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BREISGAU , a See also:

district of See also:Germany, in the See also:grand duchy of See also:Baden. It extends along the right See also:bank of the See also:Rhine from See also:Basel to See also:Kehl, and includes the See also:principal peaks of the See also:southern See also:Black See also:Forest and the See also:Freiburg valley. The Breisgau, originally a pagus • or See also:gau of the Frankish See also:empire, was ruled during the See also:middle ages by hereditary See also:counts. Of these the earliest recorded is Birtilo (962-995), ancestor of the counts and See also:dukes of See also:Zahringen. On the See also:death of Berchthold V. of Zahringen in 1218, his co-heiresses brought parts of the Breisgau to the counts of Urach and Kyburg, while See also:part went to the margraves of Baden. At the See also:close of the 13th See also:century the Kyburg part of the Breisgau passed to the Habsburgs, who in 1368 acquired also the See also:town and countship of Freiburg, which had been sold by the counts of Urach to the Freiburgers and given in See also:pledge by them to the See also:house of See also:Austria in See also:exchange for a See also:loan of the See also:purchase See also:price, which they were unable to repay. The male Urach See also:line becoming See also:extinct in 1457, an heiress carried what remained of their possessions in the Breisgau to the house of Baden. In the struggle between See also:France and Austria from the 17th century onwards the Breisgau frequently changed masters. In 18o1 Austria was forced to cede it to Ercole III., See also:duke of See also:Modena, in See also:compensation for the duchy of which See also:Napoleon had deprived him. His successor See also:Ferdinand took the See also:title of duke of Modena-Breisgau, but on his death in 18o5 the Breisgau was divided between Baden and See also:Wurttemberg. The latter ceded its portion to Baden in 181o. See Stokvis, See also:Manuel d'histoire, &c.

(See also:

Leiden, 189o-1893).

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