Lordship of Heudorf
The rule Heudorf was a rule based on Heudorf Castle in Heudorf , today a district of the municipality of Dürmentingen in the district of Biberach ( Baden-Württemberg ).
History of domination
Around 1300 four properties in Heudorf are named in a Habsburg land register, which were bought by the Counts of Veringen and given to Hermann von Hornstein as personal property . In 1471 the castle and village were given to Hans von Stotzingen the Elder by the Lords of Hornstein-Hertenstein . Ä. sold to Tissen. From 1540, the imperial barons of Stotzingen also had the right to a high court with stick and gallows as well as enfeoffment with the ban on blood. In 1562 they gained freedom from foreign courts and the right to set up their own mills, ponds, baths and taverns within their judicial boundaries.
In the early modern period, Austria enforced its feudal sovereignty over the manor . In 1790 the Lords of Stotzingen sold the rule to the Princes of Thurn and Taxis . As part of the mediatization in 1806, the rule Heudorf came under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Württemberg .
Heudorf Castle
The castle was rebuilt in 1536 under Wilhelm von Stotzingen.
Between 1854 and 1920 the forestry office responsible for the Thurn und Taxis forests was relocated from Buchau to Heudorf Castle. Afterwards the venerable sisters of St. Vincent established the first educational institution in the castle. In 1932 the Claretian fathers, who were expelled from Spain, found a new home and, like the venerable sisters before, ran the farm belonging to the castle. Between 1938 and 1943, the Thurn and Taxis Forestry Office returned to Heudorf. In the last years of the war from 1943 to 1945 the castle housed a school for talented students. After the collapse of the German Reich, Polish foreign workers moved into their quarters in the castle; sometimes up to 300 people lived in the castle. The attempt to operate a hotel business with a riding school and animal show profitably (1953–1956) failed. In 1956, the princes of Thurn and Taxis sold the ruined castle for 70,000 DM to the Immakulata sisters from the Brandenburg monastery, who set up an auxiliary school for children with learning disabilities with an attached Edith Stein school. The agricultural land initially remained with the Thurn und Taxis family and was only later sold to local farmers.