Mash gau

the mash gau is a landscape in Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany.

Aerial photograph taken up of mash gau during a balloon travel

in the early Middle Ages belonged to the mash gau to the alemannischen gaus on the upper Rhine and was enough originally from the knee of the Rhine with Basel up to the river bleaches between Kenzingen and Herbolzheim. There bordered the mash gau on the alemannische gau county of the Mortenau (today Ortenau). The name mash gau is derived from the city mash oh on the Rhine.

The region is enough from the Rhine into the Black Forest. Center of the region is Freiburg. It actsaround the climatically warmest region in Germany, the middle yearly temperature is itself with 11° Celsius, the average amount of precipitation with approx. 900 mm for each m ².

The mash gau covers:

  • the Rhine level, in that is cultivated mainly grain, corn as well as special cultures (asparagus, strawberries, in former times often also tobacco)
  • thatWine and Obstbaugebiet of the Vorberge of the black forest and the emperor chair
  • and the west slopes of the southern black forest.

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in the south borders the mash gau on the Markgräflerland (height of Staufen/cheerful home), in the west on the Elsass (France), in the east is enough it to inthe west slope of the Black Forest, in the north to the Ortenau.

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