Eritgau

The map of the Duchy of Swabia shows the Eritgau

The Eritgau (also Ertgau or Heregau ) was a medieval district in what is now Baden-Württemberg . The Eritgau was located in northern Upper Swabia and stretched in the north-west to close to the banks of the Danube and to the east as far as the Westernach river and the Nördlinger Ries ; including the places Biberach , Buchau , Mengen , Saulgau , Waldsee , Aulendorf and Alberweiler .

Counts

• In the year 839, Count Konrad from the House of Welfs appeared as Count in the Eritgau.
• In 1004 Wolfrad von Altshausen became Count of Eritgau.

Web links

• Eritgau . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 5, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 821.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günther Bradler: Studies on the history of ministeriality in the Allgäu and in Upper Swabia. Göppingen 1973. page 77. [1]
2. ↑ Sebastian Locher: Regesten on the history of the counts of Veringen. Sigmaringen 1872. Page 4f.