Niddagau

The Niddagau was a medieval county that stretched along the Nidda in Central Hesse around today's Friedberg and Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . In the southwest it bordered on the Rheingau and in the south on the Maingau . The Niddagau is first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex with reference to the year 770 AD.

Graf im Niddagau was:

• Liutfridus; † after 876

• Konrad the Red ; † August 10, 955 in the battle on the Lechfeld from the Salier family , 941 count in Nahegau , Speyergau, Wormsgau and Niddagau, 942/945 count in Franconia , 944 adolescents , 945–954 Duke of Lorraine , deposed, buried in the cathedral to Worms ; ∞ around 947 Liutgard of Saxony, * probably 931; † November 18, 953, daughter of the king and later emperor Otto I , buried in St. Alban's Abbey near Mainz ( Liudolfinger )

literature

• Heinrich Büttner : Early Christianity in Wetterau and Niddagau. In: Yearbook for the Diocese of Mainz , Vol. 3 (1948), pp. 138–150, ISSN  0720-2113