The Trechirgau was a

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administrative district, a gau. It belonged to the

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. Its exact extent is only roughly known and it lay in the triangle formed by

Enkirch Enkirch is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich Districts of Germany, district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Ge ...

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and

Oberwesel Oberwesel () is a town on the Middle Rhine in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Hunsrück-Mittelrhein, whose seat is in Emmelshausen. Geography Location Oberwesel lies ...

History

The Trechirgau was closely associated with the Maifeldgau. The main location lay in

Treis Treis-Karden is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was the seat of the former like-named ''Verbandsg ...

on the Moselle. The district around Treis is known in documents as Trigorium. The gau was administered by counts. Documented as gau counts in the Trechirgau are the Berthold/Beceline, who became extinct at the end of the 11th century. The further history of the gau is not clear. Parts of it appear later in the possession of, among others, the

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, the Counts of Virneburg, the Counts of Sponheim and of the

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Literature

* Heinzelmann, Josef: ''Der Weg nach Trigorium …''; in: Jahrbuch für westdeutsche Landesgeschichte 21 (1995), S. 91–132

External links

* http://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/pagus/Trechirgau/ {{coord missing, Rhineland-Palatinate Former states and territories of Rhineland-Palatinate History of Lorraine