Hassegau

The Hassegau (also Hassago ) at Altstedt is the area between the towns of Mansfeld, Naumburg, Hall and Wettin and belonged to hersfeldischen mission area.

A widely held derivation of the name of the mentioned several times in the middle of the 8th century Hoohseoburg ( " Hocseburg, Ocsioburg " ), which has long been equated with lying in Hassegau Castle Seeburg at the Sweet Lake, is very unlikely, especially those plant according to recent studies is to locate more on the Hünenburg on the Heeseberg at Watenstedt.

The northern Hassegau became the nucleus of the county of Mansfeld

On September 26, 949 King Otto I gave the request of his brother Henry and Count Ekkehard a portion of his property in Hassegau, located on the border of the diocese of Merseburg in the county of Count Theti, his vassal Hohstein and his wife Chintodruf for life under the condition of relapse to the royal family.

Count in Hassegau

  • Burchard III. Count in Hassegau ( Wettin )
  • Dedi I. † March 14 957, whose son, Count of Hassegau from 949
  • Siegfried, Count of Hassegau 961-980
  • Burchard ( IV ), son Dedis I, Count in Hassegau and Liesgau, July 13 X 982 ( at Cotrone )
  • Dedi II, whose brother, Count of Hassegau, July 13 X 982 ( at Cotrone )
  • Ricbert, father brother of Bruno of cross- ford, Count of Hassegau to 1009,
  • Burchard I of Goseck, † November 3, 1017, Count Palatine of Saxony, Count of Goseck, Count of Hassegau 991-1017
  • Hermann I (nephew of Gunzelin of Kuckenburg ) † 1038, 1007 Count in Bautzen, 1009 Margrave of Meissen, 1028 Count in Hassegau and Gau Chutizi ( Ekkehardiner ); ∞ summer 1002 regulations Linda, * 989, † after March 21, 1016, daughter of Boleslav I the Brave, 992 Prince 1025 and King of Poland ( Piast )
  • Dietrich I, † murdered November 19, 1034, 1017 Count in a hurry Castle, 1021 Earl in Hassegau, Margrave of Lusatia; ∞ Mathilde, sister of the Margrave Ekkehard of Meissen I.
  • Siegfried, † 1038, Count of Hassegau and Meneberg, grandson Burchard ( IV )
  • Frederick I of Goseck, † 1042, Count Palatine of Saxony, Count of Goseck, Count of Merseburg, Count of Hassegau
  • Hoyer of Mansfeld, Count of Hassegau is mentioned in 1050, the first Mansfeld name.

Villages in Hassegau (selection)

Wettin, Saxony-Anhalt Henry I, Duke of Bavaria Bishopric of Merseburg Crotone Theodoric II, Margrave of Lower Lusatia Bruno of Querfurt Piast dynasty Eilenburg Burgsdorf Neehausen
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