Polity Hohenberg County

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Was a county of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment

  • January 1145: Hohenberg County is p: Partitioned from Zollern.

Chronology

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1. Events

  • January 1201: Around 1200, the Counts of Hohenberg appeared as local lords and built a new castle on the Schlossberg, around which the lower town developed as a market town. […] When these counts died out (after 1162), the counts of Hohenberg took over Haigerloch.
  • January 1238: In 1237, Emperor Friedrich II raised Rottenmünster to the status of an imperial monastery and entrusted the protection of the monastery to the imperial city of Rottweil.
  • January 1307: Hohenberg County acquired Horb.
  • January 1364: Nagold is sold to Württemberg.

Disestablishment

  • January 1382: Hohenberg County is sold to Austria.