Gartachgau

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The Gartachgau was an early to high medieval county in southwest Germany, the area of ​​which stretched along and north of the eponymous Gartach (today: Lein ).

The Gartachgau was first mentioned in 765. Its area essentially comprised the Gartach valley with the places Kleingartach , Niederhofen , Stetten am Heuchelberg , Schwaigern , Schluchtern , Großgartach , Frankenbach and Neckargartach as well as some places north of it such as Massenbach , Kirchhausen , Biberach , Obereisesheim and Untereisesheim , as well as that Böckingen to the south of it . In a document from 803 Nordheim is also counted as part of the Gartachgau, 826 also rooms ( women’s or drought rooms ). In the year 777, however, Eisesheim was already included in the Elsenzgau.

As a natural area, the Gartachgau was bordered to the north by Elsenzgau and Wingarteibagau , to the east by Neckargau , to the south by Zabergau and to the west by Kraichgau . From an administrative point of view, the Gartachgau has always belonged to the Elsenzgau, at times Gartach / Elsenzgau and Kraichgau were even managed by a single count.

The small Gartachgau presumably only comprised a single cent , the place of jurisdiction presumably being on the 240-meter-high steel bar northwest of Schluchtern . The Counts of Lauffen (in Großgartach and Eisesheim), the Counts of Calw (in Böckingen) and the Counts of Vaihingen (in Stetten) owned important goods within the Gartachgau .

With the political upheavals of the High Middle Ages and the associated change in regional forms of rule and ownership, the time of the counties and with it that of the documentary mentions of the Gartachgau ended.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hildebrandt 2008, pp. 54/55.

literature

  • The Gartachgau . In: Our Leintal - A home book from the Württemberger Unterland . Gauss-Verlag, Heilbronn 1951
  • Ludwig H. Hildebrandt: The counties of Elsenz and Kraichgau in the high Middle Ages, their counts and their castle seats with special consideration of Bretten , in: Brettener Jahrbuch NF 5, Bretten 2008, pp. 54–85.