Maulachgau

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The Maulachgau or Mulachgau was a medieval district in what is now northeastern Baden-Württemberg and northwestern Bavaria , named after the Maulach , a tributary of the Jagst . The Gau comprised an area in which the places Crailsheim , Ilshofen and Langenburg are located today . The city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber is sometimes assigned to the Maulachgau, but this assignment is uncertain. The count's seat was probably the Stöckenburg near Vellberg , but possibly also the Flügelau Castle .

The Maulachgau is mentioned for the first time in a document from Emperor Ludwig the Pious from the year 822.

Counts

1024 and 1033 was a Heinrich, probably from the family of the Counts of Lobenhausen , Count in Maulachgau. Other counts are not mentioned in a document.

Alternative spellings

Other spellings are, for example, Mulahgowe , Muleggowi or Mulagcowe .

literature

  • Walther Schultze: The Franconian counties of Rheinbaiern, Rheinhessen, Starkenburg and the Kingdom of Württemberg . Volume 2. Pass & Garleb, 1897. Digitized version
  • Emil Kost: The medieval castle Flügelau and the early medieval Maulachgau . In: Yearbook of the historical association for Württembergisch Franconia. New episode, year 26/27 . Schwäbisch Hall 1951/1952

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Jacobi: Prehistory of the city and the former principality of Ansbach. P. 38 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ From the beginnings of Ilshofen to the end of Hohenlohe rule (PDF; 50 kB)
  3. ^ Text and translation of the document of Emperor Ludwig the Pious from 822
  4. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .