Brettachgau

The Brettachgau was a medieval county that included the area of ​​the Kocher tributary Brettach in the north of today's Baden-Württemberg . Places in the Gau were u. a. Baumerlenbach , Beutingen (now part of Langenbrettach ), Helmbund (in what is now Neuenstadt am Kocher ), Möglingen and Wächlingen (now Ohrnberg ). A count family lived in the Brettachgau.

literature

• Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .