Reign of Hohenegg
The Hohenegg lordship was a lordship located in the Allgäu , which was founded in the Middle Ages by the Hohenegg family . The territory included their ancestral seat Burg Hohenegg and adjacent areas around Ebratshofen , Maierhöfen , Wilhams and Weitnau . The area has belonged to Bavaria since 1806 .
history
At Hohenegg Castle, which is mentioned for the first time in 1171, the nobles of Hohenegg sat from around 1240 and gave the lordship their name. They were ministerials to the Counts of Veringen .
In 1359 the Hoheneggians, who had also sat at Vilsegg Castle since 1313 and made it their future seat, sold the Hohenegg estate with its ancestral castle to Count Wilhelm III. from Montfort-Bregenz . The territory became part of the Bregenz-Hohenegg rule, but it was not a contiguous territory. It was not until 1571, after the Habsburgs had acquired further territories in the Allgäu, that the two parts were connected by Upper Austrian territory.
Countess Elisabeth von Montfort-Bregenz sold the castle and rule to Duke Sigmund of Tyrol on July 12, 1451 , who in turn pledged the castle and rule to the caretaker Kaspar von Laubenberg (resident at Laubenbergerstein Castle ) in 1456 . Hohenegg experienced long-lasting disputes between the Montforters and Laubenbergers and also Austria.
From 1451 to 1805 the Hohenegg rule, interrupted by several pledges, was part of the Habsburg Front Austria . From 1806 the places and inhabitants of this former territory belonged to the then newly created Kingdom of Bavaria , which was determined by Napoleon in the peace treaties of Brno and Pressburg .
In the past, Gasthof Adler in Weitnau was the official seat of the Hohenegg lordship.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Karl Heinz Burmeister: Hohenegg, rule. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . March 24, 2010, accessed December 15, 2018 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 37 ′ 40.7 ″ N , 10 ° 2 ′ 24 ″ E