Overledingerland
{{Short description|Historical region of East Frisia}}
{{Infobox Former Subdivision
| conventional_long_name = Overledingerland
| common_name = Overledingerland
| subdivision = Medieval sealand
| year_start = 13th century
| year_end = 1464
| p1 = Emsgau
| s1 = County of East Frisia
| flag_s1 = Cirksena 1625.svg
| image_map = 300px
| image_map_caption = Overledingerland (yellow), within the Seven Sealands (white) around 1300
| capital = Backemoor
| today = Germany
}}
The Overledingerland (also Overledingen, Oberledingerland or Oberledingen) is a historical district in southern East Frisia and forms the southeastern part of the Leer district. The name means nothing other than "Land across the Leda",Heinrich Stürenburg: Die Bezeichnung der Flussufer bei Griechen und Römern. In: Festschrift der 44. Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmänner. Dresden 1897, S. 3. i.e. south of the Leda river. In the west, the Ems borders the region.Ubbo Emmius: Friesische Geschichte Bd. 1 Aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt von. Hrsg.: Erich von Reeken. Wörner, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-88782-000-2.
History
The Overledingerland is one of the four historical districts on the mainland of today's Leer district. In the early Middle Ages it belonged to the Carolingian Emsgau,Hajo van Lengen (Hrsg.): Die Friesische Freiheit des Mittelalters - Leben und Legende, Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 2003, S. 70, ISBN 3-932206-30-4 but after the foreign counts were expelled, it was able to establish itself as an independent Frisian regional community in the 13th century.Karl von Richthofen: Untersuchungen zur friesischen Rechtsgeschichte, Band 2, Teilband 1. Wilhelm Hertz, Berlin 1882, darin Kapitel 4: Die sieben friesischen Seelande, S. 134, mit ausführlichen Zitaten der friesischen Quellen ([http://images.tresoar.nl/wumkes/pdf/RichthofenKvon_UntersuchungenRechtsgeschichte_2_1.pdf Digitalisat])Hajo van Lengen, Rainer Driever, Willem Kuppers, Emden; Aurich> Sonderausstellung Die Friesische Freiheit des Mittelalters. Leben & Legende <2003, Stiftung Johannes-a-Lasco-Bibliothek Grosse Kirche
It was probably divided into regional quarters, each of which sent four representatives to the Council of Sixteen of the Overledingerland, whose main meeting place was probably Backemoor.Hajo van Lengen, Rainer Driever, Willem Kuppers, Emden; Aurich> Sonderausstellung Die Friesische Freiheit des Mittelalters. Leben & Legende <2003, Stiftung Johannes-a-Lasco-Bibliothek Grosse Kirche
The independence ended in the 15th century with the rule of the city of Hamburg and the East Frisian chieftains.Hemmo Suur: Geschichte der Häuptlinge Ostfrieslands. Fr. Rakebrand: Aurich und Norden 1846. S. 37 f. A local central chieftaincy did not develop, only a few village chiefs were able to establish themselves. The district initially came under the rule of the tom Brok dynasty.Heinrich Schmidt: Politische Geschichte Ostfrieslands (Ostfriesland im Schutze des Deiches; Band 5), Pewsum 1975. S. 83 After their decline, it fell to Focko Ukena and in his wake to the Cirksena.Dirk Jan Henstra: The evolution of the money standard in medieval Frisia : a treatise on the history of the systems of money of account in the former Frisia (c.600-c.1500). D.J. Henstra, Groningen 2000, ISBN 90-367-1202-5, S. 194. With the end of the chieftainship, the Overledingerland became part of the County of East Frisia in 1464.
See also
References
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