The Friesenfeld was a

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, in modern-day north

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and south

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in the area between

Allstedt Allstedt () is a town in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated approximatively 10 km southeast of Sangerhausen. History Allstedt is mentioned as the tithable place ''Altstedi'' in Friesenfeld in the ...

and

Merseburg Merseburg () is a town in central Germany in southern Saxony-Anhalt, situated on the river Saale, and approximately 14 km south of Halle (Saale) and 30 km west of Leipzig. It is the capital of the Saalekreis district. It had a diocese ...

and which bordered

Hassegau

The Hassegau was a medieval shire (''Gau (territory), Gau'') ...

. Numerous places in Friesenfeld such as Erdeborn were named in the

Hersfeld Tithe Register The Hersfeld Tithe Register (German: ''Hersfelder Zehntverzeichnis'') is a list of the places and castles in the Friesenfeld Gau (territory) and in Hassegau, from which Hersfeld Abbey received tithes. The original document dates from between 881 ...

of the

Hersfeld Abbey Hersfeld Abbey was an important Benedictine imperial abbey in the town of Bad Hersfeld in Hesse (formerly in Hesse-Nassau), Germany, at the confluence of the rivers Geisa, Haune and Fulda. The ruins are now a medieval festival venue. History ...

as being obliged to pay tithes. The territory was named after

Frisians The Frisians () are an ethnic group indigenous to the German Bight, coastal regions of the Netherlands, north-western Germany and southern Denmark. They inhabit an area known as Frisia and are concentrated in the Dutch provinces of Friesland an ...

who settled the area as colonists.

Literature

* August von Wersebe: ''Beschreibung der Gaue zwischen Elbe, Saale und Unstrut, Weser und Werra: Mit einer Karte'', 1829, S. 96 f
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* Georg Landau: ''Beiträge zur Beschreibung der Gaue Frisenfeld und Hassegau'', In: ''Allgemeines Archiv für die Geschichtskunde des preussischen Staates'', Band 12, 183
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*

Hermann Größler Hermann or Herrmann may refer to: * Hermann (name), list of people with this name * Arminius, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe in the 1st century, known as Hermann in the German language * Éditions Hermann, French publisher * Hermann, Mis ...

: ''Der gemeinsame Umfang der Gaue Friesenfeld und Hassegau'', in: Zeitschrift des Harzvereins VI (1873) * Allgemeines Archiv für die Geschichtskunde des preussischen Staates, Band 3
S.44f

Seh also

Former states and territories of Thuringia Former states and territories of Saxony-Anhalt