Wurtsaten

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Wurtsaten (also Wurtsassen , Wursaten ; sometimes as the plural of Wursten ) is a historical landscape in the Lower Saxony Elbe-Weser triangle and the name of the population group there.

Before the dikes were built , the Old Saxons and Frisians lived in the Weser marshes for around a millennium on artificially constructed mounds of earth, the Wurten . These were created by coastal Saxons around the 1st to 5th centuries from clay , dung and stones.

The name Wurtsaten or Wurstfriesen, as the inhabitants of the coast between the mouths of the Weser and Elbe were later called, is said to come from the Frisian terms Werf, Virr or Verre for such raised hills.

Archaeological research on the Feddersen Wierde and the Fallward gave a clear picture of life in the marshes . In Hadeln , the Old Saxons settled on numerous "Worthen" near the banks of the Elbe . They were farmers, artisans and fishermen and also hired themselves out as mercenaries in the Roman army.

After the coastal Saxons emigrated to Britain via the North Sea , the Wurten and Worthe remained deserted for centuries. From 700 AD the Frisians who immigrated from the west took over this role and settled the higher marshes in the Wursten region . Finally, in the 12th century, the rural Frisians erected the " Güldene Band " of the dykes. The designation "Wurtsatia" - that is, those on the "Wurten Sitzenden" - has been used by the Frisians at the mouth of the Weser since the Middle Ages as a landscape designation.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ August Heinrich Petermann: Mittheilungen from Justus Perthes Geographischer Anstalt about important new researches . On the whole of geography. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1861, p. 148 ( Google Books ).
  2. ↑ Johann Friedrich Schütze: Holsteinisches Idiotikon . a contribution to the history of folk customs. third part. Heinrich Ludwig Villaume, Hamburg 1802 ( google books ).
  3. ^ Karl Adolf Menzel : The stories of the Germans . Third volume., Fifth book and sixth book, first section. Graß, Barth and Comp, 1818, p. 436 ( google books ).