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.

[1] The original document dates from between 881 and 887 or between 896 and 899, but no longer exists.

[2] The list is found in a transcript from the 11th Century, which is now in the Hessischen Staatsarchiv Marburg.

[4] Many modern placenames in the modern day German states of Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt can be connected with a corresponding name in the register.

[5] "Haec est Decimatio quae pertinet ad sanctum Wigberthvm in Frisonoveld" (This the tithe which belongs to the blessed Wigbert in Friesenfeld) [4] „Haec sunt urbes que cum viculis suis et omnibus locis ad se perti[nentibus] decimationes dare debent ad sanctum Wigberhdym ad Herolvesfeld“ (These are the castles with their farmsteads and all localities which must give tithes to the blessed Wigbert in Herodsfeld)