Freiburg

The counts of Freiburg were a branch of the counts of Urach who inherited the Zähringen lands in the Breisgau when the Zähringen dukes died out in 1218. Count Egino V of Urach styled himself count of Freiburg from about 1230 and ruled the city and surrounding Black Forest country.

Under his son Conrad I the inheritance was divided with the princely house of Fürstenberg before 1245. The counts' hold on Freiburg was contested, and in 1368 the city council ransomed the town from their rule, after which it became a Habsburg city in the Austrian Forelands.

Reduced to their estates around Neuenstein castle at Badenweiler, the counts lingered until the last of them, John, bequeathed Badenweiler in 1444 to his Hachberg-Sausenberg nephews, whose union of Rötteln, Sausenberg and Badenweiler created the Markgräflerland.