Danube County

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The Danube county was a county of the Bavarian east country of the Carolingian period . It existed from 826/828 to around 907. Thereafter, the area was conquered by the Magyars .

The county extended from the Traungau over the Enns to the Raab . It bordered in the north on the Slavic Principality of Bohemia , in the northeast on Moravia , in the southeast on the County of Steinamanger , in the south on Carantania and in the west on the Nordgau ("Altbaiern"). After 822 the Avar principality began to dissolve. Parts of this principality were taken over by the Danube County after 828, the year the eastern region was reorganized by Emperor Ludwig the Pious . The first written mention of the county comes from the year 844 or 845. At that time the prefect of the Bavarian east country Ratpot administered the Danube county , which was already divided into sub- counties . The sub-county of Count Werner and later Gotafrid between Enns and Wienerwald is known . In Ratpot's time, Tulln was the political center of the county and the Traismauer church center.

Later Wilhelm II and later his heirs from the Wilhelminer family took over the county. In the course of the Carolingian family quarrels, after the deaths of the brothers Wilhelm II and Engelschalk I in the fight against the Moravian Count Aribo I, King Ludwig the German commissioned the management of the county. At the time of Margrave Arbo and his son Isanrih, Mautern on the Danube was probably the most important suburb of the county.

After the Battle of Pressburg , the Danube County had to be surrendered to the Magyars.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Herwig Wolfram: Salzburg, Bavaria, Austria. The Conversio Bagoarium et Carantanorum and the sources of their time , Verlag Oldenbourg, Vienna, Munich, Oldenbourg 1996
  2. ↑ RI I n. 1379 (First documented mention of the Danube County Ratpots) on the Regesta Imperii website
  3. ^ Anton Mayer: Yearbook for Regional Studies of Lower Austria, Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria, Vienna 1903
  4. ↑ Herwig Wolfram : Limits and Spaces. History of Austria before its creation. Austrian History 378-907 , Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-8000-3532-4
  5. ^ Karl Brunner: Duchies and brands. From the Hungarian storm to the 12th century , Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna, 1994, ISBN 3-8000-3521-9