page_title: Regensberg family
section_title: Expansion of the Regensberg lands
hierarchical_section_title: Regensberg family / History / Expansion of the Regensberg lands
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Klosterhof des ehemaligen Prämonstratenserkloster in Rüti (ZH) respektive die heutige reformierte Kirche, rechts das Amthaus.English: Klosterhof square respectively former Premonstratensian Abbey St. Mary in Rüti (Switzerland), as of today Reformed church, Amthaus to the right.
context_page_description: Regensberg was a family of counts from the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The family had possessions in the medieval Zürichgau from the probably mid-11th century and became extinct in 1331 AD. With the extinction of the male line, the city republic of Zürich laid claim to the Regensberg lands and formed the Herrschaft Regensberg respectively Äussere Vogtei.
context_section_description: The foundation of the Rüti Abbey probably enabled Lütold IV to secure goods from the legacy of Alt-Rapperswil around 1192 to escape the clutches between Toggenburg and Neu-Rapperswil. In association with Rudolf II von Rapperswil a private church in Seegräben went over to the Rüti Abbey in 1206. A visible sign of the upturn of the Regensberg family was the decisive transformation of the ancestral seat as high medieval aristocratic residence with walls made of stone instead of a palisade and the elaborate shell of the keep. Shortly after the founding of the town of Grüningen which probably served as security for controversial goods in the Zürich Oberland, in 1219, on the mediation of the Archbishop Eberhard of Salzburg, a brother of Lütold V, the Kastvogtei on Rüti went to Neu-Rapperswil. Lütold VI was looking for a better penetration of his reign, and for this purpose he established from the 1240s its own service nobility (von Lägern, von Mandach, von Steinmaur and von Tal families). Around the middle of the century, he also founded the castle and town of Neu-Regensberg and the small market town Glanzenberg near the Fahr Abbey in the Limmat Valley.
  Either Lütold V von Regensberg or his son Ulrich (+ 1280) has established the fortified town of Neu-Regensberg, but when Lütold V died about 1250, his two sons Lütold VI and Ulrich divided the inheritance: Lütold VI retained the ancestral castle and the extensive free float, his brother Ulrich received Neu-Regensberg and the possessions in the Limmattal, and so the lines Alt-Regensberg and Neu-Regensberg were established. But, finally, both lines failed to establish a bailywick in opposition to namely the Habsburg family, and the expanding city of Zürich that tried to establish long-distance trading routes.
caption: Rüti Reformed Church, the church of the former Rüti Abbey
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