North Thuringia

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North Thuringia
Holy Roman Empire around 1000, detail.
The Northern Thuringia (Nordthuringowe) around the year 1000.

In the Middle Ages, Northern Thuringia was a Saxon county in East Westphalia north of the Großer Graben - Bode line , west of the Elbe-Saale line and south of the Ohre - and the Spetzen lowlands . It stretched on both sides of the River Aller . The county became part of the Askanian ancestral land, the Altmark and later became part of the Mark Brandenburg . In its history it was at times divided into two, three and even four parts. These were assigned to various counts.

Neighboring districts

The Slavic settlement began east of northern Thuringia with the Gau Moraciani and Zerwisti in the north on the Elbe and the Gau Zitizi (to Gau Serimunt ) in the south on the Saale.

The Derlingau joined in the west, the Schwabengau (from the Saale) and the Harzgau in the south .

A forest area that was uninhabited in prehistoric times extended to the north.

The core area represented the prehistoric and early historical open settlement landscape between Nienburg and Althaldensleben .

Settlements

According to the atlas of the Saale and central Elbe region, the following settlements were located in Northern Thuringia :

The following places were on the Saale border (between Saxony and Slavs) (starting in the south):

On the Bode border (between Saxony and Suebi) were (starting at the mouth of the Bod):

On the border to the Harzgau north of the Great Grave was the place:

At the Elbe border (between Saxony and Slavs) were (starting at the mouth of the Saale):

On the Ohre border towards a large, historically uninhabited forest area between the Ohre and the Gau Belcsem in the east on the Elbe and the Mark Lipani north of Kalbe (Milde) were (starting at the mouth of the Ohr):

In the northwest, the border was not formed directly by the Ohre, but by the lowland of the Spetze , a tributary of the Aller, which lies further south . The following settlements were located here (starting on the upper reaches of the Spetze):

In the west, the uppermost part of the Aller up to the Spetze formed the edge of the settlement with the following places:

The following localities were in the central settlement area (starting in the south near the ground):

Count of Northern Thuringia

Part of the ore monastery of Magdeburg :

Part of the Nordmark :

Part of the Lausitz mark :

The Gau Serimunt was later added to the Northern Thuringia:

literature

  • Carl C. von Leutsch : Marggraf Gero: In addition to a gaugeography of Thuringia and the Ostmark ( digitized version ).
  • August von Wersebe : Description of the district between the Elbe, Saale and Unstrut, Weser and Werra . Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1829 ( digitized version ).
  • Ruth Schölkopf: The Saxon Counts (919-1024).
  • Andreas Thiele: Narrative genealogical family tables on European history . Volume 1, Part 2: German imperial, royal, ducal and count houses II: BD I / 2 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ on the east bank of the Elbe from Magdeburg - Pechau to Schartau
  2. ↑ also Ciervisti - um Zerbst in Anhalt
  3. ↑ Otto Schlüter, Oskar August (ed.) With the participation of numerous experts: Atlas of the Saale and central Elbe region. Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1958–1960, map 15