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Dillingen is a Landkreis in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Donau-Ries , Augsburg and Günzburg , and by the state of Baden-Württemberg (district of Heidenheim ).
In 1111, the Dillingen's title is recorded as comites de Dilinga. Schloss Dillingen was expanded and fortified in the 12th century; it is mentioned as castrum Dilingin in 1220. Hartmann's younger son Ulrich I became bishop of Constance (r. 1111–1127) while the elder brothers Hartmann II and Adalbert I expanded the territory held by the family ...
Dillingen or Dillingen an der Donau (Dillingen at the Danube) is a town in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is the administrative center of the district of Dillingen . Besides the town of Dillingen proper, the municipality encompasses the villages of Donaualtheim, Fristingen, Hausen, Kicklingen, Schretzheim and Steinheim.
The Kyburg family (/ ˈ k aɪ b ɜːr ɡ /; German: [ˈkyːbʊʁk]; also Kiburg) was a noble family of grafen in the Duchy of Swabia, a cadet line of the counts of Dillingen, who in the late 12th and early 13th centuries ruled the County of Kyburg, corresponding to much of what is now Northeastern Switzerland.
Dillingen may refer to: Dillingen (district), in Bavaria, Germany Counts of Dillingen, whose seat was at Dillingen an der Donau; Dillingen an der Donau, capital of ...
After 1053 it was a possession of the counts of Dillingen. It was greatly expanded with the extinction of the House of Lenzburg in 1173. During 1180–1250, the counts of Kyburg existed as a separate cadet line of the counts of Dillingen. The county was ruled by Hartmann V, nephew of the last count of Kyburg in the agnatic line, during 1251–1263.
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It was rebuilt and soon became the center of the county of Kyburg which was formed in 1053 as a possession of the counts of Dillingen. In 1079, during the Investiture Controversy, the castle was attacked and partially destroyed by Abbot Ulrich II of St. Gall. By 1096, the counts of Dillingen included a count of Kyburg as one of their titles.