Stormarn (gau)

Stormarn (German pronunciation:

Northern Albingian Saxon gaus.^[1]

The Gau of Stormarn lay in the southeast of

Segeberg and the present land of the Hanseatic city of Hamburg north of the Elbe. The "Stormarni" were recorded in documents from the 11th century, like the Hamburg Church History (Hamburgische Kirchengeschichte) by Adam of Bremen

. The document refers to the Stormarni as one of the Saxon tribes.

References

^ Lemmata Gau u. Gauviertel. In: Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt, Ortwin Pelc (eds.): Schleswig-Holstein Lexikon. 2nd edition, Wachholtz, Neumünster, 2006.

[1] Lemmata Gau u. Gauviertel. In: Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt, Ortwin Pelc (eds.): Schleswig-Holstein Lexikon. 2nd edition, Wachholtz, Neumünster, 2006.

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