Leinegau
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The Duchy of Saxony around the year 1000
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The Leinegau (also Lochne-gau) was in the Middle Ages a Saxon district in what is now Lower Saxony in the area around the " Obere Leine ".
geography
Its western border is the Weser . In the east it reached the Eichsfeld . On the southern border of the Leinegau were on today's Hanoverian side u. a. the localities of Wiershausen , Lippoldshausen and Hedemünden (districts of Hann. Münden ), Gertenbach , Hübenthal (districts of Witzenhausen ), Eichenberg , Arnstein, Hottenrode , Reckershausen , Reiffenhausen , etc.
Neighboring districts: Morunga in the north, Liesgau in the east, Eichsfeld and Germarmark in the south, Hessengau in the west
Differentiation from Loingau
The Leinegau is the name for the area on the upper reaches of the Leine. The area at the confluence of the Leine, Aller and Böhme , which in some places is also known as Leinegau, is described under the name Loingau .
history
The Leinegaue was first mentioned in writing for the year 833.
Elli I († after 965) from the Esikonen family (later the Counts of Reinhausen-Winzenburg) was count in the neighboring Saxon Hessengau from 942 and also count in Leinegau from around 950. After Ellis death, the Saxon Hessengau was united with the Leinegau. Other counts from the family were Hermann I, Hermann II (probably until 1046). At the beginning of the 12th century, Hermann I and Hermann II von Winzenburg were Gaugrafen im Leinegau, from 1130 the Thuringian Landgrave Ludwig . The Gaugericht was located on the Leineberg near the Palatinate Grona .
The Archdiocese of Mainz was responsible for the church.
literature
- Böttiger, Karl Wilhelm: History of the electoral state and kingdom of Saxony. Volume 1: From earlier times to the middle of the 16th century . Hamburg: Friedrich Perthes Verlag, 1830, p. 101f [1]
- Stockhausen, Victor Frhr. from, Ending Middle Ages in the state of Göttingen. Friedland / Leine, 1928
- August von Wersebe : Description of the district between the Elbe, Saale and Unstrut, Weser and Werra . Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1829, p. 4-16 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ August von Wersebe: Description of the district between the Elbe, Saale and Unstrut, Weser and Werra. Published by Hahn'schen Buchhandlung, Hanover 1829, pages 4
- ↑ August Seidensticker: Legal and economic history of North German forests, especially in the state of Hanover. Vol. 2 Göttingen 1869, page 244
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