Bonndorf

Bonndorf lies in the southern Black Forest, above the deep valley of the Wutach. First recorded in 1223, it was associated with a family of local lords whose seat stood on the Lindenbuck. After their time the lordship passed through several hands, becoming the subject of a dispute when the Lupfen family died out in 1582. Emperor Rudolf II was called upon to settle the inheritance.

In 1609 the monastery of St Blasien purchased Bonndorf. Possession of the lordship gave its abbot a seat and vote in the Swabian Circle, alongside his spiritual office. Bonndorf and several other monastic lordships were united as a county in 1699, and in 1746 the abbot was raised to the rank of an imperial prince. Following secularization and a succession of brief transfers, Bonndorf passed to Baden in 1806.