Ohmfeldgau

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The Ohmfelgau in the north of the Thuringian tribal area on the border with the Saxons

The Ohmfeldgau was a medieval district in what is now northwestern Thuringia .

geography

The Ohmfeldgau extended roughly over the area of ​​today's Ohmgebirge and adjacent peripheral areas. The name seems to be taken over from the mountains called Ohmberg (also Ohmfeld ) at that time, as well as those of the places Kaltohmfeld and Kirchohmfeld (formerly Warmohmfeld). Even today there are two mountains called Ohmberg in the Ohm Mountains. Another origin is derived from the small river Ohne (in pago Onefeld), which flows into the Wipper south of the Ohm Mountains .

A precise delimitation of the districts is difficult because the affiliations have changed at different times and only a few documents are available. Neighboring and nearby districts were: the Liesgau with the Mark Duderstadt in the northwest, the Helmegau in the northeast, the Wippergau or Altgau in the east and the Eichsfeldgau in the south and west.

history

Historically the Ohmfeldgau belonged to the Thuringian settlement area on the border to the neighboring Saxons . He is mentioned only once in a letter from a Fulda monk Eberhard as pago Onefelt , in which a Bernher and Rihmut hand over their goods to the Fulda monastery . In 1157 these goods were possibly named in Weißenborn in an exchange of the monasteries Fulda and Gerode.

The Gau probably included the offices of Worbis , Harburg , Gerode and the Bodenstein court and probably did not belong to the Eichsfeldgau. The Harburg office may also have belonged to the Wippergau. Between 1124 and 1573 the individual offices came to Eichsfeld in Electoral Mainz . The Counts of Northeim, the Dukes of Braunschweig and Margravine Richardis of Stade with their sons Udo and Rudolf had larger possessions in the Ohmfeldgau and beyond . In 1124 Richardis handed over the Gerode monastery and the Harburg to the Archbishop of Mainz, Adalbert . In connection with the transfer of the monastery, a Count Udalricus de Wimare (Ulrich von Weimar) is mentioned for the period between 1111 and 1137, but Ulrich II von Weimar died in 1112.

Gaugrafen were probably Burchard, Wigger II and his son Rüdiger. After the 11th century, the area around the Ohm Mountains came to the County of Lohra .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Samuelansch and Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1832, Volume 3 (OZ), pages 450–451
  2. ^ Johann Vinzenz Wolf : Political history of the Eichsfeldes. Göttingen 1792, Volume 1, pp. 24-25
  3. ↑ August von Wersebe: Description of the district between the Elbe, Saale and Unstrut, Weser and Werra. In the publishing house of Hahn'schen Buchhandlung, Hanover 1829, pages 41–43
  4. ↑ Johann Wolf: Political history of the Eichsfeld with documents explained. Göttingen 1792, p. 26
  5. ↑ Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of law and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, p. 480
  6. ↑ August von Wersebe: Description of the district between the Elbe, Saale and Unstrut, Weser and Werra. Published by Hahn'schen Buchhandlung, Hanover 1829, page 42