Klettgau

Klettgau is a municipality within the district of Wald close in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany. It is the centre of the Klettgau historic location stretching throughout the Swiss border into the cantons of Aargau, Schaffhausen and Zurich. Erzingen was already cited as villa Arcingen in an 876 deed, a Swabian possession held by the Benedictie abbey of Rheinau. In 1486 it became occupied by means of the forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy on a campaign into the Landgraviate of Klettgau.

The instantaneous landgraviate was inherited by means of the House of Schwarzenberg in 1687 with their house in Tiengen, and elevated to a principality by means of Emperor Leopold I in 1694. After the Schwarzenberg landgraviates become mediatised in 1806, the lordship fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1812. The present-day municipality was mounted in a 1971 administrative reform. Buhl and Geisslingen have been included in 1975. Klettgau is positioned at the Klingengraben and Schwarzbach creeks. In the east it borders at the Swiss municipalities of Trasadingen, Wilchingen and Wasterkingen.