Lochtropgau
The Lochtropgau (also Lothorpe ) (lat. Pagus Locdorp , hole Thorpe ) was an early medieval Under gau of Gaus Angrien (pagus Angeron).
It was in southern Westphalia in what is now the Sauerland . It is named after the town of Lochtrop near Eslohe . The ancestors and first counts of Werl owned the Gaus. The Gau belonged to Count Hermann's Comitat . The sources mentioned Stockhausen near Meschede , Oedingen (today Lennestadt) and Hellefeld (today Sundern ) as associated places . Meschede and the area of the city of Olsberg should have been one of them. The area included the original parishes of Wormbach and Velmede . The area was roughly bounded by the Ruhr and Lenne .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heiner Lenze: Hellefeld 1100 years ago. In: Sauerland 3/1986 p. 82
literature
- Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , pp. 387-388.
- Heinrich Boettger: Diocesan and Gau borders of northern Germany. Third department. Halle an der Saale, 1875 p. 33f.
- Johann Suibert Seibertz : State and legal history of the Duchy of Westphalia , Volume 1, P. 14, Arnsberg, Ritter 1845
- Wilhelm Tobien : Memories from the past of Westphalia , illustrated by sources and recent research, 2 volume, p. 8, Elberfeld 1873