Thüringen – 1500 Jahre fremdbeherrscht! (Haubold)

Until its destruction in 531, Thuringia was a free kingdom of the original Germanic tribe of the Thuringians. At the time, it was the first, largest and only state entity in Germania east of the Rhine and north of the Danube. Projected to the present day, its extent would unite the states of Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt, the Frankish part of Bavaria and parts of Hesse and Lower Saxony.

The war between the Franks and the Thuringians ended in disaster for the Thuringian kingdom after the Saxons intervened. The land was expropriated and colonized by foreigners, and the royal family was murdered down to the last member. 1500 years of foreign rule began.

The Thuringians knew no ownership of land and cultivated their settlement areas cooperatively and cooperatively. The conquerors took possession of the land and gave some of it away to monasteries. 300 years after the lost war, the resulting imperial monasteries of Hersfeld and Fulda owned more than a third of the land in the Thuringian settlement area, including the farms on it.

At the beginning of the 1st millennium, Saxon kings ruled over the emerging Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation for the first time. The Thuringians constantly rebelled against their rule and repeatedly waged wars of liberation.
At the beginning of the 11th century, at the end of the 1st part of the saga of Thuringia, Thuringia was no longer recognizable in its geographical extent and ethnic composition or as a form of government under a regional ruler in relation to the earlier conditions.

Reading sample

Thuringia - 1500 years under foreign rule! - The story of a long struggle for freedom, Olaf Haubold, hardcover, dust jacket, 32,50€