Baar (history)

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Baar ( Old High German para or bara) is the name of one or more district (s) in the early medieval Alamannia , after which the Baar landscape was named. A Baar originally seems to have been a name for a manorial area, similar to the Gaue , without a precise distinction between a Gau, a Huntare and a Baar can be made. Originally there were two large bays, namely the Bertoldsbaar (also Westbaar, stretched over the Baar landscape) and the Ostbaar (around Obermarchtal ). These Baaren were divided into several smaller districts:

  • Bertoldsbaar ( Westbaar , first mention 763)
    • Adelhardsbaar (near Donaueschingen , so called from 769, probably after Count Adalhard, who administered the Adelhardsbaar between 763 and 775)
    • Grafschaft Scherra (at Scheer , so called since 854)
      County Scherra (outlined in green)
      • pagus Piritiloni (after Count Pirihtilo around 775), Pirihtilinbaar (also after Pirihtilo) and Purihdinga, which are called from 785 to 797 in the west of the Scherra
    • Nagoldgau (near Nagold , so called from around 780)
      • Waldgau
      • Westergau
    • Aitrachtal (near Geisingen , so called from 770)
    • Albuinsbaar (near Löffingen , so called from 851 after Tribun Albuin (around 770))
    • Baar (in the narrower sense around Rottweil , so called from 961)
  • Ostbaar ( Folcholtsbaar , united until around 830)
    • Appha (near Riedlingen , so called from 835)
    • Eritgau (near Ertingen , temporarily split in two, first mentioned 839)
    • Alaholfsbaar ( called 760 near Munderkingen ; 788 Albuinsbaar, later called Munterichshuntare)

The Baaren were initially administered by the Alaholfinger or Bertholde family , which was the case in the Ostbaar until the Alaholfinger died out in 973, while the Westbaar was already divided into the above-mentioned four parts around 770.

Ruler of the (West) Baar

This was followed by the Zähringer , whose center in the Baar was the Kürnburg near Unterbränd near Bräunlingen , after the death of Duke Berthold V of Zähringen , disputes followed, which Count Egino von Urach won → Prince von Fürstenberg

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