Gau Siusili
The former Gau Siusili (also susali or Susilin) in the Leipzig lowlands at the dump in Saxony was named after the Sorbs related West Slavic tribe of Siusili who populated (Siusli, Siusuli, Susler) the area in the 8th century.
The tribe of the Siusili
The East Franconian Empire began to push eastwards in the Thuringia area during the time of Ludwig the German , whereupon there were steadily growing conflicts with the Slavic population who had immigrated there. Charlemagne had set up as early as 788 a Thüringische Mark ( "ducatus Thoringiae cum marchis suis") as a boundary mark against the Sorbs, and no later than the middle of the ninth century, the so-called. Was east of it Sorbenmark created, however, the already at the end 9th century had lost its importance again. The first margrave known by name (“comes et dux Sorabici limitis”) was Thakulf , from 849 to 873. He was followed by 874–880 Ratolf , probably from the Frankish Babenbergs .
The Gau Siusili attracted attention in 873, when parts of its residents carried out a raid with other Sorbs in Thuringian territory. In early 874 the Sorbs and Siusili refused to pay the tribute that was forced upon them. Thereupon, and in retaliation for the raid of the previous year, Archbishop Liutberg von Mainz , the Arch Chancellor of the Reich, and Ratolf, the Margrave of the Sorbian march, led an army over the Saale in January 874 , suppressed the revolt by pillage and pillage, and forced it the Siusili and the Mecklenburg Lions in recognition of the sovereignty of Ludwig the German. The main festival of the Siusili is believed to be at Gollma .
The Gau Siusili
The district comprised the area between Bitterfeld , Delitzsch , Bad Düben and Wurzen , with the center Eilenburg . Neighboring the Gaue Nizizi in the northeast, Dalaminza in the southeast and between the Gau Neletici, Chutizi in the southwest, and Coledizi in the west.
The area was conquered, colonized and Germanized in the 10th century under King Heinrich I. The sources are sparse: the first documentary mention occurs in a deed of gift from King Otto II dated August 30, 974 in favor of the Church of St. Laurentius in Merseburg . The Gau then belonged to the Lausitz mark . It was initially administered together with the Gau Chutizi and the former Halberstadt area to the left of the Saale by the short-lived first bishopric Merseburg (968-981) and then passed to Friedrich I von Wettin , Count of Eilenburg, and thus to the Wettins .
Today's place names
Place names such as " Seusslitz " (district of Diesbar-Seusslitz or Nünchritz , ten kilometers northwest of Meißen in the district of Meißen , first recorded as "Suselitz" in 1205) and Seiselitz (district of Mertendorf in the Burgenland district , for the first time in 977 as "Suseliz", later than "Suselitz", "Seuselitz" and "Suslitz" notarized) go back to the Siusili.
literature
- Felix Biermann : Slavic settlement between the Elbe, Neisse and Lubsza, archaeological studies on settlement and material culture in the early and high Middle Ages. Bonn 2000.
- Alfred Friese: Studies on the history of the rule of the Franconian nobility. The mainland-Thuringian region from the 7th to the 11th century. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979
- Hansjürgen Brachmann : The Limes Sorabicus - History and Effect. Zeitschrift für Archäologie 25, 1991, pp. 177-207.
- Karlheinz Deschner: criminal history of Christianity; Volume 5: 9th and 10th centuries. From Ludwig the Pious (814) to the death of Otto III. (1002). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1997, ISBN 3-498-01304-1 .