County of Walbeck

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The county of Walbeck was a medieval domain with the main town of Walbeck northeast of Helmstedt in what is now the city of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen in Saxony-Anhalt .

The first count was Lothar I, who died in 930. The Walbeck Monastery was founded in 942 by Count Lothar II on his castle as the monastery of the Walbeck counts. The Counts of Walbeck were in the older line from 985 to 1009 margraves of the North Mark . With the extinction of the younger line, probably in the second half of the 11th century, the county of Walbeck passed to the Counts of Plötzkau , who then also became Margraves of the Nordmark. The best-known member of the family is the bishop and historian Thietmar von Merseburg (975-1018).

expansion

Immediately northwest of the county of Sommerschenburg came the county of Walbeck. The possessions of the Counts of Walbeck, like those of the Liege Counts of Sommerschenburg, were mostly in the Gaue Nordthüringgau and belonged to the diocese of Halberstadt , which included the landscape of Northern Thuringia . However, since the by Foundation archbishopric Magdeburg the bishopric Halberstadt for these areas, as well as for the parts of his diocese, which extend into the Nordmark (later Altmark , extended) from the Archdiocese Mainz was dissolved and placed in the archdiocese Magdeburg, also Saxon ( Low German ) Dialect was predominant here (which extended here over the whole of north-eastern Thuringia until the Reformation period , so that in this earlier time it still extended to Halle an der Saale and had its border between Halle and Merseburg , as it is now between Bernburg and Aschersleben ), we still have to count Sommerschenburg and Walbeck as part of Saxony and therefore necessarily part of Ostfalen .

As Walbeck possessions we had Walbeck itself in older times (Waldbeke or Waldbike, after the Waldbach, which at that time flowed into the Aller , now called Riola, on which it is located), then Weferlingen Castle and accessories (The villages of Siestedt, Ribensdorf, Klinze , Everingen , Belsdorf , Bensdorf , Eickendorf , Hödingen , Eschenrode , Seggerde and Döhren ); then a part of Wolmirstedt , furthermore North Germersleben and Tundersleben , Santersleben ( Groß-Sandersleben ) and Wodenswege ( Gutenswegen ), Redmersleben ( Rottmersleben ), and Arneburg (the latter probably Old Mark fiefdom).

Root list of the Counts of Walbeck

  1. Lothar I. von Walbeck the Elder, † September 5, 930
    1. Lothar II von Walbeck the Younger, † 964; ⚭ Countess Mathilde von Arneburg , had the Walbeck collegiate church built from 942
      1. Lothar III. , † January 25, 1003, 985 Margrave of the Nordmark ; ⚭ Godila
        1. Werner von Walbeck , † November 11, 1014, 1003 Margrave of the Nordmark , deposed in 1009; ⚭ January 1003 Luitgard von Meißen , † November 13, 1012, daughter of the Margrave Ekkehard I.
        2. Lothar IV. , † 1033, fallen, Margrave of the Nordmark ⚭ NN
          1. Siegfried, † after 1087, Count of Derlingau and in Northern Thuringia ; ⚭ NN
            1. Oda, † 1152; ⚭ Goswin I. von Heinsberg , † 1128
        3. Berthold, † 1018 or later; ⚭ 1. Irmgard von Aspelt , ⚭ 2. NN
          1. (2) Irmgard, † February 5, 1075; ⚭ Chadalhoch Graf im Isengau, † October 30, 1050, ( Aribonen )
        4. Dietrich, Canon in Magdeburg
      2. Eila, † August 19, 1015; ⚭ Berthold Markgraf im Nordgau , † January 15, 980 ( Babenberger , Schweinfurt (noble family) )
      3. Thietmar, 983–1001 Abbot of Corvey
      4. Siegfried , † March 15, 990, count; ⚭ Kunigunde von Stade , † July 13, 997, daughter of Count Heinrich
        1. Heinrich, Count
        2. Friedrich , Burgrave of Magdeburg ; ⚭ Thietberga
          1. Konrad , Burgrave of Magdeburg
            1. Mathilde, heiress of Walbeck, ⚭ Dietrich Graf von Plötzkau , † August 13 ...
        3. Thietmar von Merseburg , * July 25, 975, † December 1, 1018, 1009 Bishop of Merseburg , historian
        4. Siegfried , Bishop of Münster 1002–1032
        5. Bruno , Bishop of Verden 1034-1049

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Schrader: The Patch Calvörde - A 1200-year history. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2011, p. 71.