Engersgau

The Engersgau was a medieval Frankish Gaugrafschaft the Middle Rhine and was 733 in the Lorsch codex first mentioned.

The Engersgau bordered in the north on the Ripuarian landscapes Ahrgau and Auelgau on the Sieg . From today's Kasbach-Ohlenberg (south of the state border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate ) the border of the watershed between Sieg and Wied followed to the Wiedquelle, jumped over to the Gelbachquelle and followed this brook to the confluence with the Lahn near Langenau. Lahn and Rhine enclosed the Gau to the south and west.

The name of the Gaus was derived from its main town, the former town of Engers , which has been part of Neuwied since 1970 . Their name in turn probably goes back to the Old High German word Angar, which means something like "free level". The vowel alternations are due to the effects of the primary umlaut as well as to the consequences of the final syllable weakening: ahd. Angar > ahd. Anger > mhd. Narrower . In Middle High German, the term Anger still refers to a village meadow owned by the municipality and suggests the rural basis of the settlement of Engers.

Counts were:

Heribert von der Wetterau (* 925 ; † 992 ) from the family of the Konradines
his son Otto von Hammerstein (* around 975 , † probably June 5, 1036), 1016 count in the Wetterau , 1019 count in Engersgau (Konradiner)
his nephew Wigger von Nassau (* around 968-1054) 1034-1044 Graff in Engersgau
his son Arnold von Nassau (* around 1022, after 1044 Graff in Engersgau)
Metfried (around 1129), Count in Engersgau, later called Metfried von Wied , founder of Altwied Castle

The Gaugrafen called themselves from 1129 Count von Wied . A smaller part of the Engersgau became part of its county and the larger part was owned by the Electorate of Trier on the right bank of the Rhine .

See also:

List of medieval districts

Individual evidence

↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 3604, June 24, 773 - Reg. 097. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 226 , accessed on March 15, 2016 .
↑ 1034: "Nassauua" (Nassau) "in pago Loganehe in comitatu Wiggeri et Arnoldi comitum". 1044: "curtes Overanbergh et Liutwinesdorf sitas in pago Angeresgauwe et in comitatu Wittechindi comitis." Schannat, JF (1734) Historiæ Episcopatus Wormatiensis, Tome II, Codex Probationem (Frankfurt) ("Worms Codex (1734) Tome II"), LV, p. 51.

[1] Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 3604, June 24, 773 - Reg. 097. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 226 , accessed on March 15, 2016 .

[2] 1034: "Nassauua" (Nassau) "in pago Loganehe in comitatu Wiggeri et Arnoldi comitum". 1044: "curtes Overanbergh et Liutwinesdorf sitas in pago Angeresgauwe et in comitatu Wittechindi comitis." Schannat, JF (1734) Historiæ Episcopatus Wormatiensis, Tome II, Codex Probationem (Frankfurt) ("Worms Codex (1734) Tome II"), LV, p. 51.