Wikanafeld
Wikanafeld (also Wikanavelde ) was a Saxon district in the Middle Ages and part of the Saxon province of Ostfalen .
The church in this Gau was Eschershausen . In addition, the villages of Holzen , Lüerdissen , Ölkassen and Scharfoldendorf as well as individual settlements that were later devastated were part of it. The area lies in a section of the Lenne valley that is open to the northwest and is framed by Hils , Ith , Vogler and Homburgwald .
history
Wikanafeld was only mentioned in one document, in a letter of protection from King Heinrich from November 2, 1004 for the Kemnade monastery . Therefore, this district is considered to be the lower district of the Gudingau, which is adjacent to the north . The parish of Eschershausen was assigned to the archdeaconate Wallensen , so that the Untergau belonged to the diocese of Hildesheim like this one.
Wikanafeld bordered in the south on the Mainzischen Suilbergau , in the southwest on the Paderbornischen Augau and in the northeast on the Hildesheimischen Aringo . In the northwest of the archdeaconry was Ohsen the diocese Minden belonging Tilithigau that in their day the Bill Unger dominated. At the same time they administered other districts, including Wikanafeld. After their extinction, the Counts of Northeim expanded their Rittigau to the west. With their extinction at the latest, the localities were no longer assigned to districts, but to counties.
The only castle in this Gau was a castle that was later expanded into Homburg .
literature
- Robert Rustenbach: The former Gau Wikanavelde . In: Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony, year 1900, pp. 207–248 ( digitized version )
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