Waldburg-Capustigall

Waldburg coat of arms from Scheibler's book of arms from 1450–1480

Waldburg-Capustigall Castle

The Waldburg-Capustigall house is a Prussian line of the southern German noble family Waldburg . The name is derived from the family seat in the East Prussian Capustigall (today in Pribreschny ) near the city of Königsberg in Prussia . From 1850 the place was mostly called Waldburg .

The first Prussian Truchsess zu Waldburg was the Teutonic Knight Friedrich von Waldburg (1494–1554), a younger brother of Wilhelm Truchsess von Waldburg, Lord of Trauchburg and Scheer . Like many knights of the order, he joined the Reformation and thus founded an evangelical line of the Waldburg family, which otherwise remained Catholic in all lines to this day.

His successors were:

• Johannes Jakob, 1554–1585
• Wolfgang Heinrich, 1585–1637
• Johannes Albert, 1637–1655
• Abraham, 1637-1638
• Wolfgang Christoph (Imperial Count 1686), 1643–1688
  • Karl Ludwig , 1685–1738
• Joachim Heinrich , 1655–1703
  • Friedrich Sebastian Wunibald , 1677–1745
• Otto Wilhelm I, 1703-1725
• Karl Friedrich, 1703–1722
• Otto Wilhelm II, 1725-1745

Count Truchsess-Waldburg, known from Beethoven's biography, is Friedrich Ludwig III. Count Truchsess zu Waldburg (1776–1844), from 1803–1808 Wuerttemberg envoy in Vienna, from May 1808 in Kassel chief steward of Queen Katharina of Westphalia . In October 1808 the Count made the composer an offer to take over the position of Kapellmeister at the court of Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte in Kassel .

The last imperial count Otto Wilhelm II bequeathed his property to the Waldburg-Bestendorf line , the descendants of a younger brother of Wolfgang Heinrich (1585–1637).

Mathilde Countess Truchsess zu Waldburg (1813-1858) was married to Burgrave Richard Friedrich zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1807-1894). Her descendants, the Counts of Dohna-Schlobitten , managed the Waldburg estate until they were expelled in World War II. The castle was destroyed to the ground, the place was not repopulated after the war.

Mathilde's cousin Gebhard, the last Waldburg-Capustigall, died childless in 1875, with which the Prussian line of traditional food in Waldburg expired.

family members

• Friedrich Ludwig II. Truchsess zu Waldburg (1741–1807), Prussian major general and politician from the Waldburg-Capustigall family

literature

• Hans Graf zu Dohna: Waldburg-Capustigall. An East Prussian castle at the intersection of manor and European history . CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1998, ISBN 3-7980-0536-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Capustigall, Waldburg
2. ^ Constanze von der Goltz: Waldburg Capustigall. Family association of the Burgraves of Dohna, accessed on November 8, 2018 .