 Like other villages in medieval times, the income from the church and from the farms was distributed to a series of nobles, typically as rewards or in payment for fealty and service.It is often difficult for us to understand these times because things were so different from today in terms of property ownership, political and church organization, and so on.The Knights of Dußlingen were subjects of the Count of Tübingen, and seem to have flourished in the period from 1250 to 1400.