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Dreingau
Dreingau is the medieval name of one of five Saxon pagi (i.e., boroughs) in what today is the Münsterland in Westphalia. During the Middle Ages documents referred to it as ''Dreine'', ''Dreni'', ''Drieni'', ''Dragini'', ''Dragieni'', ''Drachina'' or ''Treine''.〔Soekelland B: Ueber die Straßen der Römer und Franken zwischen der Ems und Lippe. Münster, 1825 (Google Books )〕 The name came into use around the year 800, and is hardly used anymore today. It has survived only in the name of the town Drensteinfurt, and in the name of a regional newspaper, the ''Dreingau-Zeitung''.
==Location==
The origins of the name Dreingau are disputed; it might derive either from a medieval term denoting a "fertile land," or might describe a "dry land". Considering that the Saxon pagi still held extensive marshlands at this time, both interpretations might well be equivalent.
Although the sources are frequently inconsistent or ambiguous in assigning various places to the Dreingau, the consensus is that the ''pagus'' was of roughly triangular shape, with the Lippe between Lippstadt and Lünen forming the southern border, and with the city of Greven as the anchor point in the North. Close to the Lippe river was the large forest ''Ihtari'' (later known as ''Ihteri'' and then ''Ichtern''). South of the Dreingau was the ''pagus'' Bracbant, home to tribes of the Bructeri; to the West was Bursibant around Rheine; other neighboring areas were the Skopingau centered on Schöppingen, and the Stevergau around Coesfeld.
Notable places mentioned in medieval documents in the context of the Dreingau include the village ''Wernina'' (now Werne), ''Seliheim'' (now Selm), and Liesborn Abbey but interestingly there is little mention of Münster.
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