Pfinzgau (landscape)

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The Pfinzgau is a small historical landscape east of Karlsruhe . It takes its name from the Pfinz river .

In the High Middle Ages, only a few places around Grötzingen are known to be part of the Pfinzgau. The first settlements in the area of ​​what is now Karlsruhe's district are documented in the 4th and 7th centuries north and south of the Pfinz. As Count of Pfinzgaus officiated in 1100 the Count of Hohenberg .

The long-forgotten term has recently been revived. Since 1913 the antiquity collection in Durlach (accessible since 1924 in the Karlsburg ) is called the Pfinzgau Museum.

Natural structure

As a natural area, the Pfinzgau is a loess loam-covered, gently undulating hill country made of shell limestone with foothills of the Lettenkeuper and the Lower Gipskeuper (quote from remchingen.de).

In the Geographical Land Survey, the Pfinzgau is described as part of the Pfinzhügelland.

125.3 Pfinzhügelland

  • 125.30 West Pfinzgau
  • 125.31 Pfinz-Alb plate
  • 125.32 Eastern Pfinzgau
  • 125.33 building lottery plate
  • 125.34 Pforzheimer Enztal

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hansjörg Dongus: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 170 Stuttgart. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. → Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)

literature

  • Günther Imm: From Baden districts and their names. In: Badische Heimat. 49, 1969, 1, ISSN  0930-7001 , pp. 34-46.
  • Albert Krieger: Pfinzgau and Enzgau from the 8th to the 12th century. In: Badische Heimat. 12, 1925, ISSN  0930-7001 , pp. 322-339.

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