Reign of Schwabegg
The Schwabegg Rule (also known as the Schwabeck Rule ) was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in what is now the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia .
geography
Schwabegg is located on the eastern slope of the perennials about 30 km south of Augsburg and 5 km west of Schwabmünchen . At the time of its greatest expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries, the so-called Grafschaft Schwabegg comprised the area from the Genn to the west to the ridge at Mattsies and stretched from the forests around Hilpoldsberg in the north to the Hartwald near Wörishofen.
history
It is assumed that the Castellum Mantahinga was located in Schwabegg, where Bishop Ulrich is said to have sought refuge in the turmoil before the Battle of Hungary in 955 on the Lechfeld . The name Schwabegg was first mentioned in 1110 with the mention of "Wernher de Swabeikos". He belonged to the noble family that had exercised the bailiwick of the Augsburg bishopric at the latest since 980 . Wernher III. of Schwabeck founded in 1125, the Norbertine - Kloster Ursberg . A year later, Gisela von Schwabeck founded the Edelstetten Monastery , and she became its first abbess. When the Lords of Schwabegg died out in 1167, the castle came to the Hohenstaufen kings . In 1208 the castle was destroyed in a feud by the Augsburg bishop , but was soon rebuilt. Konradin , the last Staufer, pledged the county to his uncle Ludwig the Strict on his trip to Italy . After Konradin's death in 1268 it came to the Dukes of Baiern. In 1372 the castle was destroyed again by the Augsburgers. Rebuilt, it was also partially destroyed in the Bavarian War in 1422 and not repaired.
In the following years the rule came into different hands. Late 17th century the rule grew under Landgrave Maximilian Philipp Hieronymus von Bayern-Leuchtenberg through the purchase of the Empire Ritterschaften Angelsberg and Mattsies of the Fugger considerably. After his death in 1705, the rule was mostly in the personal possession of the Electors of Bavaria until 1806. It was not until 1806 that the name Grafschaft Schwabegg expired when the area became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria .
At the beginning of the 20th century, a calvary was built on the site of the former medieval castle .
See also
literature
- Wolfgang Wüst: Kurbayern and its western neighbors. Reichsstadt and Hochstift Augsburg in the mirror of diplomatic correspondence , in ZBLG 55 (1992) [1] , pp. 266–278