Trugenhofen (noble family)
Trugenhofen was the name of a Bavarian noble family .
The ancestral seat of the Lords of Trugenhofen, who were ministerials of the Counts of Graisbach , was Trugenhofen Castle in the Ussel Valley in the middle of the hilly landscape of the southern Franconian Alb .
The exact location of the headquarters is unknown, either on one of the two castle mountains near Trugenhofen or on the Dünsberg . In 1282 a moated castle was built in the middle of the village next to the church (three floors high, with a circular wall and moat), which was also rebuilt at that time. At the end of the 14th century Trugenhofen was appointed Hofmark . In 1593 the line of the Lords of Trugenhofen with Ruland from and to Trugenhofen died out.
Name bearer
- Ernst von Trugenhofen (mentioned 1190), married to Luitgarde von Ellenbrunn
- Marquard von Trugenhofen, built the water castle in the village in 1282 and also moved the parish church to the center of the village
- Ulrich von Trugenhofen, married to Margaret Kästlin, founded the last offspring of the von Rohrbach family
- Ruland von und zu Trugenhofen († 1593), last representative of those von and zu Trugenhofen
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- Population register 1964 city and district Neuburg / Danube