Triergau
, Nunkirchen The Triergau (lat .: pagus treverensis ) was a medieval Gaugrafschaft , which as an administrative district comprised the right bank of the Saar and Moselle from Merzig to Wintrich and the subsequent high forest .
history
In a document dated September 9, 902, King Ludwig the child gave the Triergau to the Bishop of Trier and gave him full grave power over this territory. From the Triergau later emerged Electorate of Trier .
places
The main town and administrative seat of Triergau was the city of Trier . One of the main districts of Triergau in the Ruwer valley area was the Ruwerhundschaft with the towns of Kell , Ober- and Niederzerf with Heddert and Greimerath , Hentern , Lampaden , Krettnach , Pluwig , Osburg , Thomm , Waldrach , Ollmuth and Kasel .
Count
Counts in Triergau were:
- Arbogast , 472
- Adelard, 853 a. 80
- Odacer, 898
- Wigerich , attested in 899, † before 919, 902 Count in Triergau, 909 Count in Bidgau, January 19, 916 Count Palatine of Lorraine, buried in Hastière Abbey ;
literature
- Roland Puhl: The districts and counties of the early Middle Ages in the Saar-Mosel area: Philological-onomastic studies on the early medieval spatial organization ... and the place names specified with their , Saarland printing and publishing house, 1999, ISBN 393084348X
- Otto Curs: Germany's district in the 10th century. Evidence and discussions on a historical map "Germany's district around the year 1000 according to the royal documents" . Goettingen 1910.
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Christian Joannis, Johann Philipp Crollius: Calendar work: The history of the duke. Zweybrücken , 1825, pages 301, 302, 304 and 306
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Fritz Glutting: The development Nunkirchen. I. Under the rule of the Archdiocese of Trier (900 to 1794) in: Heimatbuch 1992 , Nunkirchen 1992 online , accessed on July 18, 2020
- ↑ Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories, now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier