Gau Serimunt
The Gau Serimunt was a medieval county in what is now Saxony-Anhalt . It was under Sorbian rule at the beginning of the 10th century and stretched between the Saale , Mulde , Fuhne and Elbe as an eastern neighbor of the Schwabengau .
location
Serimunt was opposite the Schwabengau on the east bank of the Saale . The dominant and administrative areas of the 10th / 11th centuries, the Gaue and the Burgwarde located in them, often ended at rivers and in impassable swampy lowlands or impenetrable forests. The area east of the Saale and east of the northern Thuringia belonged in the north with Trabitz and Zudhau to the Gau Zitizi (also Zitici), which in research is mostly regarded as the Untergau of Serimunt. Also the Burgward Budizko ( Grimschleben ) originally formed a Untergau ( pago ) with 30 mostly smaller villages due to the strong, triple castle complex of around 14 hectares in size .
The northern border of Serimunt and Zitizi was formed by the Elbe , the eastern border of Serimunt by the Mulde . Its northern neighbor was the Gau Zerwisti (around Zerbst), its eastern neighbor was the extensive Gau Nizizi , which stretched along the Elbe to Belgern .
In the south of Serimunt was the Gau Coledizi (also Coledici), whose affiliation with Serimunt is controversial in research. The Coledizer settled north of the Fuhne, south of it there was another Gau Zitizi around Zörbig .
While the prehistoric settlement chamber on the Saale was very densely populated, there were only a few settlements on the Mulde and a very large area free of settlement in between, so that Serimunt was mostly uninhabited.
history
By the middle of the 10th century, the area was conquered by the Margrave Gero and placed under the direct rule of King Otto I. The state of Anhalt developed from the Serimunt Gau and the Schwabengau under the rule of the Ascanians at the beginning of the 12th century .
Count
Counts in Gau Serimunt were:
- Christian († around 950), 937 Count in Schwabengau and Northern Thuringia and 945 Margrave in Gau Serimunt, from the Billunger family , father of Archbishop Gero of Cologne (967–976); ∞ Hidda, sister of Margrave Gero , who however did not reside there.
- Thietmar I. (Thiemo) († 979), his son, Margrave of the Nordmark 965–979, Count in Schwabengau 944–978, Count in Gau Serimunt, Margrave of Merseburg and Meißen ; ∞ Suanehild, daughter of Duke Hermann Billung of Saxony († 1014)
- Gero II , son of Thietmar, margrave of the Lausitz region (* around 970, † 1015); ∞ Adelheid
- Esiko von Ballenstedt , Count in Schwabengau and in the Serimunt Gau († probably 1059/1060); ∞ Mathilde (* probably 988, † July 29, 1031/1032), daughter of Duke Hermann II of Swabia , buried in the Cathedral of Worms , widow of Conrad I, Duke of Carinthia († 1011 ) ( Salier ), and Friedrich II . Duke of Upper Lorraine († 1026 Wigeriche )
Settlements
According to the atlas of the Saale and central Elbe region, the Gau Serimunt contained the following settlements:
At the Saale
From the south:
- Pechlitz (desert south of Dröbel ) near the mouth of the Fuhn
- Budizko (Sorbian), East Franconian Grimschleben (Burgward opposite the mouth of the Bodensee )
- Wedlitz
- Wispitz
- Trabitz (to the Untergau Zitizi )
- Klein Rosenburg (Burgward near the mouth of the Saale)
East of the Saale
From the west:
- Zechelitz (deserted area on the Fuhne south of Dröbel and south of Pechlitz)
- Wisegk (desert on the Fuhne south of Groß-Poley )
- Prüdau (desert west of Pobzig)
- Prederitz (desert south of Latdorf)
- Weddegast
- Lazez (desert south-east of Wedlitz)
- Zieglitz (desert east of Wispitz)
- Pobzig
- Schlobeck (desert between Latdorf and Borgesdorf)
- Cossuwisse (desert southeast of Weddegast)
- Biendorf (Bernburg)
- Wohlsdorf
- Ankendorf (desert near Gramsdorf )
- Repzig (desert northwest of Drosa )
- Molweide (desert east of Klein-Paschleben )
- Scharwegk (desert north of Groß-Paschleben )
At the hollow
From the south:
- Stene (desert south of Dessau )
- Burg-Kühnau (desert east of Großkühnau )
Remarks
- ↑ 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.