Oberrheingau

As Upper Rheingau was in the Middle Ages the right bank area of the Upper Rhine Valley northeast of Worms called.

Demarcation

It comprised the southernmost part of today's Hesse with the towns of Alsbach , Geroldshausen (desert see Hähnlein) , Bensheim , Bensheimer Hof , Lochheim (desert near Biebesheim) , Bobstadt , Bürstadt , Eberstadt , Dornheim , Einhausen , Erfelden , Elmarsbach (desert w. Erfelden am Altrhein) , Herolfsheim (Wüstung w. Erfelden) , Fehlheim , Geinsheim am Rhein , Onkular (Wüstung, probably nö. Gernsheim / R. N. Lorsch) , Groß-Rohrheim , Heppenheim , Klein-Rohrheim , Leeheim , Lorsch , Pfungstadt , Schwanheim , Bettenheim (desert around Zwingenberg) .

The eastern border of the Upper Rhinegau will have run parallel to the eastern borders of the brands Schwanheim , Langen , Gerau , Bessungen , Ramstadt and Heppenheim .

Wormsgau and Speyergau bordered west of the Rhine . The Lobdengau lay in the south, the Maingau stretched east of the Oberrheingau and the Königssondergau in the west and the Niddagau in the east to the north of the Main . The Upper Rhinegau was in the Duchy of Franconia , later in the Duchy of West Franconia (also Rhine Franconia).

The Oberrheingau is not to be confused with landscapes on the Upper Rhine , but also not with the upper Rheingau ( Eltville and surroundings), but rather corresponds in its boundaries to today's Bergstrasse .

history

It probably emerged from a tripartite division of the Alemannic Rheingau in the 8th century into Unterrheingau (which subsequently kept the name Rheingau ), Oberrheingau and Königssondergau. In the early Middle Ages , the Upper Rhinegau was the central power base of the Robertines , to which the founding of the Lorsch Monastery can be traced back. From the 9th to the 12th century, the Upper Rhinegau was under the influence of the monastery. With the overwriting of the decaying imperial abbey in 1232 by Frederick II , the area came to Kurmainz and in the following years went up to the southernmost part as a fief in the Upper County of Katzenelnbogen .

Counts in the Oberrheingau from the house of the Robertines

Rupert I. (Robert I.) (722/757 attested, † before 764) 732 dux in Haspengau , 741/742 comes palatinus ( Pfalzgraf ), around 750 count in Upper Rhine and Wormsgau , 757 king messenger ( missus regius ) in Italy , ∞ around 730 Williswint († after 768) donates Lorsch Monastery on July 12th, 764 , heiress on the Upper Rhine and from Hahnheim in Rheinhessen , heiress of Count Adalhelm
(Rupert) Cancor († after 782) his son, 745 Graf im Oberrheingau ( Thurgau ), 758 Graf im Breisgau , 775/778 Graf im Zürichgau , 754 co-founder of Lorsch Abbey , ∞ Angila
Heimrich (Heimo) (X May 5, 795 near Lüne an der Elbe ) his son, 764 co-founder of Lorsch Monastery , 772/782 Count in Oberrheingau, 778 Count in Lahngau , 784 Abbot of Mosbach
Rutpert II. (Hruodbertus) (770 attested, † July 12, 807) nephew Rupert Cancors, 795/807 Count in Worms- and Oberrheingau, 795 Herr zu Dienheim , ∞ I Theoderata (Tiedrada) (766/777 attested, † before 789 ), ∞ II Isengarde, 789
Ruadbert (Robert), grandson of Heimrich, 817 Graf im Saalgau , Oberrheingau and Wormsgau
Rutpert III. (Robert III.) († before 834) son of Rutpert II, 812/830 count in Wormsgau , count in Oberrheingau, 825 missus regius in the diocese of Mainz , ∞ around 808 Wiltrud (Waldrada) von Orléans , 829/834 heiress of property in Orléans, daughter of Count Hadrian and the Waldrat from the house of the Widons - parents of Robert the Brave and thus ancestors of the Capetians

literature

Johann Konrad Dahl. The limits of the old Upper Rhine Valley.

Individual evidence

↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 2), documents 167–273. In: Heidelberg historical holdings - digital. Heidelberg University Library, pp. 11–65 , accessed on January 15, 2018 .
^ Barbara Demandt: Eastern border of the Rheingau. In: The medieval church organization in Hesse south of the Main. In: Writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies. S. 6. Marburg 1966.
^ Johann Konrad Dahl: The limits of the old Upper Rhine Valley. In: Historical-topographical description of the principality of Lorsch , Darmstadt 1812. (at books.google.de) .

[1] Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 2), documents 167–273. In: Heidelberg historical holdings - digital. Heidelberg University Library, pp. 11–65 , accessed on January 15, 2018 .

[2] Barbara Demandt: Eastern border of the Rheingau. In: The medieval church organization in Hesse south of the Main. In: Writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies. S. 6. Marburg 1966.

[3] Johann Konrad Dahl: The limits of the old Upper Rhine Valley. In: Historical-topographical description of the principality of Lorsch , Darmstadt 1812. (at books.google.de) .