Reign of Werenwag

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The Werenwag rule , which stretched on the north side of the Danube to the Heuberg , once had its center of power in Werenwag Castle . Today the castle belongs to the Fürstenberg family . The Bronnen hunting lodge near Buchheim still belongs to the Barons of Enzberg .

In addition to the castle of the same name, the rulership included the villages of Langenbrunn , Schwenningen , Heinstetten , Hartheim , Kolbingen , Renquishausen and Unterdigisheim . On the northern flank of the Danube valley, the former Fürstenberg lands bordered the Werenwag rulership. After the land register of the Werenwag rule in 1468, the Austrians were entitled to the following rights: compulsion and ban, high and low court, glory, escort and authority, forest and wild ban.

In 1468, Schwenningen, Hartheim, Heinstetten, Irndorf, Kolbingen and Bärental belonged to the dominion. The field names "Galgenberg" in Schwenningen or "Galgenwiesle" in Kolbingen are still reminiscent of the former high court district . The then local executioners were also active as warden and cover foremen.

The rule of Hausen was owned by the County of Hohenberg , which had become Austrian in 1381, and given to the knights of Werenwag as a fief. The minstrel Hugo von Werenwag also came from this sex . Until the state reorganization after 1803, the lords of Ulm-Erbach were enfeoffed with the rule, to which Austria also left the count's rights. In 1810 the territory of the Werenwag rule, which had initially fallen to Württemberg four years earlier , was divided up. The undamaged Werenwag Castle, which then came into the private ownership of the Princely-Fürstenberg family in 1830, as well as the villages of Langenbrunn, Schwenningen, Heinstetten and Hartheim fell to Baden, while Kolbingen, Renquishausen and Unterdigisheim finally remained with Württemberg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sigrid Hirbodian , Andreas Schmauder and Manfred Waßner (ed.): Community in transition . Volume 19 A city in transition The history of Meßstetten. No. 19 . Tübingen 2019, p. 91 , (1500 copies from the city of Meßstetten) .
  2. ↑ Home history
  3. ^ Alois Gomeringer: Executioner part of everyday life. Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Meßstetten offers an insight into the judicial power of the Werenwager . In: Südkurier of February 26, 2010