Tengen County
The county of Tengen was a county in Hegau . When Tengen was first mentioned in a letter as Teingon , it belonged to Bishop Solomon II of Constance . The Lords of Tengen received city rights and high jurisdiction during the Staufer period . Tengen was the capital of the county of Tengen, which was divided into a front and a rear rule.
The lords of Tengen sold the front rulership to the lords of Klingenberg in 1275. In 1305 it came to Habsburg . In 1387 it was pledged to the Klingenberger and in 1462 it came to the Lords of Bodman and von Jungingen . In 1488 it finally fell to the Deutschordensballei Schwaben-Elsass-Burgund (German Order Coming Mainau ). From there it came to Baden in 1806 .
The rear lordship of Tengen came with the rear town and the Tengen Castle through sale under Count Christoph von Nellenburg-Tengen in 1522 to Upper Austria . In 1534 it was united with the Landgraviate of Nellenburg , which belongs to the front of Austria . The Landgraviate and the manor house of Nellenburg were bought by the Habsburgs in 1465 from the Lords of Tengen, who had owned them since 1422 and were counts from then on. In 1651 it was pledged to the von Auersperg family , who received it as a fief in 1653. The following year it became a princely county.
Because of the County of Tengen, the princes of Auersperg had a virile vote in the Princely Council of the Reichstag as well as a seat and voting right in the Swabian Empire . The approximately 70 square kilometers county was in 1806 in connection with the formation of the Confederation of the Rhine Baden sovereignty unable wonderfully belong to and the 1811 Grand Duchy of Baden sold.
For a long time the Verenahof was considered a curiosity , which was a very small exclave in Swiss territory, but belonged to the territory of Tengen County. The town of Eglisau , founded by the von Tengen, was in their possession until 1463. The Knights of Bülach were servants of the Tengener. In 1806 the court also fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden and only came to Swiss territory in 1967 through a land swap.
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- ^ Johann Ludwig Klüber : Genealogisches Staats-Handbuch - Varrentrapp , Volume 65, 1827 Frankfurt, Wenner, 1827 ( Google Books )