Venkigau
The Venkigau (also Fenkiongau or Fenkingau ) comprised a tribally closed Celtic / Germanic settlement area, which was mainly east of the Ems and southeast of today's city of Lingen . This had its own jurisdiction, the Gogericht , which was located in Friduren (today Freren ).
origin of the name
The term Venkigau (or Fenkingau) is made up of the defining word: kelt. Fenkin (German: small millet ) or possibly also Vehn , Fehne (German: moor, peat ) and the basic word: Gouwe, Gouwi, Gau (German: landscape ) together.
history
Abbot Gerbert Castus led to 800 n. Chr. Of Visbek from the Christianization of Saxony u. a. in Venkigau. The parish church in Freren was founded by Visbeck missionaries. Before that, from 780 AD, Charlemagne (* probably April 2, 747 or 748; † January 28, 814 in Aachen) had erected mission centers for the Christianization of the subject Saxons , of which the "cellula fiscbechi" (Visbek) were loud Document of Louis the Pious from September 1, 819 formed one. However, this document is now regarded as a total forgery from the late 10th century. From the year 855 at the latest, the Venkigau mission district came under the control of the Corvey monastery through a donation from Ludwig the German .
Scope of the Venkigaus
The Venkigau extended mainly east of the Ems, in the south from Listrup to the Great Holy Sea near Recke. In the north, Venki bordered the Gau Agradin and the Hasegau , in the west, on the western side of the Ems, was the Gau Bursibant , in the east the Varngau . The extent of the Venkigau was essentially limited by the surrounding swamp areas. The localities belonging to Venkigau are mentioned in the records of Werden Abbey , which date back to the 9th century:
- 835 brasses
- 836 Thuine
- 890 Ahlde , Beesten , Feilbexten , Gersten , Heitel , Hestrup , Hummeldorf , Hüvede , Langen , Listrup , Plantlünne , Schapen , Spelle , Varenrode
- 891 Freren , Lengerich
- 1000 Baccum , Bramsche , Estringen , Hange , Münnigbüren , Settlage , Sudderwehe , Suttrup , Wilsten
- 1150 Mundersum , Polle , Sommeringen ,
- 1188 Barel , Espel
975 Lingen , 1000 Bramhar , 1150 Altenlingen also belonged to the Venkigau. It is currently not entirely clear whether there was also a tribute obligation after Werden or Corvey . However, according to the investigation by Sebastian Kreyenschulte, the Vinkigau is a myth created by scholars that does not stand up to a source-critical investigation, so that this Gau did not even exist in the Saxon period and in early Franconian times.
literature
- Hermann Abels - The place names of the Emsland, in their linguistic and cultural-historical significance , Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1929
- Teachers' Association of the Diocese of Osnabrück - The District of Lingen. Contributions to local studies in the Osnabrück administrative district, volume I , R. van Acken publishing house, Lingen / Ems 1905
- Werner Kaemling - Atlas on the history of Lower Saxony , Gerd J. Holtzmeyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-923722-44-3
- Sebastian Kreyenschulte - The "Old Saxon Gaue" - a scholarly myth : The deconstruction of the "Venkigau" in the southern Emsland , in: Emsländische Geschichte 20 (2013), pp. 520-539.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kölzer, Theo: The documents of Ludwig the Pious for Halberstadt (BM2 535) and Visbek (BM2 702) - a serious misunderstanding , in: Archiv für Diplomatik 58 (2012) pp. 103–123 (here: pp. 119–121) .
- ^ Oldenburg official district . Retrieved October 15, 2013.
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