Auelgau

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Cologne and its neighboring districts (borders to Gillgau and Mühlgau are unclear)

The Auelgau (also Avalgau ) is a geographical name for a medieval administrative district in the area of ​​today's Rhein-Sieg district and beyond (e.g. Hamm ).

Naming

A floodplain is now a wet meadow in the Rhein-Sieg district and in southern Germany (cf. Flussaue ). The word comes from Germanic and is based on the Indo-European original language and the like. a. related to the Latin aqua ("water"). The Au or the Auel is accordingly an island or water-rich land. In old documents, auwel is often written because the w was used in a semi-vowel similar to u .

Documentary mention

History of Auelgau as an area for the first time was 722/723 as aualgawe mentioned, as in Bonner tradition Code of cassele is talk. It was mentioned a second time in 832 when it was donated to the Cassiusstift in Bonn, in which Rheidt is mentioned as being there.

county

In 948 a county of Auelgau was associated with a ruler's name for the first time: Count Hermann . He was a loyal king to the king. The areas of imperial estates and spots of ecclesiastical possessions were excluded from the dominion.

996 was named Count Palatine Hermann Pusillus , who administered old Lorraine from Aachen during the rule of the Ottonians . Hermann also supervised the county of Auelgau and took his seat on the Michaelsberg here .

Count Palatine Hermann bequeathed the Auelgau area to his son Ezzo, the founder of the Ezzone family . Ezzo also administered the Bonngau and the Ruhrgau . His brother Hezelin, which is also derived from Heinrich, received the Zülpichgau and probably the Eifelgau .

Since Ezzo's sons held other positions, the Auelgau went to Heinrich, a son of Hezelin, after his death. Ezzo's son Hermann, as Archbishop of Cologne, had transferred the important Tomburg near Rheinbach and the Brauweiler Abbey to the Archbishopric of Cologne. His successor, Archbishop Anno of Cologne , then acquired further goods from the Ezzone. As a result, a war broke out between the archbishop and the Ezzonen, which ultimately ended with the transfer of ownership of Michaelsberg to the archbishopric. This converted the rival castle into a monastery in 1066 .

Counts in Auelgau from the Ezzonen family

  • Hermann I., 922/948 Count in Auelgau
  • Eberhard II, 953 Count im Auelgau, † 966, his son
  • Gottfried, Count in the Auelgau in 966/970, his brother
  • Hermann Pusillus , 996 Graf im Auelgau, † 996, nephew of Hermann I.
  • Ezzo (Erenfried) , † 1034, son of Hermann Pusillus

successor

According to a document from the Siegburg Abbey of 1139, the legal successors of the Ezzone were the Counts of Sayn, who had previously been pushed to the south . In 1182 they were already mentioned as counts in the Neuss comparison . The archbishopric was dominant. After the death of Heinrich III. From Sayn the Auelgau was ruled by the lordships of Blankenberg and Löwenburg , which gradually fell to the Counts of Berg .

The term Auelgau was later reused for a roughly congruent area of ​​church administration.

location

The distribution of the place names Au and Auel in the Rhein-Sieg district

In addition to the mentioned settlement names in the estuary of the Sieg , the earlier borders cannot be determined, as there was a lot of free settlement space. To the west lay the Rhine with Bonngau , to the south the Engersgau , east Saxon settlement area, northwest the Deutzgau , further northeast the Westfalengau .

Rhein-Sieg district

The name Auel or Au for short is still often used in the Rhein-Sieg district as a place or street name, mostly on the Sieg and the Agger :

  • City of Hennef : Aue, Siegaue, Auel, Oberauel, Bülgenauel an der Sieg
  • City of Lohmar : Auelsweg in Lohmar, Gut Rosauel, Rosaueler Weg, Aueler Hof and Schloß Auel an der Agger in Wahlscheid , Aggeraueler Weg and Tournisauel in Agger, Krebsauel and Krebsaueler Straße as well as Schachenauel and Schachenaueler Straße in Neuhonrath, Ingersauel and Ingersaueler Mühle am Naafbach as well Auenweg in Birk
  • City of Siegburg : the districts of Aulgasse (leading to Agger) and Kaldauen (on the Sieg)
  • Eitorf municipality : Schützenau, Lützgenauel, Bourauel and Im Auel an der Sieg
  • Municipality Much : Bernsaueler Berg am Wahnbach
  • Municipality Neunkirchen-Seelscheid : the district Ingersau at the Bröl
  • Ruppichteroth municipality : Ingersaueler Hof an der Bröl
  • Community of Windeck : Sonnenau, In der Au, Im Äulchen, Zum Krummauel, Mauel, Obernau, Gansau, Au and Opperzau

North

  • City of Overath : Wiesenauel, Im Auel and the district of Bernsau an der Agger

East

In the community of Hamm , which is adjacent to the Rhein-Sieg district, there are the place names Oppertsau an der Sieg, Herrgottsau and Nisterau an der Nister .

swell

P. Gabriel Busch: Chapel wreath around the Michaelsberg , Verlag Abtei Michaelsberg , 1985

Individual evidence

  1. gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de