , was part of the former Saxon East Mark , or after the division of the same of the Mark Lausitz , and comprised the area between the rivers Mulde , Elbe and Black Elster northwest of the former Mark Meißen (see map). The area is in what is now the districts of North Saxony , Wittenberg and Elbe-Elster .
Nizizi means something like inhabitants of the lowlands . There are no large early urban Slavic settlements or market towns before the 12th century in this area . There is also no known central tribal or regional fortification on the corresponding Elbe, but there were main places such as Belgern , Torgau , Dommitzsch and Pratau .
The area was settled by Sorbs and only came under final German rule in the course of the 10th and 11th centuries under the Margraves Gero , Thietmar I and Gero II .
The area between the Elbe and the Schwarzer Elster ( Belgern to Uebigau to the north ) was called Mezumroka. It is unclear whether this area was also part of the Nizizi Gau.
To the south was the Gau Nisan .
literature
- Ruth Schölkopf: The Saxon Counts (919-1024) (Studies and preparatory work for the Historical Atlas of Lower Saxony; Vol. 22). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishing House, Göttingen 1957.
- Lorenz Friedrich Beck : Rule and territory of the dukes of Saxony-Wittenberg (1212-1422) (Library of Brandenburg and Prussian History; Vol. 6). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2000, ISBN 3-932981-63-4 (also dissertation, Technical University Berlin 1998).