Waldburg-Zeil

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Coat of arms of the Waldburg from the Scheibler coat of arms book from 1450 to 1480

Waldburg-Zeil is the name of one of the numerous lines of the originally Welfisch - Hohenstaufen ministerial family Waldburg . Waldburg-Zeil was created in 1595 by dividing the Georgian line into the two lines Waldburg-Wolfegg and Waldburg-Zeil. Like all ruling lines of the Waldburg family in Upper Swabia, Waldburg-Zeil always remained closely connected to the Catholic faith, the Roman Church, the Pope, as well as the Emperor and the Empire. Her ancestral castle is Zeil Castle near Leutkirch in the Allgäu .

Offices and imperial lords of the House of Waldburg-Zeil

Georgian line of the House of Waldburg

Zeil Castle

The Stewards of Waldburg divided in 1429 into three lines. First in the Eberhardische ( Sonnenberger ), the second in the Jakobische ( Trauchburger ) and the third in the Georgian (Zeiler) line. The progenitor of the Georgian line was Truchsess Georg I († 1467), one of the three sons of Count Johann († 1414). The drunkard Georg III known as Bauernjörg . played a decisive role in the suppression of the uprisings in the peasant war . In 1595 it was divided into the lines Waldburg-Wolfegg , Waldburg-Waldburg and Waldburg-Zeil, whereby Waldburg-Waldburg already died out in 1600 and was divided between the remaining lines Waldburg-Wolfegg and Waldburg-Zeil.

A list of the Truchsesse of the Georgian line from 1423 (1429) to the division in 1595 can be found in the article Waldburg-Wolfegg .

Waldburg-Zeil

Zeil Castle near Leutkirch in the Allgäu, 1907

Truchsess Frobenius († 1614), one of the two sons of Jacob von Waldburg († 1589) and Johanna von Zimmer, is considered the actual master of the Waldburg-Zeil family . Frobenius' son Johann Jakob I obtained the dignity of imperial count on September 7, 1628 . After his death in 1674, the Waldburg-Zeil line split again into the Waldburg-Zeil-Zeil branches (or since 1772 now called Waldburg-Zeil-Trauchburg by inheritance) and Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach.

Waldburg-Zeil-Trauchburg

Ruins of Alt-Trauchburg Castle , Isny ​​in the background
Neutrauchburg Castle in Isny

The original house Waldburg-Zeil-Zeil inherited in 1779 the extinct county of Waldburg-Trauchburg and has been called Waldburg-Zeil-Trauchburg ever since.

List of the Counts of Waldburg-Zeil-Zeil:

  • 1674–1684 Paris Jacob
  • 1684–1717 Johann Christoph
  • 1717–1750 Johann Jakob II.
  • 1750–1790 Franz Anton
  • 1790–1806 Maximilian von Waldburg-Zeil , ruling imperial prince from 1803 to 1806

In 1803 the house was raised to the imperial prince status, but mediatized as early as 1806. The greater part of the territory came to Württemberg and a smaller part to Bavaria . In the 19th century, the princes of Waldburg-Zeil-Trauchburg had a mandate each in the first chamber of the Württemberg estates and in the chamber of the imperial councils of the Bavarian state parliament . They belong to the noble houses of the second division of the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility . Prince Maximilian von Waldburg-Zeil and his grandson Constantin von Waldburg-Zeil became particularly politically active, both of whom came into violent conflict with the unpopular Württemberg sovereignty.

Today the family is active in the fields of agriculture and forestry as well as in the media sector through the entrepreneurial activities of Georg von Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg ( Schwäbischer Verlag GmbH & Co. KG with the Schwäbische Zeitung , holdings in the Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag and the Memminger Zeitung ) and in the health sector ( Waldburg-Zeil clinics ).

Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach

Castle in Bad Wurzach
New castle in Kißlegg

Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach was the younger branch of the 1674 division of Waldburg-Zeil.

List of the Counts of Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach:

  • 1674–1700 Sebastian Wunibald
  • 1700–1734 Ernst Jakob
  • 1734–1781 Franz Ernst
  • 1781–1806 Eberhard, since March 21, 1803 Imperial Prince

In 1803 the house as well as Waldburg-Zeil-Trauchburg and Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee were raised to the imperial prince status, but mediatized as early as 1806 . Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach belonged to the noble houses of the second division of the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility with a seat and vote in the First Chamber of the Württemberg Land Estates and in the Chamber of the Imperial Councils of the Bavarian State Parliament . With the death of Eberhard II von Waldburg zu Zeil and Wurzach in 1903, Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach became extinct in the male line. The castle in Bad Wurzach and the New Castle in Kißlegg fell on the main line to Zeil.

Waldburg-Zeil-Lustenau-Hohenems

In 1779 the Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems line was founded by marrying the Hohenems and Lustenau imperial counts. The sovereign state of Lustenau under the ruling Counts Waldburg-Zeil-Lustenau-Hohenems fell to Bavaria after the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, then again to Waldburg-Zeil from 1817 and finally to Austria in 1830 .

Castles and palaces of the Zeiler line

Important representatives of the Zeil line

literature

  • Andreas Dornheim: Nobility in the bourgeois industrialized society. A sociological-historical case study about the Waldburg-Zeil family . Lang, Frankfurt et al. 1993, ISBN 3-631-44859-7 . (also Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 1991)
  • Bernt Engelmann , Günter Wallraff : You up there, we down there. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-462-00937-0 . (= KiWi pocket books; No. 347) (last in 1994 with ISBN 3-462-02376-4 )
  • Walter-Siegfried Kircher: A princely revolutionary from the Allgäu: Prince Constantin von Waldburg-Zeil 1807–1862. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1980, ISBN 3-88006-068-1 .
  • Walter-Siegfried Kircher: Nobility, Church and Politics in Württemberg 1830-1851. Ecclesiastical movement, Catholic gentlemen and democracy . Göppingen 1973, ISBN 3-87452-209-1 . (= Göppingen Academic Contributions; Vol. 79)
  • Walter-Siegfried Kircher: “Catholic above all”? - The Waldburg House and the Catholic Church from the 19th to the 20th century . In: Mark Hengerer, Elmar L. Kuhn (ed. On behalf of the Oberschwaben Society): Adel im Wandel. Upper Swabia from early modern times to the present. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, Vol. 1, ISBN 3-7995-0216-5 , pp. 287-308.
  • Walter-Siegfried Kircher: "Education, ... life, ... good faith". Noble education and Catholic religion in the 19th century . In: Religion needs education - education needs religion. Festschrift for Horst F. Rupp. Edited by Lars Bednorz, Olaf Kühl-Freudenstein, Magdalena Munzert. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-4154-9 , pp. 169-182.
  • Priscilla Waldburg-Zeil: The palace of Hohenems: light and shadow. From the family history of Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems and Schönborn-Wiesentheid . Győr 2004, ISBN 963-86305-9-0 .

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