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The history of Bernhausen ("Bernhausen auf den Fildern") is given on the website of the town Filderstadt (see below*). In extracts can be taken out:
"The first documentation occured in 1089 when in the so-called "Bempflinger Vertrag" (Contract of Bempflingen) the noblemen "Folmarus et Roudolfus de Berinhusin" were named as witness. It is assumed that they were named after their authority domicile. Therefore Bernhausen is one of the earliest named towns on the region Filder. The ancestral seat of the nobles of Bernhausen was "Auf der Burg". There existed a branch of "edelfreien" free nobles named after the towns Grötzingen, Waldenbuch and Plattenhardt, and furthermore a branch of lower nobility named after the towns Bonlanden, Rohracker, Rohreck and Riedenberg. The most famous of the line of free nobles was Diepold von Bernhausen, a consultant of the German king Rudolf von Habsburg. In 1286 he died during the battle of Hedelfingen on the side of king Rudolf von Habsburg against Count 'Graf Eberhard von Württemberg'."
"During the 14th century the nobles of Bernhausen sold their rights of governance in Bernhausen to counts of Württemberg. Henceforth the nobles of Bernhausen had their domicile in Bittenfeld close to Waiblingen, in 1665 they were upraised to barons of the empire ("Reichsfreiherrnstand")."
Also Bernhausen suffered due to the Thirty Years' War, the population was reduced from about 600 to about 360 people. "Around 90 of 219 buildings were destroyed or damaged."
As long as the Alber ancestors lived in Bernhausen (1510 - 1787), the population ranged between 550 and 667, only after the Thirty Years' War 359 people were counted.
Today the International Airport Stuttgart is situated in the immediate vicinity of Bernhausen. During the reform of the counties (administrative districts) in Baden-Württemberg in 1975 the towns Bernhausen, Bonlanden, Harthausen, Plattenhardt and Sielmingen became merged to Filderstadt. Filderstadt a part of the administrative district Esslingen am Neckar is situated south of Stuttgart.
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