Riesgau

The Riesgau (also: Rezia , from the Roman province of Raetia ) was a district in the northeast of the medieval tribal duchy of Swabia . It was bounded to the south by the Danube . Places in Riesgau: Nördlingen , Altheim (today: Hohenaltheim municipality ), Dillingen an der Donau . The name can still be found today in Nördlinger Ries or in the Donau-Ries district .

Graf im Riesgau was Friedrich in the early 11th century , one of the progenitors of the later imperial family of the Staufers .

According to Gustav Droysen , who tried to trace the location and extent of the Gaue around the year 1000, the following Gaue were all around the Riesgau: in the north the Mulachgau , in the northeast and east the Schwalbfeld ( Sualafeldgau ) , in the southeast and south the Augestgau , in the south and southwest Duria , in the southwest and west Alba and in the west and northwest the Trachgau .

literature

Wikisource: Country and People / No. 23. A walk through the Ries , in: Die Gartenlaube, 1866.  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pierer's Universal Lexikon, Volume 14. Altenburg 1862, p. 159. [1]
2. ↑ Gustav Droysen: General historical hand atlas . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1886, plate 22 ( digitized ).