Werenwag Castle

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Werenwag Castle - west side

Werenwag Castle is located on a rock spur in the Upper Danube Valley in the Langenbrunn district , Beuron municipality , in the Sigmaringen district . The castle is now owned by the Fürstenberg family . It is inhabited and not open to the public.

history

Werenwag Castle - east side
Werenwag from the south

Werenwag goes back to a castle from the high Middle Ages . It was created around 1100 and belonged to the noble free von First. The keep dates from the 12th century.

The lords of Werenwag were servants of the Hohenbergers and the Habsburgs in the late Middle Ages . Hugo von Werenwag was a minstrel . In 1303 an Albrecht von Werenwag is documented. Werenwag Castle was the center of power for the Werenwag rulership of the same name . In 1459 Marquard von Werenwag sold Burgstall and the village of Ensisheim to Renhard von Melchingen . In 1629 the Counts of Fürstenberg received the castle, which they sold to the barons of Ulm zu Erbach in 1721. It was not until 1830 that Werenwag came back into the possession of the Prince of Fürstenberg. The castle burned down in 1891, and on November 16, 1911 the castle was damaged in an earthquake in the Albstadt shear zone : the tower and the attached staircase showed large cracks, stone slabs falling from the tower battlements damaged the roof.

Werenwag Castle is the residence of Maximilian Egon zu Fürstenberg's (1896–1959) family branch. His daughter Maria Josepha zu Fürstenberg (1922–2008) was born on April 23, 1922 at the castle. His youngest son Friedrich Maximilian zu Fürstenberg (1926–1969) lived in Werenwag with his wife Teresa Princess zur Lippe-Weißenfeld (1925–2008). She lived here until her death on July 16, 2008. On May 14, 1989, Friedrich Maximilian's daughter Teresa Sophia Antoinette zu Fürstenberg (* 1960) married the Italian Angelo Giuseppe Bucarelli (* 1952) in the palace chapel. The castle is currently inhabited by son Maximilian Joachim zu Fürstenberg (* 1962), who is also the owner of the Villa Hammerschmiede in Thiergarten .

coat of arms

Werenwag coat of arms, Scheiblersches Wappenbuch, approx. 1450

The von Werenwag men had a zigzag bar in their coat of arms . In Scheibler's book of arms and Siebmacher's book of arms, black on a gold background, the crest with a brackish trunk of the same name . This coat of arms is now used by the communities of Schwenningen and Kolbingen , the hamlet of Hartheim (Meßstetten) and Unterdigisheim as a district of Meßstetten.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Werenwag. In: Günter Schmitt: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 165–176.
  • Joseph Stöckle : Werenwag in the Donauthale. With the addition: Excerpts and comments from the tourist books. Edited from the sources . Karl Willi printing works, Meßkirch 1893.
  • Louise Otto-Peters , Die Nachtigall von Werawag (novel in four volumes), Freiburg 1887.

Web links

Commons : Werenwag  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: The Werawag Nightingale  - Poem by Louise Otto

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sandra Häusler (saw): View of the beautiful home . In: Südkurier of September 9, 2011
  2. ↑ See the state of Baden-Württemberg: official description by districts and communities. Volume 7: Tübingen administrative region . Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1978. ISBN 3-17-004807-4
  3. ↑ Holdings Ho156 T1 Nr3 on Landesarchiv-BW.de
  4. ↑ Collection Ho156 T1 Nr16
  5. ↑ Siebmacher's Wappenbuch 1701, Volume 3, Plate 117
  6. ↑ Armin Heim: "... wild but sublime rock and forest chaos ..." The discovery of the Upper Danube Valley as an art and cultural landscape . In: Swabian homeland . No. 2018/1 , p. 9 - 16 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 34 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 57 ″  E