Hammelburg mark description

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The Hammelburg mark description is an early medieval document in Latin with Old High German elements. As a representative of the group of Latin border descriptions with vernacular components, the Hammelburg mark description is one of the oldest monuments of the Old High German language and Old High German literature . The Hammelburger Mark Description logs the boundary line of the historic Mark Hammelburg .

meaning

The text of the document, of which only a copy from the first half of the ninth century has survived, is written mainly in Latin from the 8th century , but in addition to pure Old High German place names in this language there are also terms relating to landscape forms and relate their relative position to each other, which are important for the knowledge of Old High German.

The Hammelburg mark description is the oldest surviving document in a series of comparable documents. These include in particular the Würzburg mark descriptions and the boundary description of the Neustadt am Main monastery from 772. Unlike the Hammelburg, Neustadt and the first Würzburg mark description, the second Würzburg mark description is written entirely in Old High German.

content

Charlemagne had on January 7 777 in Herstal the monastery of Fulda under abbot Sturmi the fiscus Hammelburg in Saalgau given. The mark description is the testimony of the property assignment by the Counts Nithard and Heimo and the royal vassals Finnold and Guntramn with a description of the boundaries, which had been determined by interviewing the notables of the territory.

Dating

Since the date of the deed indicates the third year of Charles' kingship ( anno tertio regni piissimi regis Caroli ), Engelbert Mühlbacher , the publisher of the Carolingian diplomas, dated the date of assignment to possession of October 8, 776. Michael appeared in the addenda to the Carolingian diploma Tangl for dating October 8, 777, which later research also accepted.

literature

  • Wilhelm Arndt , Michael Tangl: tablets for learning the Latin palaeography. Berlin 1903, plate 73: Illustration of the certificate ( digitized version from ULB Düsseldorf), commentary on p. 36–38 ( digitized version ).
  • Rolf Bergmann : Boundary Descriptions. In: Rolf Bergmann (Ed.): Old High German and Old Saxon Literature. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, p. 144.
  • Rolf Bergmann: Hammelburg mark description. In: Rolf Bergmann (Ed.): Old High German and Old Saxon Literature. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 146–147.
  • Günther H. Wich: Brückenau-Hammelburg. In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , Part Franconia, Series I. Issue 23, 1973, pp. 15-20.
  • Klaus Weyer: From the Celtic shrine to the Carolingian mission monastery - Neustadt am Main. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019, pp. 127–142, ISBN 978-3-8260-6740-2 .

Remarks

  1. ^ Rolf Bergmann: Hammelburger Markbeschreibung . In: Rolf Bergmann (Ed.): Old High German and Old Saxon Literature . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, p. 146 .
  2. ^ Rolf Bergmann: Border descriptions . In: Rolf Bergmann (Ed.): Old High German and Old Saxon Literature . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, p. 144 .
  3. ↑ Würzburg market descriptions on Franconica online; Entry in the manuscript census
  4. ^ RI I n. 205, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: [1] (accessed November 27, 2012).
  5. ↑ Engelbert Mühlbacher with the participation of Alfons Dopsch , Johann Lechner and Michael Tangl (eds.): Diplomata 4: The documents of Pippin, Karlmann and Charlemagne (Pippini, Carlomanni, Caroli Magni Diplomata). Hanover 1906, p. 162 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  6. ↑ Engelbert Mühlbacher with the participation of Alfons Dopsch , Johann Lechner and Michael Tangl (eds.): Diplomata 4: The documents of Pippin, Karlmann and Charlemagne (Pippini, Carlomanni, Caroli Magni Diplomata). Hanover 1906, p. 564 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )

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