Nimburg (noble family)
The Counts of Nimburg were an influential noble family in the Breisgau from the 10th to the 12th century , which had its ancestral castle above Nimburg near Teningen am Kaiserstuhl . They are not to be confused with the Lords of Nimburg , who were servants of the Counts of Nimburg in the 12th century.
history
The Counts of Nimburg - also Nuimburg or Nuwemburg - are considered relatives of the Üsenberger and are said to have descended from the Lords of Rimsingen . A connection to the Lords of Eichstetten is also assumed. They took the name from their Nimburg castle . From 1087 an Erlewin von Nuemburch appears in the documents. He and later a Berthold von Nuwenburch appear as witnesses in the vicinity of the Zähringer . In 1189 a Berthold von Neuenburg accompanied Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa on his crusade and became the standard bearer of the first host. In the literature it is shown that these Counts of Neuchâtel are the Counts of Nimburg, who, alongside the Zähringers and the Margraves of Baden, occupied an important position in the Breisgau.
In 1200, Count Berthold von Nimburg sold his castle and the rulership to the Strasbourg bishop Konrad von Hüneburg and thus financed his participation in the fourth crusade in 1202. Berthold and his son of the same name belonged to a group of Alsatian and Breisgau nobles, Abbot Martin vom Alsatian monastery Pairis followed. He came through Acre to Jerusalem , where he died. With his son († 1213), the gender died out in the male line, and a dispute over the inheritance began. Ultimately, Nimburg, Bottingen and Teningen went to the Counts of Freiburg - albeit as a fiefdom of the bishopric of Strasbourg .
literature
- Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book. Three volumes. Carl Winter's University Bookstore, Heidelberg 1898–1919. Volume 3 here, pp. 241–242 online
- Lorenz Werkmann: The Counts of Nimburg in Breisgau . In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv Volume 10 (1876), pp. 71–83 with an addendum by Josef Bader , pp. 84–96 online
- Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Tübingen and Leipzig, 1904, sixth volume, first division - Freiburg district; P. 198 online
- Heinrich Maurer : On the history of the counts of Neuchâtel. In: Journal of the Society for the Promotion of History, Antiquity and Folklore of Freiburg, the Breisgau and the Adjacent Landscapes, Volume 6 (1883–1887), pp. 449–465