Lerigau
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The Duchy of Saxony around the year 1000
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The Lerigau is a district in early medieval Saxony . It extended west of the middle Hunte to over the upper Soeste . The center of power was Wildeshausen on the eastern border at the junction of a long-distance route over the Hunte from the southwest.
history
Abbot Gerbert Castus led to 800 n. Chr. Of Visbek from the Christianization of Saxony u. a. in Lerigau. Before that, from 780 AD, Charlemagne (* probably April 2, 747 or 748; † January 28, 814 in Aachen) had erected mission centers for the Christianization of the subject Saxons , of which the "cellula fiscbechi" (Visbek) were loud Document of Louis the Pious from September 1, 819 formed one. However, this document is now regarded as a total forgery from the late 10th century. From the year 855 at the latest, the Lerigau mission district came under the control of the Corvey monastery through a donation from Ludwig the German .
Around 850 Waltbert , the only son of the Saxon Count Wigbert and Odrada and thus a grandson of Widukind , was Gaugraf. He became known for the transfer of the bones of the martyr Alexander of Rome , which he brought from Rome to Wildeshausen. The events in connection with this transfer can be read in the text De miraculis sancti Alexandri .
The later county of Lerigau, mentioned in a document in 947, was the property of Count Heinrich I, who was appointed Count of Westphalia in 955 . His son Hermann I is considered to be the first offspring of the Counts of Werl .
The old Saxon Gogericht was on the Desum (today in the municipality of Emstek ), originally the place of the thing, the people's assembly with jurisdiction for the whole Lerigau.
Neighboring in the southwest was the Hasegau around Löningen , in the south the Dersagau between Vechta and Damme . In the northeast, the Largau stretched between the Allermouth and Verden as far as Oldenburg along the Weser . In the north he came across the Ammergau .
literature
- Marietta Jüchter-Bieber: The Gogericht on the Desum . In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 1986 . Vechta 1985, pp. 44-59.
- Bernd Ulrich Hucker: The rulership of the Reichsabtei Werden in Lerigau . In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 1990 . Vechta 1989, pp. 21-39.
Web links
- The historical development of the state of Oldenburg (PDF; 784 kB) on the Lower Saxony education server (PDF file; 766 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kölzer, Theo: The documents of Ludwig the Pious for Halberstadt (BM2 535) and Visbek (BM2 702) - a serious misunderstanding , in: Archiv für Diplomatik 58 (2012) pp. 103–123 (here: pp. 119–121) .
- ^ Oldenburg official district . Retrieved October 15, 2013.
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