Liesgau

The Liesgau was mentioned several times in the ninth to 11th centuries in deeds. He lay on the north - west side of the resin in the present-day southern Lower Saxony. Its boundaries are approximately described as: north-south orientation of Mönchehof to Duderstadt. East-west orientation of Steina to Sebexen. He is the 1945 been incorporated from the former county county Hohenstein coincide approximately with the present-day district of Osterode am Harz without the towns of Bad Sachsa and Tettenborn. Plus the former Old Office Westerhof, which still belonged to the district of Osterode to 1977, and the locations of the rest of the district of Blankenburg Neuhof, Walk Ried, Wieda and Zorge which were added after the 1972 local government reorganization. For Gau heard in the North West as part of the field of Rittigau.

Count

  • Burchard IV in Hassegau
  • Victory Beard, brother of Dietrich (Pfalz Sachsen)
  • Henry III. , ( Udonen )
  • Udo von Katlenburg
  • Dietrich I of Katlenburg

Swell

  • The East Frankish king Arnulf of Carinthia invested Adalgar, the Gaugrafen of Lisgau with the places Kalefeld and Wulften. Deed 55 of 6 July 889: Paul Kehr (ed.): Diplomata 10: Charters Arnolfs ( Arnolfi Diplomata ). Berlin 1940, p 79 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized )
  • Deed of King Otto III. , Including 60 hooves country in Foresazi ( Förste ) located in Lisgau. Deed 67: Theodor Sickel (ed.): Diplomata 13: Charters of Otto II and Otto III of. ( Ottonis II et III Ottonis. Diplomata ). Hannover 1893, p 474 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized version ) The original is in the State Archives Wolfenbüttel.
  • Erhard Kühlhorn: Historical and Regional studies Excursion Map of Lower Saxony - explanatory booklet, 1970
  • Karl Spruner, Theodor Menke: Hand - Atlas of the History of the Middle Ages and modern times, 1880, Liesgau on map sheet 33
  • Gau (Lower Saxony)
  • Geography (Lower Saxony)
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