Marstemgau
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The Duchy of Saxony around the year 1000
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The Marstemgau or Marstengau , Merstem was a medieval district in Engern, Saxony . It lay west and south of Hanover and included the Calenberger Land to the Steinhuder Meer . The Gudingau bordered to the south, the Bukkigau to the west , the Loingau and the Gau Astfala to the east and the Grindergau to the north . Since the Saxon Wars of Charlemagne around 800, the Marstemgau belonged to the diocese of Minden and was divided into the archdeaconate Pattensen and Wunstorf .
Marstemgau (" Marstem ") and the surrounding districts in the tribal duchy of Saxony around 1000
The count's rights were in the hands of the Billunger from 955 to 1106 . At the beginning of the 12th century they were with the Counts of Schwalenberg . Then they passed to the Counts of Roden .
literature
- Bernhard Engelke : The Marstemgau , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , volume 31 (1928), pp. 247–281
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): History of the City of Hanover, Volume 1, 1992, pp. 18f
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