Eifelgau

The Eifelgau was a Franconian district in the area of today's Kalkeifel .

The cross-border mountainous region of the Ardennes and the Eifel, bounded by the Maas, Semois, Moselle and Rhine.

Arduenna silva between Meuse and Rhine around 200 AD

The medieval districts around 1000

Location and history

The Eifelgau got its name from the Eifel Mountains between the Rhine , Ahr , Rur , Our , Sauer and Mosel . It comprised the headwaters of Erft , Urft , Kyll and Ahr, so it was mainly in the northern and northwestern foothills of the Eifel. The Gau was part of Lower Lorraine and belonged to Ripuarien . It corresponded geographically to the "Eifeldecanat" of the "Cologne district".

In the 11th century, the districts lost their political importance.

Counts

Albuin († after 898), Count of the Eifelgau
Erenfried († around 969), Count of the Eifelgau
Hermann († 996), Count in the Eifelgau
Ezzo († 1064), Count in the Eifelgau
Heinrich († around 1061), Count in Zülpich-Eifelgau
Theoderich († around 1086), Count in Zülpich-Eifelgau
Gottfried von Cappenberg († 1127)

Places in the Eifelgau

Ahrdorf , Antweiler , Aremberg , Arloff , Baasem , Bad Münstereifel , Barweiler , Betteldorf , Bewingen , Bouderath , Buir , Dahlem , Engelgau , Frohngau , Gilsdorf , Hillesheim , Holzmülheim , Insul , Iversheim , Kerpen , Kesseling , Lammersdorf , Lessenich , Leudersdorf , Lindweiler , Lommersdorf , Marmagen , Müsch , Nettersheim , Nohn , Oberbettingen , Pesch , Prüm , Reifferscheid , Ripsdorf , Roderath , Satzvey , Schmidtheim , Schuld , Sellerich , Steffeln , Tondorf , Üxheim , Weyer , Wiesbaum and Zingsheim .

Adjacent districts

Zülpichgau ( old district of Euskirchen )
Bidgau (area around Bitburg )
Ardennengau (area around Malmedy )
Mayenfeldgau (Eastern Eifel)
Ripuariergau ( Rheinbach / Münstereifel )
Ahrgau

literature

Hermann Aubin : Historical Atlas of the Rhineland . Cologne 1926.
Eifelverein: The Eifel 1888–1988. P. 33 ff., ISBN 3-921805-17-1 .
Gerhardt Kentenich: On the city and district constitution in the early Middle Ages . In: Rheinische Vierteljahresblätter . 1932.
Historical Atlas of the Rhineland . 7. Delivery, IV.9: The medieval districts. 2000, 1 map sheet, 1 booklet, edited by Thomas Bauer, ISBN 3-7927-1818-9 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Heinrich Beyer, Leopold Eltester, Adam Goerz (Berab.): Document book for the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier . Second volume. From the year 1169 to 1212. J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1865, p. XXIII f . ( Digitized in Google Book Search [accessed December 22, 2016]).
↑ Hermann Aubin: Historical Atlas of the Rhineland. Cologne 1926, No. 7.
↑ Heinrich Beyer u. a .: Middle Rhine document book Koblenz 1860, pp. XVIII ff

[Urkundb-1] Heinrich Beyer, Leopold Eltester, Adam Goerz (Berab.): Document book for the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier . Second volume. From the year 1169 to 1212. J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1865, p. XXIII f . ( Digitized in Google Book Search [accessed December 22, 2016]).

[2] Hermann Aubin: Historical Atlas of the Rhineland. Cologne 1926, No. 7.

[3] Heinrich Beyer u. a .: Middle Rhine document book Koblenz 1860, pp. XVIII ff