Gillgau

Cologne and its neighboring districts (borders to Gillgau (left edge of the map) are unclear; Keldachgau is shown incorrectly)

The Gillgau (or Gilgau ) was a medieval Frankish Gaugrafschaft the Lower Rhine .

The Gillgau is the area northwest of Cologne between the Rhine and Erft . The Gillgau is derived from the Gillbach , which gave this Gau its name. It bordered on the Nievenheimer Gau or Neusser Gau and belonged to them in the early Middle Ages (around 800).

In the past, the Gillgau was wrongly equated by Wirtz (1913/14) with the Keldachgau , also on the left bank of the Rhine, but further north , actually Gilde- or Keldagau. Ewig (1954), Rotthoff (1974) and Nonn (1983) contradicted this .

literature

• Historical Atlas of the Rhineland, 7th delivery, IV.9: The medieval Gaue, 2000, 1 map sheet, 1 booklet, edited by Thomas Bauer, ISBN 3-7927-1818-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwig Wirtz: Studies on the history of Rhenish districts . In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch . No. 26 . Düsseldorf, S. 65–238, here p. 65 ff . (1913/14).
2. ↑ Eugen Ewig: The Civitas Ubiorum, the Franca Rinensis and the land of Ribuarien . In: Rheinische Vierteljahresblätter , vol. 19, Bonn 1954, p. 17 f., Note 14.
3. ↑ Guido Rotthoff: Gildegavia - Keldaggouue - Gellepgau . In: Renate Pirling (ed.): The Roman-Franconian grave field of Krefeld-Gellep 1960–1963 , Berlin 1974, pp. 215–223.
4. ↑ Ulrich Nonn: Pagus and Comitatus in Niederlothringen . In: Bonn historical research . Volume 49. Bonn 1983, p. 78 f .