Folcholtsbaar

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The map of the Duchy of Swabia shows the Folcholtsbaar

The Folcholtsbaar (also Folcholtspara ) was a medieval district in what is now Baden-Württemberg .

The name Folcholtsbaar derives from one of their former rulers Folcholt from whose name also in today Ehinger district Volkersheim ( Folkotsheim received). Only a document from the year 805 mentions this Baar.

The following places are clearly assigned to the Folcholtsbaar in this document:

This document does not clearly explain whether the following places named as well (several of which also occur in other districts) belonged to Folcholtsbaar. This prevents the boundaries of this district from being clearly set:

In a document from the year 817, the following places appear grouped together with the undoubted Folcholtsbaarorten Emerkingen and Heidgau, but without a special dormer mark:

Counts

The Counts of Veringen were the Counts of the Folcholtsbaar in the 10th - 12th centuries.

literature

  • Michel Borgolte: History of the counties of Alemannia in Frankish times, 1984.
  • Sebastian Locher : Regesta on the history of the Counts of Veringen. 1872.
  • Christoph Friedrich Stälin: Wirtembergische history. 1841, volume I, page 294f. [1]

Individual evidence

  1. Sebastian Locher : Regesten on the history of the counts of Veringen. Sigmaringen 1872, page 4f.