Franconian conquest
In historiography, the Franconian land acquisition is the name given to the colonization of areas in today's Germany (mainly in the Rhine-Main-Danube region) by the Franks in the period from the 5th to the 8th century. For this area, it marks the end of the migration period , since politically and socially stable systems are re-emerging in the construction of this great empire.
This conquest of the land began with the victory of the Merovingian Clovis I over the Alamanni around AD 496 ( Battle of Zülpich ).
The conquest of the land was associated with an expansion of Frankish rule to the east; the Franconian Empire was now divided into Neustria (the West Franconia , which can be largely identified with today's France), Austrasia or Austria (the East Franconia , which included a large part of today's Germany, but initially without Saxony and Bavaria / Austria, instead but Alsace-Lorraine) and Burgundy, which, however, was constantly striving to maintain its independence.
The row grave fields and the related founding of many places with the ending -heim , -hausen / -husen, -rod , -ingen and -weiler / -wiler are characteristic of the Franconian land acquisition . After 780 AD, no new foundations with this ending can be proven. The row grave fields are also no longer occupied. It can be assumed that the funerals have now been moved to the churches in the places concerned.
literature
- Wilhelm Arnold : Settlements and migrations of German tribes. Mostly according to Hessian place names. Elwert, Marburg 1875 (Unchanged reprint, obtained from Ludwig Erich Schmitt. (= Sources and representations in reprints. Vol. 4). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1983, ISBN 3-412-07483-7 ).
- Franz Petri (ed.): Settlement, language and population structure in the Franconian Empire (= ways of research . Vol. 49). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1973, ISBN 3-534-02750-7 .
- Karl S. Bader , Gerhard Dilcher : German legal history. Country and city - citizens and farmers in ancient Europe . Springer, Berlin a. a. 1999, ISBN 978-3-642-63677-6 , 1st part legal history of the rural settlement chap. B Land grabbing and rural settlement , p. 17–62 (legal and socio-historical description of the conquests in Germany from the early days to the Middle Ages).