Grönegau

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Grönegau
The Duchy of Saxony around the year 1000
Grönegau
Duchy of Saxony around the year 1000
The approximate location of the Grönegau

The Grönegau (also Graingau ) is the historical district name for one of the numerous Saxon districts that have been handed down to this day . The area was first mentioned in a document in 852.

The Grönegau is a region that is essentially congruent with the area of ​​today's city of Melle in the district of Osnabrück . The old Gaug limit ran around 800 to the 12th century in the south, probably as far as Borgholzhausen and Halle , in the east as far as Bünde and Spenge .

Parts of the early medieval Grönegau, including Halle , Borgholzhausen and Borgloh , no longer belong to the Grönenberg Office, first mentioned in a document in 1360 . From 1852 there were no more border shifts. From this date the extension of the Grönenberg office is identical to that of the later district of Melle and finally from 1972 that of the city of Melle.

See also: Gröneburg Castle , Kilver House

Even today, institutions, publications, events and associations in the region bear the nickname "Grönegau":

  • ADAC -Rallye-Grönegau
  • Motorway service station -Grönegau between Riemsloh and Melle on the A 30
  • Melle-Grönegau airfield
  • GrönegauBad Melle (indoor swimming pool)
  • Grönegauer Heimathefte
  • Grönegau Park Ludwigsee ( Gesmold )
  • Grönegau-Rundschau (magazine)
  • Grönegau Triathlon Melle
  • HSG Grönegau-Melle (handball club)
  • Dance club Grönegau
  • Housing construction Grönegau

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  • Roger Wilmans: The Imperial Charter of the Province of Westphalia 777-1313: critical, topographical and historical together with other documents and excursions. 1. The documents of the Carolingian age 777–900 . Printed and published by Friedrich Regensberg, Münster 1867, p. 113f. In: Digital Collection of the WWU-Münster

Individual evidence

  1. Rolf Wandhoff: The Grönegau in Wittekind's time (Ed. Heimatverein Melle eV). In: Grönenberger Heimathefte Heft 17.Melle 1987, p. 21.
  2. Rolf Wandhoff: The Grönegau in Wittekind's time (Ed. Heimatverein Melle eV). In: Grönenberger Heimathefte Heft 17.Melle 1987, p. 25.
  3. Otto Merker: The becoming of the territorial state using the example of the Grönenberg office . In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen, Vol. 74. Osnabrück 1967, pp. 1–36.
  4. ^ Fritz-Gerd Mittelstädt : The Grönegau: Office Grönenberg - District Melle - City of Melle (Ed. Fritz-Gerd Mittelstädt, Ernst-Heinrich Noth). In: The Grönegau. Meller Jahrbuch 1983 vol. 1. Melle 1982, p. 10 ff.
  5. ^ Website of the ADAC rally
  6. ^ Website of the city of Melle
  7. ^ Website Ludwigsee campsite
  8. ^ Website of the magazine Grönegau-Rundschau
  9. HSG website
  10. HSG website
  11. ^ Website of the Tanzclub Grönegau eV
  12. ^ Website WBG-Melle