Origin

The first registered Nebelungs were Siegfried, a male born in 1984, and named for the murdered dragon slayer in the germanic saga, the Nibelungenlied, and Brunhilde, a female born in 1985, named for the Icelandic queen in the same saga. Their mother was a black domestic shorthair named Elsa belonging to Cora's son, Karl, and the father was a blue domestic shorthair male that resembled a Russian Blue. Out of their first litter of six blue and black kittens, Siegfried was the only blue longhaired kitten-a beautiful, large kitten with long legs, long tail and the distinctive features of the Russian Blue combined with a medium length coat. Five months later a second litter was born to Elsa and her blue “boy friend”. Their second litter of seven kittens had another longhaired blue kitten but this time it was a female that Cora named Brunhilde. Her blue coat was longer and lighter than Siegfried's. In May 1986, Siegfried and Brunhilde’s first litter was born. They were gorgeous kittens, with their father’s Russian Blue body type and their mother’s long glossy hair. Shortly afterwards, in 1987, with the help of Dr. Solveig Pflueger, Cora applied to The International Cat Association (TICA) for New Breed status (NBC). In 1997, after 10 years of dedicated work developing the Nebelung breed, Cora Cobb and other breeders attained recognition and championship status for the Nebelung in TICA. Since then, the breed has been recognized by other cat associations including Le Livre Officiel des Orgines Felines (LOOF), the World Cat Federation (WCF), the Canadian Cat Association (CCA) and most recently our own association, ACFA.