Bohemian mark

The Bohemian Mark (also marchia bohemica ) was an earlier assumed short-lived historical area in the Middle Ages in the area of today's Lower Austria .

The Bohemian Mark is said to have covered the area from Hardegg an der Thaya in the west to the Pollauer Mountains and the Falkenstein Mountains in the east. In the south, its border is said to have been formed by the mountains north of Sitzendorf , Hollabrunn , Gnadendorf and Mistelbach .

According to Friedrich Stein , the Bohemian Mark or the Margraviate against Bohemia is said to have been mentioned several times in connection with the Counts of Schweinfurt. A “marchia bohemica” is historically documented only once as a gift to a Haderich in 1055.

Today the Bohemian Mark is seen as a construction by scholars of the 19th and 20th centuries, its existence is considered refuted.

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Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Max Spindler (founder), Andreas Kraus (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian history. Volume 1: Old Bavaria. The tribal duchy until the end of the 12th century. 2nd, revised edition. Beck, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-406-07322-0 , p. 316 .
^ Friedrich Stein: The margravial house of Schweinfurt. In: Archives of the Historical Association of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg. Vol. 42, 1900, ISSN 0178-9740 , pp. 11-56, here pp. 13, 40 and 42.
↑ Christian Lackner : The countries and the empire (907-1278). In: Thomas Winkelbauer (Ed.): History of Austria . 3rd updated and expanded edition, Reclam, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-15-011088-1 , p. 70.

[SpindlerKraus-1] Max Spindler (founder), Andreas Kraus (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian history. Volume 1: Old Bavaria. The tribal duchy until the end of the 12th century. 2nd, revised edition. Beck, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-406-07322-0 , p. 316 .

[2] Friedrich Stein: The margravial house of Schweinfurt. In: Archives of the Historical Association of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg. Vol. 42, 1900, ISSN 0178-9740 , pp. 11-56, here pp. 13, 40 and 42.

[3] Christian Lackner : The countries and the empire (907-1278). In: Thomas Winkelbauer (Ed.): History of Austria . 3rd updated and expanded edition, Reclam, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-15-011088-1 , p. 70.