Osterburg district
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The Duchy of Saxony around the year 1000
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| The approximate location of the Osterburg district |
Pagus Osterburg in the map "TABULA ANGARIAE IN DIOECESI PATERBORNENSI " by Christian Ulrich Grupen , 1740
The Osterburg-Gau (also Osterpurge ) was in the Middle Ages, a Saxon Gau in Weserbergland .
The extent and the boundaries of this area were reconstructed by Walter Maack in the 1960s . The seat of the count was probably the Osterburg on the slope of the Weser Mountains above Deckbergen . The Gaugrafen family died out at the end of the 9th century. Part of his lordship was used to equip the Möllenbeck Monastery . The Exten parish was the original church of the Osterburg district.
After the count family died out, the Osterburg district, like all districts of the Minden diocese , came under the control of the Billunger .
literature
- Walter Maack: Villages and corridors of the Rinteln basin: a contribution to the history of the Schaumburg settlement . C. Bösendahl, Rinteln, 1964
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