Liesgau

The Duchy of Saxony around the year 1000

The approximate location of the Liesgau

The Liesgau (also Lisgau) was in the Middle Ages a Saxon district in what is now southeastern Lower Saxony and a small portion in northwest Thuringia.

geography

The Lisgau in the south of the Saxon tribal area on the border with Thuringia

The Liesgau was on the south-west side of the Harz Mountains in what is now southern Lower Saxony. Its boundaries are roughly circumscribed as: north-south orientation from Mönchehof to the Ohm Mountains near Duderstadt , east-west orientation from Steina to Sebexen . It is roughly congruent with the district of Osterode am Harz, which was dissolved in 2016, excluding the towns of Bad Sachsa and Tettenborn, which was incorporated in 1945 from the then Grafschaft Hohenstein district. Plus the former old office of Westerhof , which belonged to the Osterode district until 1977, and the places in the remaining district of Blankenburg Neuhof, Walkenried, Wieda and Zorge, which were added after the 1972 regional reform. The Gau probably includes the Rittigau in the north-west and the Mark Duderstadt in the south .

Neighboring districts were:

N Flenithi, Ambergau , Desingau
NE Harzgau
O Helmegau
S Ohmfeldgau , Eichsfeld
W Leinegau , Moronga

history

The Gau was mentioned several times in documents in the 9th to 11th centuries, including for the years 889 ( in pago Hlisgo ), 965 and 978 before.

Count:

Adalger (889)
Burchard IV in Hassegau
Athelbero (Berno) († 982 ), around 965–966 and Count Palatine in Saxony, Count in the Saxon Hessengau
Siegbart, brother of Dietrich (Palatinate Saxony) (990)
Heinrich III., ( Udonen )
Udo from Katlenburg
Dietrich I of Katlenburg
Dietrich II of Katlenburg
Dietrich III. from Katlenburg (until 1106)
Lothar von Süpplingenburg (after 1106)
from the middle of the 12th century to the Guelphs
- Henry the Lion (about 1156)

swell

The East Franconian King Arnulf of Carinthia enfeoffed Adalgar, the Count of Lisgau, with the towns of Kalefeld and Wulften . Document 55 of July 6, 889 in: Paul Kehr (Ed.): Diplomata 10: The documents of Arnolf (Arnolfi Diplomata). Berlin 1940, p. 79 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
Donation deed of King Otto III. , including 60 Hufen Land in Foresazi ( Förste ) in Lisgau. Certificate 67 in: Theodor Sickel (Ed.): Diplomata 13: The documents Otto II. And Otto III. (Ottonis II. Et Ottonis III. Diplomata). Hannover 1893, p. 474 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version) The original is in the Wolfenbüttel State Archives.
Erhard Kühlhorn: Historical and regional excursion map of Lower Saxony - explanatory booklet , 1970
Karl Spruner, Theodor Menke: Hand atlas for the history of the Middle Ages and modern times, 1880, Liesgau on map sheet 33

Individual evidence

↑ August von Wersebe : Description of the district between the Elbe, Saale and Unstrut, Weser and Werra . Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1829, p. 25-34 .
↑ RI I n. 1822, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: [1] (accessed on August 22, 2017)
↑ RI II, 3 n. 1026, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: [2] (accessed on 23 August 2017)
^ Lutz Fenske: Gieboldehausen. In: German royal palaces. Vol. 4 Lower Saxony, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen 2001, p. 356 ff.

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[1] August von Wersebe : Description of the district between the Elbe, Saale and Unstrut, Weser and Werra . Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1829, p. 25-34 .

[2] RI I n. 1822, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: [1] (accessed on August 22, 2017)

[3] RI II, 3 n. 1026, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: [2] (accessed on 23 August 2017)

[4] Lutz Fenske: Gieboldehausen. In: German royal palaces. Vol. 4 Lower Saxony, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen 2001, p. 356 ff.