Counts Of Eberstein

The County of Eberstein was a territory within the

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, situated in the southwest of modern

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. From 1085 up into the 13th century, the Counts of Eberstein lived in the castle known today as

Alt Eberstein The ruins of Alt-Eberstein are the remains of the former Schloss Eberstein (Eberstein Castle), located on a hill near the town of Ebersteinburg and directly upstream of the modern city of Baden-Baden, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany ...

which lies on a mountain top between the valleys of the rivers

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and Oos (in ''Ebersteinburg'', now an outlying district of

Baden-Baden Baden-Baden () is a spa town in the states of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos (river), Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the ...

). They then moved to ''Neu Eberstein'', today known as ''Schloss Eberstein'', near Gernsbach. From 1085, the counts were '' Vögte'' of Reichenbach Priory. After the financial ruin of Wolf von Eberstein in 1387, half of the family possessions had to be sold to the

Margraves of Baden The Margraviate of Baden () was a historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire. Spread along the right banks of the Upper Rhine in south-western Germany, it was named a margraviate in 1112 and existed until 1535, when it was split into the two ...

. When the last male member of the family died in 1660, the remaining possessions were taken over by the

bishopric of Speyer The Prince-Bishopric of Speyer, formerly known as Spires in English, (German: ''Hochstift Speyer, Fürstbistum Speyer, Bistum Speyer'') was an ecclesiastical principality in what are today the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wür ...

and by the

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. File:Grafschaft Eberstein in Schwaben - Map - Krieg von Hochfelden.JPG , Map of the County of Eberstein in 1283 File:Alt Ebersteinburg.JPG , The ruins of

castle File:Gernsbach - Schloss Eberstein von Der Bruzzla.jpg , Schloss Eberstein near Gernsbach File:Eberstein Scheibler102ps.jpg , The original coat of arms of the Counts of Eberstein, dated 1450–80, from the ''Scheibler'sches Wappenbuch'' The Counts of Eberstein from south-west Germany should not be confused with the Franconian lords of the same name with their ancestral home at Eberstein Castle near

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. Another medieval comital family were the counts of Everstein (sometimes also called Eberstein) from

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with their ancestral home Everstein on the

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