Königssondergau

The Königssondergau (also called " Königssundragau " ), often wrongly equated with the Rheingau, was on the north bank of the Upper Rhine in the area around Wiesbaden and based roughly on the former Roman administrative district Civitas Mattiacorum. The name " Kunigessuntera " is the first time in 819 occupied. A main courtyard ( " fiscus " ) with a senior officer was relying Wiesbaden, lower courts were in Biebrich and in Mosbach (now part of Biebrich ).

The district was probably (after 771 ) was created at the beginning of the reign of Charlemagne as the property of the Frankish king and his heirs. Thus, the former Alemannic Rheingau was divided into three parts because of the Königssondergau was now between the " lower Rhine" (which retained the name Rheingau in the sequence) and the Upper Rheingau south of the Lower Main.

The Königssondergau originally encompassed the territory of Kemel and Bärstadt in the west, beginning at the Walluf, and handed on to the east to Hofheim and Eppstein, with the Kriftel as eastern border. In the north of the Taunus ridge and the former Roman Limes formed the border. Southern boundary was the Rhine. Adjacent were in the west of the Rheingau, north-east of Niddagau, in the east of Maingau, and in the southwest of the Upper Rheingau.

The administration of the Königssondergaus was in the hands of Gaugrafen, whose royal farmstead ( " Curtis " ) in the vicinity of present-day Wiesbaden City Palace ( Hessischer Landtag ) state. In 9-10. Century residential tower ( " castrum " castle tower ) was built instead, which was developed in the Middle Ages a castle.

The income from the Königssondergau belonged to the Frankish king, who used it to finance his court. Parts of the Gaugebiets, towns and castles were awarded as fief to deserving followers. Over time, parts were the archbishopric of Mainz paid (eg the locations Oestrich, Geisenheim, Rudesheim am Rhein and Lorch in the Verona donation of 983 by Emperor Otto II ) or to other owners sold. Emperor Otto III. gave Biebrich and Mosbach 991 the monastery Selz in Alsace. Gifts and awards fief also benefited nobles and counts, and in the 12th century the House of Nassau Count rights held in and around Wiesbaden. Henry II of empires, 1198-1251 reigning Count of Nassau, received in 1214 the Reichsvogtei Wiesbaden and the Königssondergau as an imperial fief. Even the Lords of Eppstein invaded by exploiting Bailiwick rights, purchase and inheritance into the Königssondergau where they were adversaries to the Counts of Nassau.