Ringgau (Gau)
The Ringgau was from 10th to 12th-century medieval Gaugrafschaft in northeastern Hesse and in the far west of Thuringia . It included parts of today's districts Werra-Meißner-Kreis and Wartburgkreis and the city of Eisenach .
location
The Gau comprised parts of today's Werra-Meißner-Kreis and Wartburgkreis and the city of Eisenach and was probably larger than the landscape of today's Ringgau . A precise delimitation of the Gaue is difficult because the affiliations and the names have changed at different times.
Neighboring districts were the Thuringian Germar-Mark in the north and the Franconian Hessengau in the west .
history
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In 993 the Ringgau was first mentioned as in pago Reinichgouue . In the same year a Count Siegfried (von Northeim ?) Is named as Gaugraf . The area was originally a Thuringian tribal area and probably part of the Westergau . From the 13th century, the Ringgau gradually came to the Landgraviate of Hesse .
dialect
The local transition dialect Ringgauisch is now called West Thuringian , at least in Thuringia .
literature
- Herbert Gehlsdorf: Landscape and Settlement in the Ringgau Area. Johannes Braun Verlag, Eschwege, 1926
Web links
- "The Gaue after 900". Historical atlas of Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Heimatverein Datterode on the term Ringgau
- Map: Germany's Gaue (Southern Thuringia-Franconia)
Individual evidence
- ↑ RI II, 3 n.1102 , in: Regesta Imperii Online ... in pago Reinichgouue vocato ac comitatu Sigifridi comitis iacentes ... ( Accessed September 19, 2017)
- ^ Johann Friedrich Schulte: Textbook of the German imperial and legal history. Verlag Wilhelm Nitschke 1876, 26-7
- ^ Herbert Gehlsdorf: Landscape and Settlement in the Ringgau Area. Johannes Braun Verlag, Eschwege 1926