Stormarn (Gau)
Stormarn counted as a Gau next to the Holstengau and Dithmarschen to the three North Elbe Sachsengauen .
The Stormarn district was located in the southeast of Schleswig-Holstein . In addition to today's Stormarn district, Stormarn also included the area of today 's Pinneberg district , part of Steinburg district , parts of Segeberg district and today's area of the Hanseatic city of Hamburg north of the Elbe. The Stormarns are already mentioned in writings from the 11th century such as the Hamburg Church History of Adam of Bremen , which were created during the time of the attempted possession of the Elbe estuary by Rome. There is spoken of the "Stormarni" as one of the Saxon tribes.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lemmata Gau u. Gauviertel . In: Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt , Ortwin Pelc (Ed.): Schleswig-Holstein Lexikon . 2nd edition, Wachholtz, Neumünster, 2006.