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The Duchy of Saxony around the year 1000
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Wigmodi (also: Wigmodien, Wigmodia, Wimodi ) was a Saxon Gau . It was on the Weser north of Bremen .
The exact extent of Wigmodia, sometimes referred to as a province, sometimes as a pagus (Gau) , is not entirely clear and may have changed over time.
history
The Moissac Chronicle and the Metz Annals already mention a Saxon area with the name Wihmuodi for the year 804. At the time of the missionary work by Willehad , Wigmodien was evidently equated with the entire Elbe-Weser triangle , partly including other areas north of the Elbe , for example Dithmarschen . According to the Vita Sancti Ansgarii , also written in the 9th century, after Widukind's baptism, the Saxon land was divided into eight dioceses. The northernmost of them, the Sprengel Bremen , consisted of two "provinces" that were originally merged from ten Saxon districts: Wigmodien north and east of the mouth of the Weser , and the Lorgoe south-west of it.
In contrast, the alleged founding document of the Diocese of Bremen is certainly a forgery from the years 1148–50. But the boundaries of Wigmodien stated therein could be correct: the North Sea , the Niederelbe to the confluence of the Lühe or the Aue , several small watercourses and swamps between Harsefeld and Bevern (e.g. the Steinbek, and the upper reaches of the Twiste ), then the Bever and the Oste south of Bremervörde , and another moor between the Oste and Wümme . From the mouth of the Wieste the border apparently ran along a road to a forest near Daverden , from there along the Weser back to the North Sea.
In King Heinrich IV's deed of gift about the Lesum court and its possessions to Archbishop Adalbert von Bremen from 1062, the Elbe-Weser triangle, in which these properties were distributed, is divided into Wigmodien (as the apparently western part) and the comitatus marchionis Udonis (the county of Margrave Udo) , d. H. the county of Harsefeld / Stade , as the northeastern part.
In the 1070s, Adam von Bremen used in his Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum for the northernmost part of Saxony (apart from northern Albingia) the name Hadeloha, as well as the place Hadoloha , as a landing place for enemy Vikings ("Ascomans") in the years 994 and 1040 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ RI I n. 406g, in: Regesta Imperii Online
- ↑ Eckhard Danneberg, Heinz-Joachim Schulze (ed.): History of the country between Elbe and Weser . Volume II Middle Ages . Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden, Stade 1995, ISBN 3-9801919-8-2 , p. 31 and footnote 27
- ↑ Historical sources of the German Middle Ages, Vita Anskarii
- ↑ Bremer Urkundenbuch, Vol. I. No. 21 of June 27, 1062
- ↑ Hamburg Church History I, 11 on Wikisource
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