Rittigau

The Rittigau within the Liesgau in the south of the Saxon tribal area

The Rittigau was a small area in the northwest of the Liesgau or followed it in time. It included the area around Northeim and parts of the old office of Westerhof . The naming should according to the so named today, a good 3.6 km north-northeast of the local center of Northeim to 51 ° 44 '1 "  N , 10 ° 1' 44"  O located Rethoberg ( 252  m above sea level. NN ) to be carried out. It is the home of the Counts of Northeim .

Counts

• 1015 Bernhard (from Northeim?)

literature

• K.-H. Lange: The domain of the Counts v. Northeim 950-1144. (Stud. And preliminary work for the Historical Atlas of Lower Saxony 24, 1969)
• R. Wenskus: Saxons. Tribal nobility and frk. Imperial nobility. (AAG. Phil. Hist. Kl. III, 93, 1976).
• The German royal palaces: repertory of the palaces, royal courts and others. Volume 4. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1983, p. 340.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ RI II, 4 n. 1855, in: Regesta Imperii Online [1] (accessed on September 8, 2017)

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