Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg

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Coat of arms of the princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg

The Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg house is one of the two in 1611, after the death of Count Ludwig III. von Löwenstein-Wertheim (* 1530; † 1611), lines of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim acquired through the division of inheritance .

Reason

Map of the county of Wertheim in the 17th century

The house contract statutum gentilicium issued by Ludwig in 1597 granted all of his sons the equal right of succession. Due to this house contract and a different denominational policy of his sons, the house was divided into two main lines, the Lutheran line Löwenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg and the Catholic line Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort. As a result of the house contract of 1597, both lines split into different branches over time.

The Catholic line Rochefort was in 1712 by Emperor Charles VI. Elevated to the rank of prince, the Protestant Virneburg line in 1812 by King Maximilian I of Bavaria.

Since the Napoleonic reorganization of the political map of Europe with Virneburg and Rochefort, the possessions of both lines that gave it their name had been lost, the Protestant line was given the new name Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (named after the Freudenberg rule in Baden ), while the Catholic line has been since then Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg is called. As compensation for the areas on the left bank of the Rhine that were lost to France , the Counts of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg (soon afterwards princes as the Freudenberger Line) received the Triefenstein Monastery , which was dissolved in the course of secularization , and the Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort received the Bronnbach Monastery .

Both lines still exist today. The seat of the princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg is Schloss Kreuzwertheim .

Tribe list

See article Löwenstein-Wertheim

family members

archive

The archive of the Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg line was acquired by the state of Baden-Württemberg with the Löwenstein-Wertheim archives in 1975 and set up as the Wertheim State Archive in the former hospital of Bronnbach Monastery on January 1, 1978 . The Wertheim State Archives keep the records of the Counts of Wertheim, who died out in 1556, and include a joint archive and the two Löwenstein-Wertheim line archives. The Wertheim City Archives were soon incorporated into it. This smaller network paved the way for the Main-Tauber archive network set up on December 7, 1988 under the auspices of the Wertheim State Archives .

literature

  • Hermann Grote : Family Tables. European rulers and princely houses. , Reprint-Verlag, Leipzig 1877. ISBN 978-3826207105 .
  • Harald Stockert: Nobility in transition. The princes and counts of Löwenstein-Wertheim between state rule and class rule. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 3170166050 .
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book together with diplomatic-statistical yearbook 1873, p. 155 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Main-Tauber archive network - Bronnbach Monastery Cultural Office. In: kloster-bronnbach.de. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  2. ^ State archive Wertheim - State archive Baden-Württemberg. In: landesarchiv-bw.de. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Extended magazine inaugurated in the archive network. In: main-tauber-kreis.de. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .