sentences:  The settlement of "Mimilebo" was already mentioned in an urbarium register of Hersfeld Abbey under the rule of Archbishop Lullus of Mainz (died 786).A Hersfeld tithe register, compiled between 881 and 899, again documents the locality of "Mimileba" in the Saxon shire ("Gau") of "Friesenfeld", west of the Hassegau.Memleben acquired considerable importance under the Saxon dukes of the Ottonian dynasty about 900.