Basel and Strasbourg. In 1556 the Reformation was introduced in Wolfenweiler. As parts of the lower village and of Talhausen belonged to the parish of Wolfenweiler, this would have led to a confessional split. Based on the Augsburg Settlement, on 2 November 1556 Christopher von Falkenstein forbade the worshipers to attend the worship services in Wolfenweiler under threat of physical punishment. This also meant, that from then on the parish and the municipality of Ebringen became the same. When Christopher von Falkenstein died in 1559, his nephew Hans Wolf von Bodman inherited the rule over Ebringen. The Bodman family had most of its possessions located in the region of Lake Constance, so the municipality took advantage of the situation, that the landlord lived far away. In 1560 a new local ordinance was negotiated, which expanded the rights of the commoners and reduced the rights of the nobility, in particular with regard to corvée labour and other forms of socage and the usage of the forests and the vineyards. Because the exact borderline between Wolfenweiler and Ebringen was more and more disputed, after arbitration in 1563 the demarcation was defined exactly by more landmarks, including the Mount Hohfirst In 1565 Ebringen's borders with Bollschweil and Soelden were also determined. So the Ebringen area mainly acquired its present shape. In 1582 Austria adopted the Gregorian calendar like most other catholic territories in the Holy Roman Empire, so the new calendar was introduced in Ebringen. The Protestant territories still used the Julian calendar. So from then on the official date differed by ten days between Ebringen and its neighbouring village Wolfenweiler. In 1584 Ebringen suffered an outbreak of the plague. Ruling aristocrats and noble families The aristocrats ruled in most of the time by a governor and lived normally out of Ebringen. von Hornberg 1349-1458 1349 - ~1370 Werner von Hornberg ~1370 - bef. 1402 Ulrich von Hornberg, son of Werner von Hornberg bef. 1402 - 1408 Brun Werner von Hornberg, son of Ulrich von Hornberg 1408 - 1419 Bertold S(ch)newlin, brother-in-law of Brun Werner von Hornberg 1419 - 1426 Konrad Dietrich von Ratsamhausen, father of Beningosa von Ratsamhausen 1426 - 1458 Konrad von Hornberg, son of Brun Werner, married with Beningosa von Ratsamhausen 1458 Beningosa von Ratsamhausen, widow of Konrad von Hornberg, died about 1469 von Ems 1458-1499 1458 - ~1490 Hans von Ems, second husband of Beningosa von Ratsamhausen ~1490 -