Moselgau

The Moselgau was a medieval Gaugrafschaft which, as an administrative district , comprised the valley of the Moselle from Metz down to the present-day border between Luxembourg and Germany ; as a landscape designation it was much more extensive, both along the river, where it reached as far as Cochem , and in its width, where it also included the surrounding mountain regions.

The main place and administrative seat of the Moselgau was temporarily Metz, which resulted in a spatial overlap with the Metzgau for at least some time.

Counts in the Moselgau were:

• Adalhard II. (* Around 840; † 889/890), Count of Metz or Moselgau ( Matfriede ); ∞ NN daughter or niece of Matfried II , Count im Eifelgau
• Siegfried I. (919–998), 963–998 Count in Moselgau from the house of the Dukes of Lorraine , exchanges property with the St. Maximin Abbey in Trier near Ettelbrück for the Lucilinburhuc ( Wigeriche )
• Giselbert († 1004), son of Siegfried I, Count in Moselgau
• Friedrich (965-1019), Count in the Moselgau, brother of Giselbert; ∞ NN, † after 985, heiress of Gleiberg , daughter of Count Heribert im Kinziggau ( Konradiner )

The Moselgau formed the basis of the county of Luxembourg when the counties were transformed into feudal counties .

literature

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