A CORNER OF OLD WURTTEMBERG 
OLD WURTTEMBERG 
O-A: NAGOLD 
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NEW WURTTEMBERG 
BOUNDARY BETWEEN CLD AND NEW WORTTEMBERG 
BOUNDARIES SF GEMEINDE, 
EVANGELICAL 
CATHOLIC 
BOUNDARIES OCF CBERAMTS (0-A) 
proportion of good and a certain propor- 
tion of inferior land, so that he might 
be allotted half a dozen plots in various 
parts of the common land. By degrees 
it became customary for the same parcels 
of land to be allotted to the same fami- 
lies each year, and, after some genera- 
tions, individual ownership in the land 
became established. 
As the individuals of each family in- 
creased in number the plots became more 
and more divided up among the sons, 
until today they can be divided no longer, 
and it has become the custom for one 
son only to remain on the farm, the 
others seeking their fortune elsewhere. 
MARKED SIMILARITY OF NAMES BETWEEN 
THESE AND OLD ENGLISH CITIES 
Of the villages on the rolling uplands 
east and south of the Nagold Thal, 
a great number have the termination 
“ingen,’ as Jettingen, Geckingen, etc., 
and some end in “heim,” as Stamm- 
heim, Ostelheim. These terminations in 
“ingen” and “heim” are of rather pecu- 
liar interest, since they indicate the earli- 
est Teutonic settlements. Before the 
time of the Romans the Celts, or a 
Celtic-speaking people, were in posses- 
sion of what is now Wiurttemberg, and 
have left their traces in the names of 
some rivers and mountains; the word 
Nagold itself probably contains a Celtic 
root. During the first century B. C. the 
Germans began to pour in from the north 
and the Romans from the south, but the 
Romans gained the upper hand and occu- 
pied the country till the fourth century 
A. D., towards the end of which they 
were finally driven out by the Alamans, 
or Swabians (Roman Suevi), a branch 
of the German Franks, who swept in 
from the north up the valley of the 
Neckar. About the same time the An- 
gles and Saxons invaded England and 
founded numerous settlements with 
: : ‘os BD AISE BD C135 
names ending in “ing,” “ingham,” “ing- 
