Gudingau

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

The Gudingau (also Guddingo, Guddingen, Guttingau, Guottinga, Guddinge) is a medieval name, mainly used from the 9th to the 12th century, for a Saxon region ( Gau ) in the former East Westphalia , in today's southern Lower Saxony roughly between Elze , Lauenstein , Duingen and Eldagsen . The name itself may have been derived from the personal name 'Gudo'.

geography

Gudingau (" Guotinga ") and the surrounding districts in the tribal duchy of Saxony around 1000

The Gudingau was bordered in the east by the Leine with the Gau Valothungo behind it , to the right of the Leine around Gronau . In the southeast, the Gau Aringo joined Rheden and its main town Alfeld , with the border along the ridge of the Külf . In the south, the villages along the Hoyershausen - Duingen - Capellenhagen line belonged to the Gudingau. The south-western edge was the Untergau Wikanafeld with the only church village Eschershausen . In the west, the demarcation is continued at the ridges of the Ith to the Gau Tilihti and via Coppenbrügge , the Osterwald to Springe . The northern boundary to the Marstemgau is marked by the Haller , so that the Gudingau has extended to over Eldagsen .

This area is traversed by the Saale , which rises near Duingen and flows into the Leine in Elze . The Königstuhl, Gudingo's old dinghouse, was located in the deserted village of Gudingen between Elze and Gronau . The Gudingau thus roughly comprised the areas of the archdeaconates Eldagsen, Elze, Oldendorf and Wallensen .

history

According to early documents, Emperor Otto III. in the year 997 the monastery Essen in the Rhineland the goods located in Gudingau to Hemmendorp ( Hemmendorf ), Ledi (desert near Gronau ) and Bantanon ( Banteln ). The foundation deed of the Hildesheim Michaeliskloster dated November 1, 1022 by Bishop Bernward and its confirmation by Emperor Heinrich II. Of November 2, 1022 names the following places in Gudingau: Middele (Mehle), Saalenhusen (wüst near Hemmendorf ) and Osithe (wüst near Elze ). In a document from 1068, Heinrich IV gave the Hildesheim diocese the county rights. Therein Wallensen (whales Bergenhusen) mentioned as Archidiakonatssitz with the mother Church Guddingo, in addition to the Diakonatsbesitz ( Duingen etc.) and places Densun (Dehnsen, but more likely Deinsen ) and Lübbrechtshausen (Lübbrechtsen).

Counts of Gudingau

Until 1068 the Billungers are the Counts of Gudingau

  • 997 Rudeger
  • 1013 Luidolf (* ~ 1003; † April 23, 1038), board member at Gut Ledi (Lehde, near Gronau)
  • until 1068 Egbert I
  • 1068 Egbert II loses this and other districts after the death of his father. Acquisition of county rights by the Hildesheim diocese.

swell

  • Wilhelm Barner : Our home, the land between Hildesheimer Wald and Ith, Hildesheim and Leipzig 1931, p. 262–264
  • Paul Graff: History of the Alfeld district, pp. 49–58.
  • DE Baring: Description of the Saale in the Lauenstein Office ("Saalechronik"), Lemgo 1744

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