Perfgau
The Perfgau ( pagus Pernaffa ) was a medieval county in the border area of Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia on the Hessian side. It got its name after the Perf ( Pernaffa ), a tributary of the Lahn in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district , in the northern Gladenbacher Bergland .
The Perfgau enclosed the area around the Mark Breidenbach , which originally also included the places Almonds , Laasphe , Hesselbach , Puderbach , Niederlaasphe, Fischelbach and Ditzrod , Eibelshausen , Eiershausen and Hirzenhain . The places Ewersbach , Straßeneberbach and Steinbrücken , which are located within the Hege created at that time, but which are otherwise included in the Haigerer Mark , are uncertain .
It is also uncertain whether the Mark Dautphe in the east of the Perfgau is included. Otto Renkhoff as well as Ulrich Lennarz add them as a special unit and justify this with a so-called court summit, which is located on the border between the Breidenbacher Grund and the court of Dautphe. Only later would the area be divided into two parts, Mark Breidenbach and Mark Dautphe.
A subdivision of the area into the Zenten Breidenbach, Dautphe and Lixfeld has been handed down for 1238 , all of which belonged to the County of Battenberg . From this it can be concluded that the Perfgau was divided into its subdivisions between the 10th and 13th centuries.
The only known count in Perfgau was:
- Eberhard , † October 23, 939 near Andernach , "Duke of Franconia", 909 lay abbot of Sankt Maximin in Trier , 913 Count in Hessengau and Perfgau, 913 and 928 Count in Oberlahngau , 914 Margrave , 936 Truchsess , 938 Palatine , the brother of King Konrad I from the Konradin family
Individual evidence
literature
- Ulrich Lennarz: The territorial history of the Hessian hinterland . Elwert. Marburg 1973
- Otto Renkhoff: Territorial history of the principality of Nassau-Dillenburg: The basics of the Nassau-Dillenburg territorial development . 1932