The History of Freiburg im Breisgau can be traced back years. The unloved Counts of Freiburg followed as the town lords, who then sold it onto the Habsburgers. At the start of the 19th century, the catholic Austrian ownership of the town ended, when Napoleon , after having invaded the town, decreed the town and Breisgau to be a part of the Grand Duchy of Baden in The first reference of habitation in the modern-day Freiburg, the Wiehre and Herdern, was documented in A settlement of servants and craftsmen at the foot of the castle belonged to the new area, with the settlement being situated in the modern-day region of the Altstadt English Old Town and Oberlinden, which stood under particular protection from the lord.
The settlement grew, which was founded by Konrad, the brother of the current Duke, Berthold III, and he then went on to grant a market for the settlement in He granted the residents extensive privileges, such as the relief from farmstead taxes and the free voting for the pastor. Drinking water was supplied to the town by wooden pipes called Deicheln, in Freiburg Deichele from sources above the city and was accessible from fountains.
Silver, which was discovered at the end of the 10th century to the west of the Black Forest , made the city richer. The Freiburg Minster was first built in Romanesque style , but later finished in Gothic. After his death in , Bertold V. A council already existed before under his predecessor, Bertold IV. The council was established during Bertold V's reign. Probably the council in Freiburg, like in the episcopal cities of the Upper Rhine, developed from a township advisory council, which emerged from the municipal community involved in the court.
Starting from councils which changed yearly supervened. At the end of the 13th century, craftsmen came to the town council through the guilds. In the 13th century, several clerical orders were built within the city walls. The Dominicans founded the Preacher's Monastery, Predigerkloster, in , where Albertus Magnus held office of the post-mortem from to From the first mention of a Johanniterhaus is dated.
In , Count Konrad surrendered the Martinskapelle to the begging of the Franciscans with four court houses. The barber monks erected their monastery there, and until they built the chapel to the still existing Martinskirche.
