Heiligenberg county

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Family coat of arms of the Counts of Heiligenberg

The county of Heiligenberg was a county on the northwestern shore of Lake Constance . The residence was Heiligenberg Castle .

history

The county emerged from the early medieval county of Linzgau , which the Counts of Heiligenberg received in 1135 . Of these, it went to the Counts of Werdenberg in 1277 and to the Fürstenbergers in 1535 . During the Middle Ages, the name of the Grafensitz Heiligenberg passed to the entire county, so that the name Linzgau was replaced by the term Grafschaft Heiligenberg .

The scope in the Middle Ages is described, for example, in a loan from King Wenceslas from 1382 for Count Albrecht von Werdenberg : The border ran from the Rhine bridge at Petershausen Monastery (city of Konstanz ), to the linden tree in Dingelsdorf , across the lake to Ludwigshafen , from there via Nesselwangen to the gray stone on the highway between Ruhestetten and Aach-Linz . Continue from a mill near Pfullendorf over a boundary stone near Ostrach and the fountain from Riedhausen into the Schussen near Berg . From there, Schussen and Lake Constance form the border back to Petershausen.

The respective counts of Heiligenberg only owned the manor with the lower court in a small part of their county . In contrast, they exercised high jurisdiction in their county until the 18th century, with the exception of the free imperial cities of Überlingen , Pfullendorf , Meersburg and Markdorf . It was not until the 17th and 18th centuries that they sold their high court rights over other areas to the ruling monasteries and cities there.

In the course of mediatization at the beginning of the 19th century, a large part of the former county fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden , especially to the later district of Überlingen . Today the area is in the Lake Constance district and in the south of the Sigmaringen district .

Coat of arms of the Counts of Werdenberg

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a slanting black step bar in silver ("Heiligenberger Stiege"), on the helmet a golden bracken trunk with the shield image on the ear

Name bearer

literature

  • Hermann Eris Busse (Ed.): Überlingersee and Linzgau. In: Badische Heimat 23, 1936
  • Carl Borromeo Alois Fickler: Heiligenberg in Swabia. With a story of its old counts and the Linzgau ruled by them . Macklot, Karlsruhe 1853 ( digitized version )
  • Hans Schleuning (Ed.): Überlingen and the Linzgau on Lake Constance. Stuttgart / Aalen 1972 (home and work)

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