The County of Eberstein was a territory within the
Holy Roman Empire, situated in the southwest of modern
Germany. 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
Murg
Murg may refer to:
Places
* Murg (Aare), a river of Switzerland
* Murg (Northern Black Forest), a river and right tributary of the Rhine in the districts of Freudenstadt and Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
** Murg Valley Railway
* Murg (Sou ...
and Oos (in ''Ebersteinburg'', now an outlying district of
Baden-Baden). 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. When the last male member of the family died in 1660, the remaining possessions were taken over by the
bishopric of Speyer and by the
duchy of Württemberg
The Duchy of Württemberg (german: Herzogtum Württemberg) was a duchy located in the south-western part of the Holy Roman Empire. It was a member of the Holy Roman Empire from 1495 to 1806. The dukedom's long survival for over three centuries ...
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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 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. ...
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
Hilders. Another medieval comital family were the
Counts of Everstein (sometimes also called Eberstein) from
Lower Saxony with their ancestral home Everstein on the
Burgberg (ridge).
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